Sith vs Jedi

[Darth_Lucius]

Revan didnt walk the line because to him there wasnt a line to walk. It was all shades of grey. He realized that sometimes good people make bad choices and bad people make good choices. Now does that mean that the good people are bad and the bad people are good? No, it means that they made a choice. Thats what Revan understood. He understood the power of choices. He chose to save billions of lives at the cost of a few. Now, he might have made bad choices in doing so. He tortured and killed people. Some would say that was a bad choice, but to him it was all shades of grey. He knew he had to make those tough choices in order to do what had to be done.

[JediXMan]

Isn't that similar to what Caedus (pre-Inferno) thought? He didn't believe in a Light or Dark Side per se.

[Lord_Andeddu]

Caedus isn't similar to any regulr Sith. He had been 'shaped' by the master of deception Vergere, who was a member of the Potentum cult, in which they believed there was no light nor dark; which is an erratic belief, due to the fact the Force does indeed have 2 sides, Light and Dark. Caedus had not only studied the ways of the Force, thought by the Jedi and quite a bit of the dark, thought by Vergere (and if I'm not mistaken (knowing the character, I thi nk I am not) he also had studied the ways of the Witches from Dathomir, giving the fact he had a Dathomiri who could teach him the basics, the gorgeous Tenel Ka, who became mother to his  daughter), but he had also studied the ways of the Thesslar Listeners and the White Current, as well as 3 more sects of Force practitioners, but I don't remember their names.

He came to the understanding that the Force was unbalanced, because it had tipped to the Light side. What he did, was become a Sith because he needed to bring balance to te Force, all due to his understanding of the Force, and for an ultimate goal which was, bring balance. In that process, he destroyed the work his Grandfather was chosen to create. He brought the Sith back. He disobeyed the will of the Force, because the Force created Anakin to bring the balance that it accepted as proper, Light, with a minimum of dark; Jacen disrespected that order, and brought both sides to be even, but that isn't naturally how the Force itself intended it to be.

[JediXMan]

That's not quite how they describe it in the book series. Caedus believed he could be a Sith without doing evil for the sake of evil, but was eventually corrupted. His goal, for him, was to bring peace to the galaxy by ruling with the Sith way of order.

[Darth_Lucius]

The force is the force. Its our actons and our motives that determine where we are 'light or dark.'

[Lord_Andeddu]

The force is the force. Its our actons and our motives that determine where we are 'light or dark.'

And that is the primary teaching in the Potentum doctrine. The Force indeed has sides. As stated by the great creator, GL. Also it is at the end, he main teaching Jedi end up learning.

[JediXMan]

the great creator, GL.

Whoa, whoa, WHOA! What?! What did you call him?! 

[Lord_Andeddu]

It's his creation.

[JediXMan]

And he should've stopped with that. He created Star Wars, which is great. But that's pretty much it. He's not that great a writer. I much prefer the EU.

[Lord_Andeddu]

The whole SW should've stoped at that. 1,983.

The fact that he is a lame writter doesn't mean that what his thinking or saying won't weigh on his creation. But that is only seeing it from an out-universe perspective. In-universe, the Force has sides, because it is an entity that work like the Yin-Yang.