Tighnarian

This article is about species. For the playable character, see Tighnari.

Tighnarian
Tighnari, a Tighnarian descendant
Type	Species Lore
Region	Sumeru

Tighnarians, also known as Valuka Shuna, are a humanoid, foxlike race in Sumeru.

Originally hailing from Tighnar, they lived in the Great Red Sand during the era of King Deshret's civilization and remained there for over a century after his death, until constant warring between Eremite tribes led them to move to Dharma Forest.

Tighnari is their descendant, named after them.

Overview

The Tighnarians are known for their wisdom, and are credited with the city of Tulaytullah's enduring prosperity in the era following King Deshret's death. While people came to associate Tighnarians with Tulaytullah, they actually came from Tighnar and only settled in Tulaytullah following King Deshret's death.

After moving to the rainforest, the Aranara gave the Tighnarians the name "Valuka Shuna", meaning "large desert dog" in the Aranara Language — despite the fact that Tighnarians more closely resembled foxes.

While Hermanubis, a Tighnarian, held Electro-based powers while he was alive, it is unclear whether all Tighnarians had elemental abilities, or if this was a unique trait bestowed upon him as King Deshret's familiar.

Appearance

Hermanubis, currently the only example of a "true" Tighnarian, had a jackal-like head but a humanlike body.

Mortal descendants of Tighnarians have inherited some Tighnarian traits, implicitly due to intermarriage. They have large ears reminiscent of fennec foxes', as well as bushy tails, but otherwise have human features.

When they resided in the desert, Tighnarians' hair and fur were light in color to help with heat tolerance, but as they adapted to their new lives in the rainforest, they developed darker green fur. This dark fur has caused some Tighnarian descendants to have particularly low heat tolerance.

Story

King Deshret's Era

Given the lack of information about Tighnar, little is known about the Tighnarians' origins. Hermanubis was said to have been a "warrior of Tighnar" who came from the "barren desert sands" to serve King Deshret, and given that Deshret "chose the sage Hermanubis from among the Tighnarians" to be his familiar, many — if not all — the Tighnarians became Deshret's followers. While Deshret was alive, most of his priests were Tighnarians.

After King Deshret's Death

Following King Deshret's death, the Tighnarian priests followed Hermanubis to Tulaytullah, where they founded the Temple of Silence to preserve the knowledge that survived the fall of Deshret's civilization. Little over a hundred years later, the various desert city-states descended into war. While Tulaytullah managed to remain stable for a while, war eventually came to them. A king of Gurabad besieged Tulaytullah, demanding the Temple of Silence be handed over to him as proof of his victory. To secure their own positions, the ruling elite of the city colluded with him by antagonizing the Temple of Silence as the true source of the chaos. By this point, Hermanubis had exhausted his strength trying to keep forbidden knowledge, introduced to the Great Red Sand by Deshret before his death, at bay. To safeguard the Temple, Hermanubis split himself into many parts called Ba fragments, which granted his power to members of the Temple of Silence.

Though this new power was able to drive away the invading Gurabad army, the people of Tulaytullah were wary of this strange phenomenon and shunned the Temple of Silence. Because of that, the Temple and the Tulaytullah Tighnarians abandoned the city and the desert altogether, choosing to carefully make their way to the rainforest to preserve their knowledge by forming an alliance with the Sumeru Akademiya. In their historical traditions, Tighnarian descendants claim that their survival was due to Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's grace, which also turned their fur green.

400 Years Ago to Present

For the next several centuries, the Temple of Silence and the Tulaytullah Tighnarians lived peacefully in the rainforest, successfully forming a partnership with Sumeru Akademiya in order to preserve their knowledge. However, after Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's death during the cataclysm 500 years ago, the Sages who controlled the Akademiya grew corrupt. A hundred years later, the Temple of Silence's members deemed the Sages untrustworthy and quietly ended their partnership. While some members decided to return to the desert, most Tighnarians decided to remain in the rainforest.

Tighnarian descendants can still be found around Sumeru to this day, such as Tighnari and his ancestry.

Known Tighnarians

• Hermanubis

Tighnarian Descendants

• Tighnari's father and mother
  • Tighnari

Other Languages

Language	Official Name
English	Tighnarian
Chinese (Simplified)	提纳勒人 Tínàlè-rén
Chinese (Traditional)	提納勒人 Tínàlè-rén
Japanese	ティナル人 Tinaru-jin
Korean	타이나르인 Tainareu-in
Spanish	Tignario
French	Tighnarien
Russian	Тигнариец Tignariyets
Thai	Tighnarian
Vietnamese	Người Tighnar
German	Tighnarer
Indonesian	Kaum Tighnari
Portuguese	Tighnariano
Turkish	Tighnarlı
Italian	Tighnariano

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