Editing Tyia (section)

===PHILOSOPHY===

"Tyia" is the Revwien word for "breath." Tyia is the spark of life that all living creatures have. All creatures that breathe have some measure of power in the Tyia. As long as there is life in the galaxy, there will be Tyia. Students of the Tyia spend their time in he wilderness to experience how all life is connected. The prey eats the plant. The predator eats the prey. The predator dies and his remains feed the plant. All things reflect this cycle. Students of the Tyia learn to reach out through these connections and alter the world around them.

Things moving normally are referred to as "Harmony." Harmony is akin to the light side, and most students of the Tyia strive for Harmony. They mediate disputes, heal those not ready to die, and do what they can to keep peace In the galaxy. When the dark side intervenes the Tyia falls into Discord. The Fall of the Republic was hastened by the Discord of Palpatine. Anakin Skywalker succumbed to his Discord because he could not be both a Jedi and husband to Padme Amidala.

Conflict is part of life. Though students of the Tyia do not carry liqhtsabers, they know that predators hunt prey and war is a natural step in the evolution of the galaxy. While those who study the Tyia revere all life, they also battle those who would destroy it. They prefer to use Force abilities to knock down and immobilize opponents rather than pick up a blaster to do so. If there is no alternative the Tyia would still rather stun and enemy than kill it. Killing, even in defense, is a quick path to Discord. Those students who fall from the path of the Tyia are given no name. They are believed to have lost the right to call themselves anything because of their Discord. Revwien who fall to the dark side take on a shriveled cast. Their voices become whispers of fallen leaves. They long to break out of the endless cycle of the Tyia and often want to take as many others with them as possible. The fallen student of Tyia looks to destroy and disrupt. There are places on Revwia where the earth is black and nothing grows. These are the places where Harmony and Discord have battled. Discord never fully wins in the end, but it often extracts a great price when it loses.

====Membership====

Although practitioners of Tyia are usually Revwien, Force sensitive members of other species can embrace the philosophies of the Tyia and become practitioners of this Force tradition as well.

Tyia teaches that individual introspection is the way to learn the true way of the universe — students are taught to control their own personal Force (called "Tyia") through meditation and ceremony. Because of the unique way in which the Tyia studies the Force, there are some special rules regarding its use:

*A Tyia student learning '''Control''' at 1D automatically learns [[Hibernation Trance]] and [[Emptiness]] (which is Easy difficulty for Tyia). The character learns an additional three '''Control''' powers.
*All '''Alter''' powers have their difficulty increased by one level.

All powers have minimum ''time to use'' of one minute.