Force Traditions
Force Traditions
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Force traditions bring together teachings, beliefs, and practices through which people understand the Force. They shape how practitioners learn, what they consider responsible conduct, and how they relate to teachers, communities, and competing ideas.
Explore this part of Lore to find a tradition’s distinctive outlook and the experiences it can contribute to a character’s life. Shared teachings leave room for different personalities, disagreements, and choices.
Explore the Traditions
Explore the Traditions
These references introduce a selection of traditions with roots in the Old Republic. Their histories, influence, and surviving institutions differ. Each page provides more detailed context for understanding its teachings and developing a credible connection to them.
Jedi teaching joins study of the Force with compassion, self-discipline, service, and resistance to the dark side. Scholarship, diplomacy, healing, and defense put those commitments into practice. Difficult circumstances can test how a Jedi understands restraint, responsibility, and the consequences of intervention.
Sith teaching embraces the dark side, connecting passion and struggle with the pursuit of power and freedom. Apprenticeship, rivalry, dangerous knowledge, and ambition shape that pursuit. A Sith may be patient or impulsive, scholarly or martial; those differences do not remove the tradition’s involvement with coercion and domination.
Voss Mystics devote years of preparation to gifts of prophecy and healing. Their teachings belong to a distinctive cultural framework, although Jedi and Sith recognize their abilities as expressions of the Force. Visions and their interpretation carry exceptional weight in the lives of the Voss.
The Baran Do preserve a Kel Dor tradition originating on Dorin. Patient contemplation, foresight, and counsel distinguish their approach. Their history as advisers offers a foundation for stories about recognizing danger, deciding when to act, and accepting responsibility for advice that others depend upon.
Rooted among Manaan’s Selkath, the Order of Shasa developed after Sith exploitation during the Jedi Civil War. Protection of their people and independence from foreign control shaped its early purpose. Its history also raises difficult questions about inherited Sith instruction and the methods used in a community’s defense.
Zakuul’s traditions connect earlier tribal practices with institutions reshaped under Valkorion. Knightly exploration of the Force accompanied devotion to the Emperor, while the Scions emphasized prophecy and fate. Their history exposes tensions between spiritual conviction, obedience, and responsibility toward others.
The Jal Shey emphasize intellectual investigation of the Force, with diplomacy, counsel, and teaching prominent in Old Republic descriptions. Their scholarly outlook offers possibilities for traveling investigators and mediators. Their contemporary institutional reach remains uncertain; a character’s particular education needs its own history.
Matukai practice combines martial movement with meditation, using the body to channel the Force. Harmony between physical and spiritual development lies at its center. Old Republic sources establish the tradition’s practices, while the extent of its organization during SWTOR remains uncertain.
Belief, Training & Membership
Belief, Training & Membership
A character’s convictions, education, and institutional standing can develop differently. Former instruction may continue to influence someone after their allegiance changes. Familiarity with a practice also needs to be distinguished from sustained training or recognized membership.
For ranks, service, and institutional authority, consult the Jedi Order, Sith Order, and Knights of Zakuul. Organizations provides the wider directory.
Independent Practitioners & Labels
Independent Practitioners & Labels
Describe how an independent practitioner encountered the Force, what instruction they received, and which disciplines they have actually practiced. Unusual perceptions can precede understanding; interrupted education can leave both useful skills and substantial gaps.
Terms such as “Gray Jedi” need a specific explanation. Identify the character’s beliefs, relationship with Jedi authority, and attitude toward the dark side. Political independence, disagreement with a teacher, and religious conviction each deserve their own explanation.
SWTOR’s combat styles, alignment choices, and available abilities do not establish a character’s doctrine or training.
Developing a Character’s Training
Developing a Character’s Training
Use the Character Creation Guide to connect Force involvement with a believable education, practical limitations, and relationships that can continue through play.
Who provided instruction, and what made that relationship possible?
Which practices received sustained attention, and which remain unfamiliar?
What lesson becomes difficult when the character has something personal to lose?
Where does the character need another person’s knowledge or assistance?
Which teacher, student, community, or unfinished responsibility could draw others into a story?
Consult Current Setting when war, displacement, or institutional change affects access to teachers and communities. That page contains major SWTOR story spoilers. Knowledge available to readers still needs a credible route into a character’s experience.
Developing an Original Tradition
Developing an Original Tradition
Give an original tradition a community that sustains it: a household, settlement, traveling school, or group preserving a teacher’s work. Explain how its understanding of the Force influences everyday decisions.
Establish where and when its teachings developed.
Describe how students learn and how knowledge survives.
Identify its obligations, disagreements, and practical dependencies.
Explain its relationships with neighboring communities and other teachings.
Leave disputed discoveries and future outcomes open to play.
Use Continuity & Canon to connect original material with established history. Distinguish a community’s beliefs from demonstrated facts, and coordinate shared history with the participants whose characters it involves.
A tradition gains lasting relevance through the people who practice it, the responsibilities they inherit, and the choices they make together.
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