Hi people,

I'm building a character whose concept is that of a well intended scientist interested in the healing properties of the vast flora of the galaxy, with a bond with nature. The idea is to make him, in the future, an Hermit / Pathfinder / Healer.

I want him to have studied to be a doctor at an university but also having one of his teachers to be a force sensitive individual member of a force tradition, one oriented to nature, and certainly not jedi nor combat oriented.

I though about the Ithorians , they are ecologists, enviromentalists and also refer to their planet as "Mother Jungle", but I haven't found any force tradition attached to them.

I only know of two force traditions with a link to nature: the Nightsisters (but they are darksiders), and the beast riders of Onderon (but I'm not interested in him being a beast raider, nor a "how to train your dragon" guy. Animals are better in their own environtments, and he gets help from them when required and asking them politely ).

I have googled a little, having found nothing usefull.

Any ideas of other force traditions oriented to nature?

Thanks!

Others will no doubt know of more, but any form of shamanism might work. The example that comes to mind is the Ewoks, but any species or culture with a history of shamanism may have some element of tapping into nature's power among its beliefs. Check out the Chalactan Adepts. They might fit the bill.

In the Bane Trilogy, there is a character, Force-Sensitive, a healer, granola-hippie-nature dude, called Caleb. That guy seems very much (well, exactly, really) like what you're looking for, but he's not a part of any tradition. At least not one thats ever described identified or hinted at.

Not all - indeed probably most? - Force sensitives out there in the Galaxy are not a part of any organized "tradition". There are ways to learn and use the Force other than from someone else.

Do you really need a "Tradition"? If so, it's a whole friggin' Galaxy. Make one up.

First of all; do you need a formal force tradition? Some people, especially in isolation; might just live that way in isolation as a unique way in life that he hasn't passed down. Without Jedi intervention he assumed the signs felt was from nature itself; perhaps your character was his first and only student of the way that you two explored together from a scientific basis. After all, sense can be the ripples produced by the river of thought; time could be a series of rivers leading toward the ocean of the destination, move might be using the native energy of life to bind and move an object to another destination and unleash can be releasing the pent up energy within an organism to devastating effect, spontaneous combustion. Sometimes the curiosity of one is all you need when force users are scattered across the galaxy like stars.

Thanks for the answers

Finally I found a very little note on the wookiepedia that scaped me (it's hidden in all the text there) that speaks about the ithorian Nature Priests. That was what I was searching for in the beginning, but there is so little information about them that I will use what I have found of ithorians and decide what parts of it are the likings of my character.

Asking me if I need a formal force tradition, also, has made me think, and I thank you guys for that.

You helped me to realize that I don't want my character to be part of the tradition. What I want is the mentor to be part of the tradition, now in hidding, who met my PC, saw its potential and began to teach him slowly about nature and the force. And that the Ithorian view of life is what best approximates to what I want.

What I want about the tradition, also, is to act as a starting point leading him to know and understand the force, and with this base follow his own principles, based in curiosity, empathy, scientific scepticism (not disbelieving, but scepticism) and an inner urge inside him, like a call, that there is something... more. Not to be knowed, but lived, experienced, understood. And returning to the bases of the tradition when he loses his north.

Thank you again for the responses!