Lurval was a Talz male (gender) who made his home on Tatooine during the era of the Galactic Civil War. Following the Battle of Yavin, he could be found in Mos Eisley, employed at the Spaceport Cantina. During the year 1 ABY, Chalmun, the cantina's proprietor, took on a waiter whose clumsiness resulted in shattered glasses. Gendra, a friend seeking to assist Chalmun, engaged a trader to produce some new glasses. This spacer then fashioned seven glasses and personally delivered them to Lurval at the cantina.
Lurval appeared as a non-player character within the video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game that was launched in 2003. The game was developed by Sony Online Entertainment and distributed by LucasArts, before its servers were shut down on December 15, 2011. Lurval's inclusion in the game occurred with the arrival of "Publish 25," also referred to as the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.