Nature’s Surge

 


Source Player Core pg. 193 

Nature Skill

Wisdom

Nature governs your connection to ecosystems both familiar and alien, ranging from bone forests on haunted moons to sentient biomes woven into orbital cities. Nature checks leverage Wisdom, supporting recall of natural lore, identification of primal and elemental magic, navigation across wild starfields, and management of Rift-mutated biospheres.

Nature’s Surge

“In Starfall’s boundless era, survival means understanding the pulse of living worlds. Nomad rangers track Rift-serpents by the warmth of neon vines, bio-witches commune with crystal forests, and urban magi barter for the favor of sentient weather nodes. Nature expertise is the difference between thriving in a howling wasteland and perishing among the roots of haunted megacities.”

Who Uses Nature?

  • Viridian Ascent bio-rangers mapping gene-altered wild zones

  • Guild magi cultivating dome ecosystems to stave off Rift decay

  • Pilots and exorcists negotiating safe passage or psychic storms with alien megafauna

  • Settlement leaders mediating ecological balance and resource crises in frontier outposts.

Roleplaying Hooks:

  • Track, heal, or commune with cosmic fauna in neon jungles or vacuum gardens

  • Negotiate peace with bioengineered leaders who wield elementally-attuned magic

  • Divert ecosystem collapse, defend settlements from Rift anomalies, or map resource nodes for faction advantage


Untrained Actions

  • Command an Animal: You issue an order to an animal.

  • Recall Knowledge: Investigate alien fauna, flora, cosmic geography, elemental phenomena, and environmental hazards—from deepworld oceans to Rift-warped jungles.

Trained Actions

  • Identify magic: Detect and analyze primal/biomagical effects—particularly the psychically reactive magic found across Starfall’s living settlements and elementally scarred worlds.

  • Learn A Spell: Gain new primal spells through communion, study of living traditions, or bioechoes in magitech archives. Spell learning may require rare ingredients, artifact resonance, or negotiations with sentient nodes.

Special: Nature skill often grants survival tools, environmental manipulation, and crisis management advantages—especially vital in the dynamic, post-cataclysm zones of Starfall.


Societal and Adventure Hooks

  • Regenerate a dying bio-dome by channeling elemental flows and planting sentient seeds

  • Broker treaties between psychic beasts and rival settlements to avoid frontier war

  • Decipher ancient eco-runes left by vanished civilizations for clues to cosmic survival

  • Guide a living starship through a maze of Rift-burned nebulae using attuned Nature checks and psychic communion


In Starfall Galaxy, Nature is more than expertise—it’s a lifeline in the cosmic struggle for hope and survival. Heroes with this skill become bridge-builders between worlds, wielding wisdom and biotechnical craft to influence civilization, guide exploration, and endure the universe’s wildest perils.

Feats

Level 1

Quick Identification; You can Identify Magic swiftly.


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