Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar

"If one is to understand the Great Mystery, one must study all its aspects..."

- summarizes the central tenet of Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar,

Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar, a compound word meaning "the act of abiding on the edge of a knife,"   was a  of  espoused by certain   that claimed the path to enlightenment could only be walked by treading the thin line between the  and  of the Force, thus in effect embracing the Force as a unified entity rather than merely the sum of its component parts. In some respects, it could be conceived as being the philosophical counterpart of the  in its Juyo and Vaapad variations,  requiring the user to walk a delicate line between the light and dark sides of  in order to make the most efficient use of both extremes of the alignment spectrum.

Unifying Force
As the origins of the Sorcerers of Tund lay with a group of heretical priests who displayed a certain sympathy towards the  during the lead-up to the ,  the Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar philosophy had its roots in the Rakata   philosophy. This philosophical paradigm, which eventually came to be embraced by disparate fringe elements of the in subsequent millennia,  in large part dismissed the traditional perceptions of the Force as being a clearly demarcated light/dark binary entity as incomplete and overly simplistic. Instead, it posited that Force was a single entity that could not be so readily subdivided into cleanly divisible alignment aspects.

Dark/light duality
While the Kissai of clung to the Rakata Unifying Force philosophy as the bedrock of their belief system for millennia, the arrival of Sith-human s from the  in the centuries following the  facilitated the dissemination of the more traditional light/dark binary view of the Force, a paradigm first introduced to the Sith by the dark-sided  from whom these hybrids were descended. Additionally, resettled Sith refugees displaced by the brought into philosophical discourse the newly-encountered philosophies of the, a sect of Force users who had accepted the reality of a light/dark binary alignment system since the earliest days of their order. The years following the formal establishment of the in  were marked by frequent philosophical conflict between the Kissai-blooded proponents of the Unifying Force theory and the Sith-human hybrid supporters of the duality theory.

Hybrid philosophy
In an effort to facilitate a compromise between these competing systems of thought, the reconciliatory Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar philosophy was first proposed. This hybrid philosophy allowed for the possibility of the light side/dark side duality but qualified this allowance by stating that true enlightenment could only come through embracing the Force as a unified entity. Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar practitioners thus believed that those Force users who stubbornly clung to one alignment extreme or the other were only ever capable of seeing half the picture at best, a behavior they likened to the intentional blinding of one eye. As the philosophy's name implied, a complete and total understanding of the "Great Mystery" required that Force users be willing and capable of walking the delicate line that divided the light side from the dark side, drawing their power from both and their understanding from a complete comprehension of the Force as a unified whole.

Legacy
While many hardline elements of the Sorcerers continued to practice and preach the Unifying Force philosophy well into the, a sizable percentage of the Sith population in large part accepted the tenets of the Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar paradigm as philosophically sound. Apart from occasional deviants, most infamously including the -era followers of the dark-sided Sorcerer, many Sorcerers throughout the ages pursued a balanced, unified understanding of the Force through the conventional and unconventional study of both the light and dark sides, in accordance with Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar teachings.

Etymology
The word Dzwolutqoritanjatshikkar was composed according to the morphology rules governing  and could be viewed as a single word composed of a host of different stems and case endings. It was derived from the verb dzwol meaning "to abide/exist/stand," the nominal verb marker -ut transforming the verb "to abide" into the noun "the act of abiding," the noun qorit meaning "end/edge," ending -anjat used to transform qorit into the object of the implied  "on/at", and noun  in reference to the traditional  dagger of the same name. As the Sith language had no ending and simply appended modifying nouns to the end of their s, shikkar was simply bolted on to the end of the word and translated as "of a knife."