Tiriyin

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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 Tiriyin summarizing the central tenet of Dzworutwokun

Tiriyin (/ˈtiːˌriːˌjɪn/ TEE-ree-yihn)&mdash;occasionally addressed with a toponymic surname as Tiriyin Tûndanjat ("Tiriyin from Tund"), commonly referenced in conjunction with the Sith language epithet "Tsistaral" as Tiriyin Tsistaral ("Tiriyin, Protector of the Sith"), and variously known as Adasyuntok ("Adas the Second") and Tsiskratijqorittok ("the last Sith King")&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 and the Sith survivors of Korriban as Sith King during the Republic counterinvasion that followed the Great Hyperspace War and the Sith Empire's collapse.

Tiriyin 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 Dzworutwokun 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, Tiriyin 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, Tiriyin 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, Thule, Tund, and Vjun.

Despite a string of successful evacuations, Tiriyin 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, Tiriyin was revered by both the vestigial Kissai and Massassi communities of Korriban and the Thulese civilization of Thule for millennia, 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.

Behind the scenes
Though originally named "Karos" in reference to both Firedance's Karros and the members of the Sakaros family that together inspired its creation, the character subsequently evolved in scope and was renamed to "Tiriyin" in reference to three characters from other creative works and franchises that influenced the author in the renewed development of the narrative away from its previous iteration. Tiriyin's status as the last king of a dying civilization was derived from the character of Tirian from The Last Battle, his humorous disposition and sense of cunning were inspired by Tyrion Lannister from the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and his philosophical bent and interest in exploring the nature of the Force were influenced by Sakaros's Tirien Kal-Di from the untitled New Sith Wars series.