Janmāru-Tataru

Janmāru-Tataru ( ジャンマール＝タタル ) was a contemporary of the Sage of Six Paths . He was the founder of the Astronomy Research Institute .

## Background [ ]

Tataru established the Astronomy Research Institute high in the mountains, just beyond the northern border of the Land of Redaku . One day he met the Sage of Six Paths, who was searching Redaku for a way to cure damage to his chakra pathway system caused by his time as a jinchūriki . Tataru took the Sage in and, despite having no medical training, offered to help him. On the night that the Sage would ultimately be cured, a shooting star passed overhead, which the Sage caught and cut in two using only his chakra . One of these halves immediately dissolved into dust, which Tataru dubbed " polar particles ". The dust enveloped the Sage and healed his body.

The Sage immortalised Tataru as the "shepherd" in Hoshinarabe , a card game he created that could be used to track down some of the leftover polar particles he hid near the Institute.