These Drengir are a well-deserved harvest for a farmer such as you." ―Iren, to the counter-altruistic farmer Menir If you pour bitterness into something, it bears only bitter fruit. But instead you offered only hatred and fear. " You might have had bounty if you'd only shown a little kindness. The creatures persuaded sentient captives to join their collective consciousness, successfully doing so on those who were vulnerable to the influence of the dark side of the Force. The sentients operated in a group, sharing a collective mind with other Drengir of the same group and completing each other's sentences like bond-twins. When cut in half by a lightsaber, a single Drengir could survive with two bodies. Capable of speaking Galactic Basic Standard, the species were able to heal from most wounds inflicted by blasters or lightsabers quickly, although they were killed when exposed to the vacuum of space. With manes of leaves and vines and horrific spurs of wood for limbs, the creatures seemed like sentient trees, and were were easily mistaken as such by other sentients. To the human Batuuan farmer Menir, the carnivores were monstrous and hulking figures, with their jaws seen as wicked and their face pale in the moonlight. The Drengir threatened the Jedi Knights during the era of the High Republic. The Drengir also captured sentients, strangling them with tentacles that reached into their bodies through their ears, nostrils, and mouth, and took children's vitality, draining away their very life. With innately warlike ways, the plant-like sentients fed life-forms such as wampas directly into their maws. With a voracious hunger, the ancient and twisted mounds of greenery perceived all other life-forms as food, preferring to consume their prey alive. Īs with plants, the Drengir spawned from seeds, taking root and growing to towering masses within only a couple of days of being planted. Plants were also affected by the Drengir's presence the branches of plants near the creatures curled away, tainted and blackened. The latter secreted deadly poisons, and the mere presence of the Drengir inspired dread, casting an intent and focused " shadow" that was perceivable by sentients, even those not attuned to the currents of the Force. With color in various hues of green and brown and an array of teeth, they possessed numerous tentacles and thorns. Meat." ―A Drengir, hungry for Jedi Ī wampa falls victim to the maw of a towering Drengir.Īn amorphous carnivorous sentient species that resembled plants, the Drengir (pronounced / dʒɹɛnˈɡɪər/) were born of darkness, hatred, and pain. In 232 BBY, Jedi Master Sskeer's fate became inescapably linked to the Drengir on Sedri Minor. Reflecting hues of green, the plant-like carnivores pursued their purpose of consuming life on worlds such as Batuu and Sedri Minor, deceiving farmers and kidnapping children ruining crops and carving hideouts underground ransacking villages and feasting on humans and non-humans alike. In the aftermath of the Great Hyperspace Disaster, the Drengir spread in search of food, although they lacked the scheming nature and power structure of the anarchistic Nihil marauders that battled the Galactic Republic. When seared in half by the blade of a lightsaber, a Drengir could simply reform with two animated bodies. With an aptitude for healing, the Drengir were largely impervious to the scorches of blasters and singes of lightsabers. Those defenders of light and life feared the Drengir as meat was their sole desire, and they spread a darkness so great it perturbed and swayed Jedi Knights into their own collective mind, inflaming the chaos and imbalance upon which the Drengir thrived. With twisted tentacles and a maw arrayed with teeth, the avaricious creatures shared a collective consciousness that could dominate and corrupt other minds-even those of Jedi. The Drengir (pronounced / dʒɹɛnˈɡɪər/) were a plant-like species of sentient, amorphous carnivores from the Wild Space planet Mulita who threatened to reap harvest across the Galactic Frontier during the High Republic Era. " Nourish us or be one with us…the choice is yours." ―A Drengir gives Keeve Trennis an ultimatum
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