WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Monster at Temple Peak #2, on sale now.
Throughout her appearances in the Star Wars: The High Republic subseries, Ty Yorrick has made it clear that she has a complicated history with the Jedi. While Ty was once a Padawan, she left the Jedi Order under mysterious circumstances. In the Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Monster at Temple Peak miniseries, she seems to be committed to delving into those circumstances. In Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Monster at Temple Peak #2, Ty continues to hunt the Gretalax, a creature from Temple Peak hounding the small community of Wyke Town on Loreth. During her journey, Ty continues to flashback to both her time as a Padawan and the fateful trip to Mount Bikja with fellow Padawan Klias Terradine that led her to leave the Jedi Order.
In these flashbacks, Klias and Ty make their way up Mount Bikja in Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures: The Monster at Temple Peak #2 by Cavan Scott, Rachael Stott, Vita Efremova, Nicola Righi, Johanna Nattalie, Riley Farmer and Heather Antos. On the way, Klias discusses his desire to learn from sources other than the Jedi in order to heighten the Jedi’s understanding of the Force in all its complexity. When Ty slips while climbing, Klias specifically uses a technique from the Sabracci Sages to stand perpendicular to the mountain and catch Ty. When Ty asks about the new technique, Klias explains that Jedi Master Illaga told him about the Sabracci Sages. This fact reveals that the Jedi of the High Republic are willing to look outside their own teachings to learn more about the Force. It also shows that, unlike the Yallow Fellowship that Klias and Ty investigate, the Sabracci sages seem to at least be somewhat approved by the Jedi.
Throughout Ty and Klias’ trek, Klias is overconfident, believing the Yallow Fellowship to be dead and gone. Still, he insists that he wants to learn more about the Force to help prevent Jedi from falling to the dark side by learning more of the dark side's tricks. Even when they accidentally set off some traps in the shrine and are almost skewered by spears, Klias insists that nothing in the temple can hurt them. However, from the fragmented flashbacks of Ty later in their journey, the Yallow shrine obviously still has horrors left behind.
In the present timeline, Ty's trauma from whatever occurred on Mount Bikja is evident. During the Nihil attack on Valo, when she worked with Elzar Mann, he was able to sense some of what happened with Klias, but he did not see everything. Whatever happened made Ty unwilling to take Elzar up on his offer to help her rejoin the Order. When Drewen, a young stowaway who wants to train with her, asks Ty about her first monster fight, she says it was "terrifying" and that she "shut it up once and for all." While this statement is meant to get Drewen to stop asking questions, it also shows how much Mount Bikja and Klias' fate still haunts her.
Shortly afterward, Ty is attacked for unknown reasons by Pela, a young girl from Wyke town. In the ensuing attack, Pela slips and falls off the mountainside. When Ty reaches to grab Pela with the Force, she has a flashback to Klias saying "I've got you." Ty is unable to keep a hold of Pela, and Pela falls, presumably to her death. Ty clearly blames herself, saying "I'm sorry. I tried. I'm so, so sorry." While these words seem to be for Pela, they might also be for Klias as well.
As Ty and Drewen continue to climb Temple Peak to hunt the Gretalax, Ty will need to face her past to begin to heal from the trauma that led her to leave the Jedi. Klias's ultimate fate is still a mystery that could be revealed in the second half of the Monster at Temple Peak miniseries. However, Ty's trauma indicates that Klias did not survive, and she, as the survivor, is left with the unwarranted guilt for the loss of her friend that still haunts her.