Unidentified Ewok chief An Ewok chieftain acted as the leader of an Ewok village located on the forest moon of Endor around 19 BBY . The Ewok and his village were constantly under threat from a massive beast they called the Beast in the Mouth of the Mountain . During the last year of the Clone Wars , a galactic event that the Ewoks were not involved in , the droid armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems arrived on the forest moon during a stage of the war known as the Outer Rim Sieges . The droid armies built an outpost on the moon , but were eventually discovered by the clone armies of the Galactic Republic . The Republic sent a detachment of clone troopers to the forest moon , but soon lost contact with the clones . When a Republic gunship arrived to investigate , the Ewok chieftain sent his scouts to investigate the new set of Republic forces . When they returned , they brought with them the Jedi Knight Aayla Secura , who had accompanied the clones . The chieftain requested that Secura go and defeat the Beast in the Mouth of the Mountain , as it had been responsible for the death of her clone troopers and the destruction of the droids . Secura accepted the mission and fought the beast , killing it in combat . Biography . Sometime during the final decades of the Galactic Republic , an Ewok male came into power of an Ewok village located on the forest moon of Endor . However , not all was well during the time , as a giant creature loomed as a threat to the village , living not to far away from the village up in a mountain cave . They dubbed it the Beast in the Mouth of the Mountain . Meanwhile , the rest of the galaxy was caught up in an event known as the Clone Wars . During the final year of the war , 19 BBY , the droid armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems arrived on the forest moon as a part of a stage in the war known as the Outer Rim Sieges . The droids built an outpost on the moon , but were eventually discovered by the clone armies of the Republic . The Republic , in response to the remote outpost , sent a clone recon squad to scout out the outpost . The clone troopers arrived on the moon and eventually found the droid outpost . A struggle ensued , but it was soon broken up with the appearance of the Beast in the Mouth of the Mountain . The droids and clones were both wiped out completely , as their blaster weapons were of no use against the Beast . The Beast had destroyed the droids , while abducting the bodies of the clone troopers , leaving their armor behind . The Ewok chieftain investigated the carnage himself , and brought back a damaged clone trooper helmet , which he used to ornate a staff with . With the recon squad having dropped contact , however , the Republic sent yet another scouting team to find out what had happened . This time the Republic sent Jedi General Aayla Secura along with her clone trooper commander Bly . The Ewok chieftain , in response to the new arrivals , sent several Ewok scouts to investigate . After arriving , Secura went off into the woods by herself to investigate the recon squad ' s disappearance . She encountered a B1 battle droid , and swiftly removed its arms and legs with her lightsaber . However , before she could gather any information , the chieftain ' s Ewok scouts apprehended Secura , with the use of poison darts , and the battle droid . Bringing the two back the village , the Ewoks waited for Secura to wake up , as the poison had rendered her unconscious , while they explained to the battle droid their situation , as the battle droid could understand the Ewok language . When Secura woke up , she first noticed the chieftain ' s clone trooper helmet adorned staff and was quick to suspect the Ewoks of wiping out her clones . The battle droid quickly defused the confrontation by explaining what the Ewoks had told him about the Beast in the Mouth of the Mountain . The Ewoks had captured Secura as they had believed her to be a forest spirit , sent to help them to defeat the Beast . Secura decided to accept the mission to dispatch the beast , and the Ewok chieftain provided a scout to guide her to the beast ' s lair . Secura also brought the droid with her , strapping him to her back against his wish . The Ewoks guided her to the mountain where the beast resided and began to scale the mountain as the scout waited for her below . Arriving to the mouth of the cave that served as the Beast ' s lair , Secura entered with he lightsaber drawn and soon found the skeletal remains of the clone troopers . The beast attacked moments afterwards and destroyed the battle droid with a massive foot . Aayla Secura managed to defeat the beast by cutting stalactites off of the roof of the cave , which then impaled the giant arachnid Beast and killed it . Secura left the mountain , leaving the Ewoks to recover the droid ' s cranium . The Ewok chieftain received the cranium and created a new staff with it . As the Republic gunship left the forest moon , the chieftain was well through a painting that recounted the battle between Secura , the droid , and the Beast , forever cementing the event in Ewok history . Personality and traits . The Ewok was dedicated to his village to lead it in times of trouble , such as the lifespan of the Beast that they feared . The Ewok believed in forest spirits , and believed Aayla Secura to be one upon sighting her . The Ewok believed that sending Secura to fight the Beast would be the correct choice of action in handling the Beast , and in the end his course of action proved successful . The Ewok would also record events of Ewok history through painting . The Ewok was covered black fur and had black skin and black eyes . He adorned himself with an ornate headdress constructed from feathers and the skull of an animal . Behind the scenes . The Ewok first appeared in " What Goes Up . . . " , a short comic collected in " " and written and illustrated by the Fillbach Brothers . The events of the comic were later in referenced in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , by Daniel Wallace , Pablo Hidalgo , Stephen J . Sansweet and Bob Vitas .