Under-Dweller

Under-Dwellers were a massive species that lived in caves beneath the surface of Planet X but longed to escape. They were adverse to light, but were able to withstand it. The creatures had a set of jaws lined with sharp teeth under a cluster of black eyeballs.

While on a mission to retrieve eggs of the Nameless species, members of the Path of the Open Hand cult were attacked by one of the creatures after they retrieved many eggs from the walls of the caves beneath the planet. A Force-sensitive Ovissian member of the cult's team named Bokana Koss sensed the creature using the Force and claimed they were connected to a coming blight, warning they wanted to chain the Force itself and claiming that the Under-Dwellers actually wanted them to escape to begin the blight. After killing a member of the team named Galamal by stabbing her with its barbed tongue and eating her, the Under-Dweller followed the team to the surface, where it was attacked by and fought another large being called the protector. The protector also attempted to stop the Path's escape from Planet X, but Koss, who shook off the terror brought on by the vision after the Under-Dweller had attacked, sacrificed himself to hold it off. By 228 BBY, the blight foretold by Koss was spreading in the galaxy proper because of the Nameless being stolen away from their homeworld.

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