Ty Yorrick, formerly known as Tylera Yorrick, was a female Tholothian Force-sensitive monster hunter and saber-for-hire who lived during the High Republic Era. A former Jedi Padawan, Yorrick departed the Jedi Order and came to work as a mercenary, being part of a band led by Caratoo for a time. She crossed paths with the Jedi again when she came to the Republic Fair on Valo while working as a bodyguard for Mantessa and Klerin Chekkat.

Biography[]

Training on Alaris Prime[]

Tylera Yorrick^[6] was a Force-sensitive Tholothian who lived during the High Republic Era. As a child, she was inducted into the Jedi Order, eventually becoming a Padawan and apprenticing under Azumel Jedi Master Cibaba who taught her how to construct her lightsaber. She also also befriended a fellow Padawan, Klias Teradine who she lived with on Alaris Prime with alongside her master. During a sparring match, Teradine suggested that she had was too meek and timid and needed to be more like him. She surprised him with a leg sweep, knocking him down. Later, Teradine convinced Yorrick to go with him to Mount Bikja to a Yallow Fellowship sanctum. As they were leaving, Yorrick pulled Teradine into a side passage to avoid a Jedi. The two padawans joined hands and left to climb the mountain.^[7]

As the pair climbed the mountain, Teradine told Yorrick that he wanted to find out the Yallow secrets so he could study them and be a better Jedi. When Yorrick lost her grip and started to fall, Teradine caught her by anchoring himself to the mountainside using a force technique from the Sabracci Sages. The finished their climb and entered the shrine. Yorrick saved Teradine from impalement after he tripped a booby trap.^[8] Deeper in the shrine, Teradine discovered artifacts including a Yallow soothsaber and a vitalicron. Yorrick attempted to persuade her friend to leave the artifacts as it would be dangerous and immoral to take them from the shrine.^[9] Teradine examined the vitalcron and was exposed to its contents when it unlocked in his hands. He was taken over by the Yallow and attacked Yorrick. She attempted to help him but was forced to kill him.^[10] After the incident, Tylera left the Jedi Order.^[1]

Being a monster hunter[]

Becoming known as Ty Yorrick, she eventually went into mercenary work, joining a band led by the Kerk Caratoo, whom she later killed after a betrayal. She spent almost a decade working as a monster hunter, becoming known as the "Saber for Hire" as well. At some point, a Weequay cut off one of her head-tendrils with a knife.^[1]

In 232 BBY,^[11] the Drengir, a species of sentient carnivorous plants which hungered for the meat of other beings, were awakened from a long slumber.^[12] Yorrick initially disbelieved the reports and laughed them off. However, during a hunt on Galidraan for a batarikan snake, she learned otherwise when she found her quarry infested by a root system. The discovery that many of the locals had also been killed by the Drengir meant she also did not get paid for the job, something her droid KL-03 lamented.^[1]

Mission to Blarrum[]

Three months before the Valo Republic Fair was to be held, Yorrick was involved in a mission on Blarrum which brought her closer to encountering the Jedi than she had in quite some time. Yorrick travelled to Blarrum where she was hired by Triv Blago to capture a gundark. During the fight, Yorrick was knocked away by the beast. She landed in a clearing where she found a Segredo youth who had followed her. Unfortunately, the gundark attacked and Yorrick was forced to kill it to save the youth. She returned to Kul Kenada Spaceport where she noticed a pair of Jedi. Avoiding them, she met with Blago and showed him the decapitated head of the gundark. He angrily confronted her, stating that he hired her to capture the creature alive. Before they could argue any more, the Jedi showed up to arrest Blago. Blago's gang fired at the Jedi, and Yorrick created a distraction so she could flee. Blago followed her but she knocked him to the ground. She fled on her speeder as the beast-trader was arrested. She boarded her ship and left the planet.^[7]

Hunting an monster on Loreth[]

