Tyia
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- "Think of peace and honor – and act upon that only!"
- ―A Tyia student, name unknown[src]
The Tyia was a faith, a philosophy, and a way of knowing the Force. It taught of holding a high regard for peace and life. It came to the planet Revyia around 30 BBY, after an independent freighter brought a missionary of the Tyia faith to the planet. Its message appealed to the indigenous Revwiens, and became widely accepted amongst them, to such a degree that the Tyia was widely seen as native to that culture.
Tyia practitioners were known as Thuwisten, taking their name from the Tyia's prime tenet that one should seek "personal harmony with one's own Tyia so that other Tyia forces may join to form a bond-circle, a joining of spirits called 'Thuwisten', complete in their utter harmony." Indeed, Thuwisten believed that individual introspection was key to knowing the ways of the universe.
Tyia-practicing Force users were taught to control their personal Force through ceremony and meditation. Their focus on their inner Force resulted in Thuwisten having a heightened awareness of the skill the Jedi knew as "Control"; however, a Thuwisten found the use of the "Alter" ability to be a more difficult and time-consuming practice than the Jedi. Nonetheless, many Thuwisten regarded the Jedi as true masters of the Tyia.
Palpatine studied their methods in his quest to gain full mastery of the dark side.
