Tawkami Clan

The Tawkami clan (ENG: Sky Seer clan) is a Na'vi clan that resides peacefully deep in the wild Pandoran jungle. The clan has long watched over Eywa's ecosystem with a careful eye to maintain the balance and is known for its persistent quest for knowledge and lorekeeping.James Cameron's Avatar: The Game NDS, Pandorapedia article
==Culture==
The Tawkami are highly studious and well known amongst other clans for being the most knowledgeable on Pandora and its inhabitants.Avatar: Adapt or Die issue 3 The clan considers it their mission to study and preserve the sacred ecosystem of Pandora. Many among them nest in massive, bioluminescent plants such as healing roses for days at a time to meditate and attain spiritual wisdom. They use plants for food, medicine, decorative items, and even personal clothing.The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration
Most notably, the Tawkami are master botanists, chemists, and alchemists. It has been said that where most see a beautiful landscape, the Tawkami see Pandora as an elaborate concoction of ingredients each with its own unique powers and virtues. Their recipes have been refined and passed down over generations, and include a wide array of potions, remedies, and other concoctions. Among their repertoire are tranquilizers, extracting essential oils, and producing the plexiglass-like material for their rider's masks.
The Tawkami award multicolored sashes to alchemical apprentices among their own. Each apprentice is given a plain sash to wear at the start of their training, to which colorful strips of fabric are added as they learn and gain mastery of new skills. The more colorful the sash, the more experienced the chemist.https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/toruk/pandora?explore Pandorapedia article on the Tawkami Symbol
===Habitat===
The clan's territory neighbors the Kekunan clan and is situated in the mountains. It is a lush jungle filled with many varieties of bright, colorful flowers ranging drastically in size, the largest towering over even a fully grown Na'vi. Their village is centralized by a giant panopyra, which once contained the sacred Tranquil Seed.
===Rites===
Hunters of the Tawkami clan undergo their own version of Iknimaya when they come of age. Initiates get a yellow V-shape applied to their forehead,Syanan's biography/artwork and must create their own rider's mask. The plexiglass-like material of the lenses is cut and custom-fit to each rider by the clan elders, and initiates spend up to 16 hours polishing the lenses during their rite.
==History==
=== The First Toruk Makto ===
The earliest tales of the Tawkami tell of the youngster, Tsyal, a daughter of the Olo'eyktan who defies her father's wishes and helps Ralu and Entu on their quest to tame a Great Leonopteryx. They needed the Tranquil Seed, one of the sacred items needed on their quest to tame toruk. The clan chief refused to help Entu and Ralu and even laughed at them, not believing the prophecy. Against the will of her clan, Tsyal stole the seed and joined them. She uses the sacred Tranquil Seed to subdue the toruk, helping Entu become the first Toruk Makto. 
Later, the Tawkami were summoned by Toruk Makto to help the Omatikaya clan stop the flood of lava that threatened to destroy the Tree of Souls. They helped destroy a mountain and release a stream of water onto the lava.
=== Helping the Omatikaya ===
When a mysterious illness strikes the children of the Omatikaya clan and, as it is later learned, the avatars of Hell's Gate, Mo'at turned to the Tawkami clan for help in finding an antidote. Mo'at had taken Grace Augustine with her to the village of Tawkami, to which Mireya was skeptical; at first, she refused to help for fear of contaminating her own clan, but she eventually agreed to help. After Grace passed out, Mireya discovered patches of pale pigment on her body. She decided on bringing Grace's avatar to a field of syekalin, a flower suspected of causing the disease. Mireya believed that what caused the disease could also become a cure. Mo'at and Grace later used the syekalin to synthesize a cure for the disease.
=== So'lek's visit ===
In 2162, eight years after the Battle of Ayram Alusìng, So'lek was in the territories of the Tawkami clan, where he was attacked by viperwolves, and was found and treated for his wounds by Saynan. After he recovered, the rest of the Tawkami treated him very simply for the next three months. One day, a young man alerted Saynan and So'lek about a small group that was looking a Sage Mushroom, they were trapped in a cave, with the help of other members, they managed to remove all the debris and get those inside. Syanan then began treating the wounded. Thanks to her and So'lek, who helped with the treatment, the three gatherers were saved and at night So'lek prepared to continue his journey. With a final joke, Syanan and the rest of the Tawkami bid him farewell.
==Avatar: The Game==
The Tawkami clan were prominently featured in NDS version of James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. In this game, the Tawkami lived in a village in the jungle called Greenhome. They had a hometree overlooking the village, but did not live in it. The clan also had control over the potent fruit.
The game detailed the Tawkami's first contact with humans, which came about when a Samson flew over their village. Open conflict between the two groups took place almost immediately, with the humans capturing the clan's elders that same day. This sparked a series of battles that eventually resulted in the abandonment of various RDA sites including the Highcrags mining facility, and the defeat of the rogue scientist Dr. Ossman.
==Known Members==
Na'vi 	Status 	Title 	Portrait
Lunapey	Alive 	Gatherer/Specializing in collection of Beanstalk 	
Mireya 	Alive 	Healer 	
Rawm 	Alive 	A Na'vi who was struck by lightning as a child/Permanently marked 	
Syanan 	Alive 	Healer 	
Tsyal 	3000 years ago	A happy girl with an indomitable spirit/Helped Entu and Ralu tame the Great Leonopteryx	
=== Non-Canon ===
Na'vi 	Title 	Portrait
Alira 	Gatherer 	
Lompo 	A little Na'vi boy from the Tawkami clan 	
Malimi 	One of the elders of the Tawkami clan 	
Mukata 	Hunter 	
Nera'nak 	One of the elders of the Tawkami clan 	
Nok 	A Na'vi child of the clan who becomes a young warrior and later Alaksi Nari	
Unnamed Olo'eyktan	Unnamed Olo'eyktan 	
Omati 	Nok's good friend 	
Onantu 	One of the elders from clan 	
Seyvaro 	A Storyteller 	
Unnamed Tsahìk 	Tsahìk of the clan and partner of the leader 	
Tsa'law 	Hunter 	
==Trivia==
* In the non-canonical NDS version of James Cameron's Avatar: The Game, there are signs in the Tawkami village that can be read by the player. In canon however, the Na'vi have pictograms but not phonetic or ideographic forms of writing.The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration - "There is no evidence of a Na'vi writing system"
== Gallery ==
Tawkamiclannick.jpg|Seen in Toruk - The First Flight
Tawkami So'lek's Journey.png|Seen in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — So'lek's Journey
==References==
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