Mosyk

Mosyk are a reptilian species marked by green scaled skin, a bone-like shelf across the back of the skull, and three thick fingers on each hand. They are among the newest species in the galaxy's record — documented in so few places that a single Jedi Master accounts for nearly everything known about them.

The build is unmistakably saurian. Their skin is green and scaled, and the back of the head carries a bony structure of the sort the Vurk are better known for, a solid shelf running across the rear of the skull. Their hands end in three fingers rather than five, which changes how a Mosyk grips a tool or a hilt without appearing to slow them down.

**Their homeworld has never been named.** The one Mosyk on record spent the years we know about in hiding on Janix, a Mid Rim world well out of Imperial sight, and nothing in the sources says whether he was born there or simply ended up there. Anyone running a Mosyk character has an unusual amount of freedom about where they came from, because the galaxy has not decided yet.

That one Mosyk is **Eeko-Dio Daki**, a Jedi Master who survived Order 66. He went to ground with his Padawan, the Twi'lek Devon Izara, and the two of them lived quietly on Janix by 17 BBY — his blue lightsaber hidden, a makeshift cane in his hand, answering to "Uncle Daki". Izara was arrested trying to steal food for him, at a point when her master was still insisting that strangers could be relied on to help. He is described as traditional and long-lived, and as a fierce duelist when it finally comes to that.

The species was created for *Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord* and identified by name through StarWars.com, where the production nickname for Daki — "Dino Jedi" — also surfaced. Expect the record to grow: this is a species with a running series behind it rather than an archive entry.

As a player character, a Mosyk is hard to put down and slow to start. **Scaled Hide** and **CON +1** make you durable, **Occipital Crest** can turn the one hit that would have ended you into an ordinary one, and **WIS +1** suits a patient temperament. The cost is **Slow to Violence**: you do not reach for a weapon first, and you pay for that at the top of every fight. Where the sources stop, this page says so: the mechanical kit below is our reading of the published biology and culture, not established game canon.

Mosyk are reptilian, with green scaled skin across the body, and they stand a little shorter than most Humans — around 1.5 meters, so a Mosyk in a crowd is looking up at the people around them. The most distinctive feature is the head: a bone-like structure runs across the back of the skull, the same broad family of cranial shelf the Vurk carry, giving the profile a heavy, back-weighted look that a shorter frame only emphasises.

Their hands have three fingers each rather than the usual five. It is enough for a hilt, a tool or a cane, and nothing in the record suggests it holds them back, though it does mean Mosyk gear tends to be built to a different grip than most species use.

(Assumption: no source gives a height range, a weight range, or an age of majority. We place the species a little shorter than Human average, around 1.5 meters. Long life is attributed to the one documented Mosyk rather than established for the species.)

Almost everything recorded about Mosyk temperament comes from a single person, which is worth saying plainly. Eeko-Dio Daki is described as traditional and long-lived, patient, and formidable when a fight finally arrives — a Jedi who kept his blade hidden for years and leaned on a cane instead.

**We read the species as peaceable, slow to reach for a weapon and inclined to assume the best of strangers.** That is our reading rather than published canon; its thin support is Daki's insistence, while hiding from an Empire actively hunting him, that the strangers around them could be relied on to help. The trait **Slow to Violence** follows from that reading, and a GM who prefers a different Mosyk temperament is on perfectly solid ground.

For an adventuring Mosyk, that makes for a distinctive shape: durable, watchful, unhurried, and usually the last one at the table to suggest shooting. They tend to be the character who talks while everyone else is drawing, and who is still standing when the shooting stops.