Once in space, KL-03 explained to her that the ship desperately needed repairs and upgrades, and advised her to find another paying job. She gave her two options, and Yorrick used her Verazeen stones to decide on which one to take. The stones told her to take the job on Loreth. She landed on the planet and was met by Layton Wyke. He introduced her to his colleague, Tapel, and explained that their colony was being attacked by a gretalax. While trying to decide if to take the job, she was knocked down by Wyke's niece, Pela. Wyke explained that Pela had been injured in the gretalax attack when she was exposed to rhydonium fumes. Standing back up, Yorrick used the Varazeen stones to determine if she should take the job. She ended up taking the job, and mounted a lyuna to take her to the top of Temple Peak.^[8]

As she ascended, Yorrick detected the presence of someone. She located the being and chased it into a spider web. A Rock Weaver came out of a cave and advanced towards Yorrick. The rock weaver shot webbing in Yorrick's face, blinding and suffocating her. She thought back to her Jedi training, when her master taught her how to use the Force to tame an animal. She was unable to join with the rock weaver, but did manage to scare it off by causing an avalanche. KL-03 communicated to her over the comlink and informed her that rock weaver webbing could be removed with sound waves. The droid advised her to use her sonic cutter at level three. Yorrick was able to remove the webbing from her face and then used it to get rid of the webbing on the being she had detected earlier. The unknown individual was freed, but was still invisible. Yorrick trapped them with a bolo and told them to reveal themselves. She found out it was the Segredo child from Blarrum who had snuck onto her ship. He introduced himself as Drewen Qweebjillan and explained he was following Yorrick because he wanted to be trained as a Jedi. She refused and sent him back down the mountain by himself. Yorrick changed her mind and found Drewen. She told him he could camp overnight with her but had to leave in the morning. As she set up camp, he told her his life story. Later that night, the lyuna got spooked and ran off. Yorrick awoke and sensed that someone was coming. She was again attacked by Pela, who drew a blaster and shot at her. She deflected the blast with her lightsaber, but it went back towards Pela. The girl was startled and stumbled off the cliff. Yorrick attempted to catch her using the Force, but wa unable to hold the girl. She sat on the edge of the cliff and mourned her inability to save the girl. The next morning, Drewen started to leave but Yorrick told him he could stay, mostly due to the fact that the lyuna had run off and she needed someone to carry the supplies.^[8]

The pair continued to climb the mountain, looking for the monster's lair. Yorrick lost her footing and fell off the path, but saved herself by jamming her lightsaber hilt into the mountainside. She took Drewen's hand and flung him across a chasm and joined him on the other side. They arrived at the lair and Yorrick gave Drewen a glowrod but refused to provide him a weapon. Deeper in the cave, they were attacked by the gretalax. Yorrick attempted to bond with the gretalax to calm it down but was tossed aside, losing her lightsaber. She attempted to avoid the attacks and call the lightsaber back to her hand. While difficult, she managed to do it but it caused the floor of the cave to collapse, dropping her and gretalax into a pit. She and the beast were trapped under rubble, and Yorrick found herself surrounded by rock weavers. They didn't attack and started to help clear the debris, freeing her. Drewn jumped down with her saber and confronted the spiders, but Yorrick stopped him when she realized they were being controlled by the gretalax. She took her saber from Drewen, warning him that no-one was allowed to touch it. She again attempted to bond with the gretalax and was surprised when the creature created the bond itself. She was able to see its memories of the attack on Wyke Town and realize the truth that the gretalax had not been the aggressor.^[9]

Yorrick returned to Wyke Town where she confronted Wyke about him capturing the lax which caused the greta to attack in an attempt to free its partner. While talking to Wyke, she was stunned by Tapel. Wyke hung her above a large shredder and explained his plan of crushing the gretalax horns to make a potion that would make his group powerful. He decided to use Yorrick's body as a substitute but she revealed she had a group of rock weavers who attacked the settlers, allowing Drewen to recover Yorrick's lightsaber from Wyke and return it to the monster hunter. She freed herself from the chains and destroyed the shredding machine. She chased down Wyke and forced him to confess his crimes. They were broadcast by KL-03 to the entire settlement, causing Wyke to be embarrassed and lose stature. Yorrick returned to see the gretalax reunite and use their Force healing ability on each other and then Pela. She decided to leave Loreth and gave her Verazeen stones to Drewen, telling him that she would start to make her own decisions. She told Drewen that she preferred to work alone and left him with Pela and the other settlers. As she flew away, KL-03 told her that she could have brought Drewen with them, but Yorrick didn't want to discuss it. She went to the back of the ship and trained with several training remotes.^[10]

