Homebrew Na'Vi Species Details

The Na'vi live across various biomes of Pandora in territorial clan societies. They have an egalitarian social organization built around hunting, foraging, and handicraft that is centralized by the worship of Eywa, whom they perceive as an all-encompassing goddess who protects the balance of life on the moon. Following the will of Eywa, the Na'vi strive to live in perfect harmony with their environment, taking only the resources required for their survival. Although each Na'vi clan has its own culture with rich history, art, music, and code of dress, all Na'vi are centralized by the Three Laws of Eywa, or the "Na'vi Way":[10]

Various Shades of Blue

The Na'vi have smooth, iridescent skin appearing largely within the blue color spectrum, ranging from greenish-cyan and turquoise found in the Metkayina clan to deeper blues seen in jungle-fairing Na'vi such as the Omaticaya. The color is due to the presence of cyanin pigment which can "tan" to a darker purple color after prolonged UV exposure. The skin is marked with darker-colored markings, typically stripes. Bioluminescent markings resembling freckles that seem to follow the path of the circulatory or nervous system can appear in a varied color palette to indicate mood, although it's unknown if the Na'vi have conscious control of this. They are overall humanoid in their physiology but possess feline features such as long sweeping tails, pointed, flexible ears, and triangular faces with flat bifurcated noses, all framed with large eyes - typically yellow, although oceanic clans have been observed to have blue eyes.

 

Distinctly separating them from humans, the Na'vi have four fingers on each hand and foot (including opposable thumbs and opposable big toes), as opposed to humans' five. Due to the influence of human DNA during genetic sequencing, avatars maintain five fingers and non-opposable big toes.

 

Na'vi have hair on their heads, part of which is sectioned off and braided around their queue for protection. The Na'vi appear to have no other body hair, with the exception of eyelashes and a small "bob" of fur on the end of their tails. Avatars possess hair on the brow bone, whereas full Na'vi do not.

Average male has a mass of around 210 kg (approximately 463 pounds). In Pandoran gravity (0.8 Earth g) they weigh 1647.52 N or 370 lb (compared to 2059.40 N or 463 lb in Earth's gravity). Female mass is slightly less, around 190 kg (419 pounds 1g / 334 pounds 0.8g) due to a lighter build and slightly shorter stature.

The average Na'vi life span is longer than that of a human – approximately 30% longer – though they mature more rapidly followed by a plateau of adulthood without physical decline.

A Peace with Nature

The Na'vi live across various biomes of Pandora in territorial clan societies. They have an egalitarian social organization built around hunting, foraging, and handicraft that is centralized by the worship of Eywa, whom they perceive as an all-encompassing goddess who protects the balance of life on the moon. Following the will of Eywa, the Na'vi strive to live in perfect harmony with their environment, taking only the resources required for their survival. Although each Na'vi clan has its own culture with rich history, art, music, and code of dress, all Na'vi are centralized by the Three Laws of Eywa, or the "Na'vi Way"

"You shall not set stone upon stone."

These laws give strict boundaries for what is appropriate in Na'vi society and explain much of their lack of technological development. Indeed, the Na'vi's primitive lifestyle is a choice made by them in order to protect their ecological harmony and leaves them closely resembling humans' Neolithic period in terms of technological development. With this in mind, the Na'vi do occasionally display a level of advanced technology. They possess crossbows for example, a weapon not developed until the 4th-6th century by humans. The Tawkami clan have also developed a sophisticated form of chemistry.

Omnivore Diet

The Na'vi are an omnivorous species. They eat meat as demonstrated by their hunting practices and pronounced canines but have also been seen to forage, demonstrating their consumption of plants and other produce. Their society includes hunters and gatherers with incipient agriculture.

Exploration and Adventure

The Na'vi language is almost entirely oral, although the Na'vi also utilize sign language and body gestures to communicate. The common Na'vi tongue has remained largely unchanged for thousands of years; although dialects of Na'vi exist, they are all unmistakably variants of the same root. Theories as to why the Na'vi language has remained so consistent vary and point to the Na'vi's oral storytelling traditions, their early domestication of flying mounts allowing them to travel quickly, and the Pandoran neural network, which allows clans to stay connected to one another across vast distances. Na'vi brain structure and memory is also proposed to play a part in this phenomenon.

 

Part of the clan's oral tradition is the songcord, a mnemonic device that aids in oral recounting. These intricately strung strings of beads and other objects represent a Na'vi's personal history. Whenever a significant event happens in their life, they add an item to the cord. Larger songcords can represent entire families and clans or recount sets of data. Song in general is especially important to the Na'vi, with much of their history being recounted through ancient songs known as way, and the earliest accounts of their society documented in the First Songs.

HUMAN RELATIONS

When the humans began to search Pandora for valuable minerals, the Na'vi were appalled and angered by the destruction of their jungle home for roads, human bases and strip mines. They saw no need for technology and felt that the damage done by humans in the pursuit of underground minerals was nothing more than senseless destruction that violated the basic tenets of their religion. They would look to Eywa for help, but their religion teaches that Eywa cares not for the existence of any one creature, she cares only for the balance of nature.

 

Na'vi clans exist in every biome of Pandora, and each has its own unique culture, sometimes even unique physiology. Despite their differences and distance from one another, clans stay interconnected through trade and tradition. Although they are largely independent, different clans from distant areas will cooperate in times of a great crisis. The only known event that has caused all clans to join together is when they are led by a Toruk Makto, a Na'vi who has managed to ride and control a great leonopteryx and, in doing so, unite all clans under them. By the year 2154, this has only occurred five times in their history and the last Toruk Makto lived four ancestral generations ago.

 

Subrace

Although scientists consider the Na'vi to be a single species, there is a unique level of diversification and morphological variation among them comparable to domesticated dogs of Earth; they show evidence of rapid evolution to widely varied habitats. An example of this is the Metkayina clan, an oceanic group of Na'vi who have evolved to an aquatic lifestyle by developing fin-like arms and legs, broad, paddle-shaped tails, greener skin with more watery stripes, and blue eyes. Exactly how many subspecies of Na'vi exists is unclear.

Na'Vi Traits

The Na'vi have smooth, iridescent skin appearing largely within the blue color spectrum, ranging from greenish-cyan and turquoise found in the Metkayina clan to deeper blues seen in jungle-fairing Na'vi such as the Omaticaya.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Queue

Most Pandoran life forms possess one or two queues, encased in a "neural whip", a protective layer of skin that houses a set of thin, pinkish tendrils that appear somewhat like hair but are actually extensions of the creature's nervous system. When a creature connects these tendrils with that of another being, an act known to the Na'vi as tsaheylu, it enables mental communication between the two entities and the sharing of information, including memories, emotions, and sensory input. This connection doesn't just happen between two creatures, as many florae of Pandora are capable of initiating tsaheylu as well, notably the Tree of Souls and Tree of Voices, which are access points to the Pandoran neural network.

 

 

Age

The average Na'vi life span is longer than that of a human – approximately 30% longer – though they mature more rapidly followed by a plateau of adulthood without physical decline.

Size

Skeleton is reinforced with naturally occurring carbon fiber. Average male is approximately 3 meters (~ 10 feet) tall; females slightly less, average 2.8 meters (~ 9 feet) tall due possibly to evolutionary "size" dimorphism. You are considered a large species.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 50 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Na'vi language. The Na'vi language is almost entirely oral, although the Na'vi also utilize sign language and body gestures to communicate.