Turind

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"Dzwol wo hadzuskak Qyâsikottoi yun, koshwai kosh&mdash;dzwol Qyâsik wokun. Chwitokka hyalûshsaaraikut tashdzwolutyun."

- Sith language extract from the writings of Turind summarizing the central tenet of Dzwolutwokun

Turind (/ˈtuːˌriːnd/ TOO-reend)&mdash;commonly referenced in conjunction with the Sith language epithet "Tsistaral" as Turind Tsistaral ("Turind, Protector of the Sith")&mdash;was a male Sith Offshoot of the House of Tund who served the old Sith Empire as the presiding feudal Sith Lord of Tund during the Golden Age of the Sith, fought in the Great Hyperspace War, and died on Korriban during the Republic counterinvasion that followed.

Turind was widely regarded as one of the foremost philosophers of the Force and most prolific scholars of the post–Hundred-Year Darkness period. He was best known for the Dzwolutwokun philosophy, a monist Unifying Force offshoot that taught that light and dark side alignment were characteristics of Force users rather than the Force itself. He was also notable for the Qotaral, a divisive work of political philosophy that was critical of the kratocratic individualism that characterized prevailing Tsisajak ("Sith doctrine") and instead proposed a collectivist form of government for the old Sith Empire.

Apart from his academic career, Turind was notable for his participation in the Great Hyperspace War and the Republic counterinvasion of the Sith Empire that followed. Fearing that the invaders intended to systematically exterminate the Sith species, Turind assembled the Tsistararkut, a paramilitary resistance movement that rescued Sith refugees from the conflict, disease, and famine that characterized the war-torn Sith Worlds and resettled them on the outlying colonies of Ambria, Dromund Kaas, Korriban, Thule, Tund, and Vjun.

Despite a string of successful evacuations, Turind and the Tsistararkut met their end during the third battle of Korriban, self-sacrificially giving their lives to help acting Dark Lord Shar Dakhan drive Republic forces out of the Horuset system. Though largely overshadowed by his contemporaries and unknown to later historians of the Manderon Period, Turind was revered by both the vestigial Kissai and Massassi communities of Korriban well into the Old Sith Wars period, and his treatises on the nature of the Force as a single entity bereft of opposing sides served as the foundation upon which the Sorcerers of Tund built their philosophical hermetica in subsequent millennia.

Origins
The Sith-Human half-breed known as Turind was born in the city of Tund on the planet of the same name as the only child of Tullin, head of the noble House of Tund[sw] and the presiding Sith Lord of Tund, and his wife Kamurantha, a Sith sorceress of the Kissai priest caste  hailing from the Sith species's ancestral homeworld of Korriban. Turind was known to have been born sometime after the death of Dark Lord Tulak Hord and prior to the ascension of Dark Lord Marka Ragnos to the rulership of the Sith Empire as its presiding Jen'ari ("Dark Lord" ). Like his contemporaries Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow, Turind was old enough in 5100 BBY to recall firsthand the details of Ragnos's brief and brutal campaign of conquest over the Sith Empire and the final duel between Ragnos and Simus that decided the victor of the war of succession and heralded the dawn of the Golden Age of the Sith.

Though not part of the Kissai priest caste, Turind was genetically a member of the Sith subspecies of the same name, related by blood to both the original Kissai residents of Tund through his father and the Kissai priests that served the ruling caste of Sith Lords in the greater Sith Empire through his mother. As such, he exhibited his species's strong Force sensitivity and natural affinity for the dark side  in addition to a number of physical characteristics and collectivist personality traits for which the ruling caste of Sith Lords had selectively bred the Kissai for centuries. Despite his Kissai blood, Turind was considered a noble of the Sith ruling caste on account of his membership in the House of Tund and his proven relation to those Human Dark Jedi Exiles who had chosen to mate with the Sith in the years following the formation of the Sith Empire in 6900 BBY. Turind's membership in the House of Tund enabled him to claim patrilineal descent from the Human Jen'jidai Baron Remulus Dreypa and his alleged Kissai lover. Additionally, his Human blood was likewise derived from the Tapani refugees of House Nidantha who had wandered into the Empire in the aftermath of the Unification War and subsequently interbred with the Sith  over a period of centuries.