Safrifa[]

Later, on Safrifa, Yorrick successfully rescued the son of a local marsh-lord from a rival clan. Having been paid in novian ore, she planned to visit an armorer on Keldooine who could turn the ore into new saw blades. While she reminisced about a botched job on Alzoc III after repairing her ship, she was approached by local Safrifan farmers, who complimented her ship. They asked for its name, and Ty replied that it didn't have one, as she didn't like forming attachments with things that couldn't get attached to her. The farmers offered her novian ore, explaining that a monster was destroying their crops and killing their children. They said that they had been laying traps for the past three weeks, but the monster had destroyed them. Yorrick asked the farmers where she could find the monster, them saying that it lived in the Sorcan Swamp, a three days' hike from her ship. Despite feeling that the job wasn't worth it, Ty decided to help the farmers.^[1]

The monster terrorizing the Safrifan farmers turned out to be a Drengir, which eventually managed to drag Ty towards its mouth. As she struggled to break free, Ty reflected on the growing Drengir crisis. Having initially dismissed the Drengir, Ty eventually realized how dangerous they were, especially after hearing rumors that entire worlds had fallen to them. Ty also reflected on her time spent with Caratoo, who had taught her to define her limits. Ty only hunted sentient life-forms if they were trying to kill her, and she decided that the Drengir qualified. She pushed it with the Force, knowing that it wouldn't kill it. While still pushing, she eventually freed herself by snapping the vines that had hold of her.^[1]

As the Drengir attempted to overwhelm her mind, Ty leapt onto a tree branch. While Ty hung upside-down, the Drengir latched onto the branch, trying to break it. Ty then reached out with the Force in an attempt to find her weapon, which she eventually found beneath the Drengir and tried to call to her. As the Drengir latched onto both her wrists, Ty was able to ignite her lightsaber. She used the Force to control the blade, slicing the Drengir in two. But the branch broke, and Ty fell to the ground. Since Drengir could regenerate from even the tiniest piece, Ty cut the Drengir into strips so she could burn them. Even though she knew it would be a long process, Ty was determined to uphold her promise to the farmers.^[1]

Ty returned to the Safrifan village and received her payment. A Kuranu then approached her and introduced herself as Mantessa Chekkat, before asking for her help.^[1]

Valo[]

Mantessa and her daughter Klerin Chekkat hired Yorrick to protect them while they attended the Republic Fair on the planet Valo and attempted to sell a the prototype of a recainium-powered four-seven nullifier, a device that disrupted energy weapons, including Blasters and lightsabers, to Senator Tia Toon for his Defense Force Program. En route to the fair, Klerin displayed attraction towards Yorrick while toying with the large bangle she wore on one wrist. Though Klerin had invented the four-seven nullifier, her mother posed as the true inventor when meeting with Senator Toon.^[1]

Though Toon ended up wanting nothing to do with it since it utilized recainium, Mantessa had Yorrick activate her lightsaber for a demonstration, but Toon's secretary and bodyguard took it as an attack and started firing. Worse yet, Jedi Master Stellan Gios dove into the room at the sound of blasterfire and ordered her to drop her lightsaber. But when Jedi Master Elzar Mann as well as Padawan Bell Zettifar suddenly burst into the room, Yorrick flew into action and attacked Gios, the two engaging in Lightsaber combat before Yorrick managed to take him down by headbutting his face with her skullcap. Mann then went to fight her with his lightsaber, but she anticipated it and fought him too. She kicked him up against the wall and stabbed him with her lightsaber. However, Chekkat's nullifier had activated at just that moment, so Yorrick's lightsaber deactivated before it could stab Mann. Chekkat was proud of her demonstration, but Toon refused to buy the device, and called in Valo Security officers to arrest Yorrick and Chekkat for bringing recainium onto the world. Master Mann also took Yorrick's lightsaber to 'study' which Yorrick said she'd eventually need back.^[1]

