WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Monster at Temple Peak #3, on sale now.

In the Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Monster at Temple Peak miniseries, Ty Yorrick accepts a job from Layton Wyke and Wyke's town to hunt a monster, the Gretalax, who Layton explains has been terrorizing his settlement. While Ty accepts the job and later gains aid from her stowaway, Drewen, in the hunt, there are hints throughout the miniseries that Layton may be obscuring the whole truth from Ty.  After Ty and Drewen finally reach the Gretalax’s lair, the truth becomes clear: the Gretalax may not actually be a monster after all.

The Gretalax might not be the true villain of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Monster at Temple Peak #1-3 by Cavan Scott, Rachael Stott, Vita Efremova, Nicola Righi, Johanna Nattalie, Riley Farmer and Heather Antos. Layton Wyke's explanation of the Gretalax seems very straightforward in the first issue. He and Tapel, another citizen of Wyke Town, begin by showing cave paintings of the Gretalax to Ty, and Tapel explains that they thought the Gretalax was an extinct creature until it attacked. Layton tells Ty that he and his fellow moof-ranchers have been losing cattle and equipment to the beast, and the Gretalax also rampaged through the village, killing many people in the process.

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Layton Wykes and Tapel show Ty Yorrick cave drawings of the Gretalax in Star Wars the High Republic Monster at Temple Peak. The page segues into a memory of the actual Gretalax attacking Wyke Town.

While the job seems to be pretty standard, Ty still is uneasy about the mission, and Layton's niece Pela gives her even more reason to question Layton's description of events. While first getting information on the mission, Pela knocks past Ty, seeming to try to tamper with Ty's consultation of her Verazeen stones. Tapel explains that Pela inhaled gas that made her "not in her right mind." However, this characterization of Pela might actually be a way that Layton tries to obscure the truth and hide the Gretalax's true nature. Pela seems determined to communicate with Ty and even follows her up the mountain to try to stop her from harming the Gretalax. The action seems to end in Pela's death when Pela falls off the cliffside, despite Ty's efforts to save her.

In the third issue, Ty and Drewen finally reach the Gretalax's lair, but Ty senses immediately that something is not right. While the beast attacks, Ty seems more focused on calming the Gretalax down than trying to harm it. Meanwhile, Drewen finds Pela wrapped in a web, still alive. Ty realizes the truth and convinces Drewen to stop attacking. Ty chides herself for assuming that the Gretalax was simply a mindless beast, but her actions and her hesitation throughout the miniseries show that she was suspicious all along about the Gretalax and the mission itself.

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Ty Yorrick reaches out to the Gretalax as Drewen looks on worried in Star Wars The High Republic The Monster at Temple Peak. She tells Drewen that not everything is as it seems.

Ty realizes Gretalax is not only sentient, but it is also force sensitive. The Gretalax uses the Force to establish a connection with Ty. First, the Gretalax shows Ty that the Gretalax and the Rock Weavers, giant spider creatures under the Gretalax's command, saved Pela. The Gretalax also shows Ty the what actually happened when the Gretalax attacked Wyke's Town, including Pela's attempts to help the beast even after the attack began. The Gretalax through the vision shows Ty what was behind the wall with the cave painting, and Ty seems angered by what she sees. Ty seems to be very sympathetic to the creature until the final panel, when she states that she “learned what the monster did. And it will not stand.” The viewer is not shown what “the monster” actually did yet.

The final panel seems directed at the Gretalax. However, the clues throughout the miniseries show that Ty is most likely referring to the people of Wyke's Town, possibly particularly Layton Wyke, as the true monsters, and she will reveal the truth when she confronts them in the miniseries’ finale. The Gretalax shows that life in a galaxy far, far away cannot be written off as mindless, and any creature might be capable of being far more connected with the Force than they initially appear to be. While Ty shuns her Jedi past, her own connection with the Force makes her uniquely suited to uncovering the true nature of the creatures she hunts and allows her to avoid destroying sentient life that has unfairly been labeled monstrous by people refusing to understand their nature.

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