Eodon Eodons were a species of sentient pachydermoid s found on the Forest Moon of Endor . They were large beings with blue - gray skin and prehensile trunks , but — at least to most other inhabitants of Endor — they were most noted for their long , ornate tusks . The Ewoks of Bright Tree Village , for example , believed that Eodon tusks held magic al powers and great beauty . That meant that Eodons had to put up with others desiring their tusks , a fact that one member of the species discovered sometime before 3 ABY . That Eodon ' s tusks ended up in the possession of a merchant named Mooth , who put them up for sale in his trading post . The Eodon eventually traveled to Mooth ' s post to demand the tusks be returned , and a group of four young Ewoks , who had recently won them from the trader , dutifully complied . Biology and appearance . Eodons were large , sentient pachydermoid s who stood tall enough to see through the window of a two - story dwelling . The neck and head lay horizontally in front of the body , protruding from a raised and ridged back bone . The rest of the body was covered in blue - gray skin that lightened under the trunk and inside the ears . Each member of the species had a large head with two bony projections at the top . Below these were two sunken , pink eyes flanked by two wide , flat ears . Below the eyes lay a long trunk , whose dexterity made it useful for manipulating the environment and whose two narrow , pink nostrils made it functional for respiration . Below the trunk was a wide mouth from which a loud , booming voice projected . From that orifice also came two long , hollow , tusks . These were colored brown at the base but became ivory white with a few brown spots as they curved toward one last line of brown a few centimeters from a sharp tip . Ewoks in particular held Eodon tusks to be exotic and beautiful . Society and culture . At least a few Eodons lived on the Forest Moon of Endor , where they had relations with other sentients , such as the trader Mooth . They were known to the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village , among whom their tusks were rumored to have magic al powers and great beauty and were thus highly sought - after commodities . That could prove an annoyance , as Eodons had to put up with others desiring their tusks when they themselves might greatly wish to keep them for themselves . Eodons were capable of learning and speaking Ewokese . History . In 3 ABY , one of Endor ' s Eodons lost its tusks , which eventually ended up in the possession of a trader named Mooth . The merchant put the tusks up for sale at his trading post , and eventually , a group of young Ewoks — Wicket W . Warrick , Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka , Latara , and Teebo — saw them and asked for them . Mooth was ill at the time and , seeing an opportunity to move even more merchandise , offered the Eodon tusks to the Ewok who sold the most of his goods that day . After the Ewoks competed , Mooth still found it difficult to declare a winner , leading the Ewoks to squabble amongst themselves for the prize . The Eodon to whom the tusks had once belonged arrived , however , and reclaimed the tusks for itself . Behind the scenes . An Eodon appears in " Hard Sell , " an episode of the " " animated series , written by Michael Reaves , which first aired on October 25 , 1986 , during the show ' s second season . Although the cartoon suggests several possible uses for Eodon tusks , it reveals very little information on the species itself . The unidentified Eodon is played by an uncredited voice actor . Existing sources fail to mention from where Endor ' s Eodons ultimately hailed . However , the sourcebook " Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds " suggests that only Ewoks and Yuzzums evolved on the Forest Moon . Meanwhile , another source , " Castaways of Endor " , includes Duloks as a native species and suggests that many of Endor ' s other sentient denizens arrived there from offworld . These sources and the article " Endor and the Moddell Sector " reveal that shipwrecks were particularly common on the moon due to a cloak of space detritus and a massive gravity shadow cast by the gas giant Endor .