Yorrick and Chekkat were imprisoned together on Valo. When Nihil marauders attacked the Valo Republic Fair, the two managed to escape with the help of Jedi Padawan Ram Jomaram, who had been imprisoned by mistake and was in a neighboring cell to Yorrick. After using a Mind trick to stop the first marauder that broke into the the prison, she and Jomaram used the Force to overwhelm the rest of the raiders, before Yorrick used the Force to take one of their blasters that they had dropped. She used the blaster to kill a Nihil raider that was going to shoot Jomaram, before shooting the prison control panel and releasing them. In the aftermath, Yorrick and Chekkat were separated as Chekkat ran for her life.^[1]

Yorrick encountered Elzar Mann in the midst of the battle. She attacked him with a Nihil mace and demanded her lightsaber back. He returned the weapon to her, asking for her help fighting the Nihil in return. Yorrick initially turned him down, but then used her saber to saved Mann from a hragscythe that had escaped from the Lonisa City Zoo. The two of them joined minds through the Force, and then tamed a pair of escaped sanvals, using them to help fight the Nihil.^[1]

Soon afterward, she found herself fighting alongside the Jedi to defeat the Nihil raiders during the attack on Valo, later joining the Battle of Grizal in a failed effort to wipe out the pirates.^[1]

Occlusion[]

After the Destruction of Starlight Beacon, Yorrick was trapped in the Nihil's Occlusion Zone.^[2] At one point, after hearing stories about monsters affecting the Jedi, Yorrick told KL-03 the story of her master's master, Coron Solstus, encountering the Nameless, creatures that preyed on Force-sensitives, and a cult transporting them called the Path of the Open Hand.^[13] KL-03 used this story to convince Yorrick to join up again with Drewen and make him her apprentice.^[5]

Personality and traits[]

Ty Yorrick was a female Tholothian with dark skin and pale head-tendrils held back from her face by a brown crown with a few interspersed cranial jewels. Due to the trauma of how she had left the Jedi, she avoided members of the Order and disliked talking about what had happened. She was once extremely superstitious, relying on Verazeen stones to make every decision. Yorrick could also be quite skeptical, reacting to initial reports of the emergence of the Drengir with derision at the thought of "plant monsters" running about.^[1]

When Yorrick realized that Klerin Chekkat appeared to have a crush on her, she would have considered exploring a possible connection if the timing was different, but Chekkat being the daughter of her unpredictable client made it unwise. Nevertheless, she flirted with Chekkat in an attempt to solicit more information about the job. When she later shared through the Force Elzar Mann's intimate memories of Avar Kriss, she felt attraction and teased Mann by clarifying that it was not towards him as he was not her type.^[1]

Despite her name being Tylera^[7] and only going by the name Ty, Yorrick insisted that she did not "do" nicknames.^[1]

Powers and abilities[]

Ty Yorrick was experienced in the use of her Force powers, particularly telekinesis, mind tricks, force speed and lightsaber combat.^[1][10]

Equipment[]

Ty Yorrick owned a purple-bladed lightsaber, a starship which she refused to name, and two droids: the admin unit KL-03 and the astromech droid R0-VR. She wore blue clothing and a golden headdress.^[1]

Behind the scenes[]

Ty Yorrick was created by author Cavan Scott for the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project. She first appeared simultaneously in the novel The High Republic: The Rising Storm by Scott^[1] and the junior novel The High Republic: Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older^[3] on June 29, 2021.^[14][15] In Race to Crashpoint Tower, the character's surname was misspelt as "Yorrik."^[3] Prior to her debut, Yorrick was first pictured on the cover of The Rising Storm in a StarWars.com article on December 4, 2020 that revealed the book's title.^[16] After the release of the article, Scott confirmed on Twitter that the female Tholothian on the book's cover was indeed Yorrick.^[17] She was later identified by her full name "Tylera" in the first issue of the comic miniseries Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures — The Monster of Temple Peak, which was written by Scott and published by IDW Publishing^[7] on August 11, 2021.^[18]

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