From that moment, she firmly believed that Revan had never "fallen" to the dark side, and that a greater cause had come that called for certain actions to be done. Traya also learned of a forgotten legacy of the Sith that had lurked in the Unknown Regions for thousands of years. As much as she wanted to denounce them and their arguments, she fell under their seductive spell, and became Darth Traya, the Lord of Betrayal.
The Sith sorcerers claimed that they had privileged insight into secret realities, arguing that even though the contradictory and aimless nature of existence appeared obvious to all intelligent beings, awareness of the Force exposed this obvious "fact" as a lie, further stating that the Force betrayed Force-sensitives, making them live in a compromised, chaotic universe - to live the lie. Kreia believed that the manuscripts' authors were pureblooded descendants of the ancient Sith species. The Sith manuscripts that Kreia used the Force to read through intimated that the truths of the cosmos were not intended for the sane. She encountered Sith assassins left by Revan, but rather than attack the Jedi Master, they presented Kreia with Sith hermetica. On the surface, Kreia found Darth Revan's former stronghold, the Trayus Academy, an ancient dark side praxeum that contained the deepest and most intimate secrets of the Sith. Kreia was eventually drawn to the Force echoes of the Sith world Malachor V, a nexus of dark side energies and part of the ancient Sith Empire. Some believed that she had followed Revan and his Jedi to war, but she instead traced her former Padawan's footsteps, searching for an answer that she alone could provide. " All that talk of hatred, manipulation, and standing on your own two feet - sorry, you don't get any more Sith than that." ―Atton Rand Īfter Kreia was exiled by the Jedi for her role in training Revan, she began to question her beliefs, and silently withdrew from the Order. The council denounced both Kreia and her teachings. By the end of her time with the Jedi Order, Kreia's students were believed to be failures by Jedi Master Atris and the council, because they followed Revan into the Galactic Republic's war against the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, and either fell to the dark side or abandoned their training. Revan then made up his mind to openly defy the council. Eventually Revan came back to her to seek her guidance regarding the Jedi Council's stance of inaction against the Mandalorians. However, her teachings were looked upon with concern by the Jedi Council, after Revan left Kreia's tutelage, he sought out other Masters to round out his education, apprenticing himself to Masters Zhar Lestin and Dorak. One of Kreia's Padawans was a highly gifted Jedi who eventually became known as " Revan". Her fellow Jedi, who called her teachings "Kreia's conundrums", viewed them as quaint, but Kreia's students were mystified. For decades, she challenged her students with difficult questions, such as whether a lightsaber was still a lightsaber if it lost its power, or if a Jedi was still a Jedi if she lost her Force powers.
Kreia's eyesight went unused as she depended on meditations, attempting to penetrate the galaxy's mysteries. However, it is known that she was a Jedi historian, and that she had worked her way to the rank of Jedi Master, training many students.
The majority of the early life of the Human female Kreia is shrouded in mystery. Always, there were more questions." ―Kreia " I was a historian once, gathering the relics of the Jedi, learning the ancient mysteries.