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Slender, muscular, and graceful build, with piercings adorning his skin – small rings running from his hip to his navel. He stands over 3 meters tall, with blue skin in a darker shade of azure, overlaid with ash and paint signifying his clan affiliation. The paint wraps around his entire body in black, red, and white colors. His eyes are feline, sharp, and amber-colored, with pointed fangs. He has a long, slender tail and cat-like ears. He is bald on the back of his head, sporting a long braid called a "kuru" decorated with 4 feathers that elegantly protrude from either side of his head. The braid is adorned with silver rings. His face bears scars – one running from his forehead to his right eye, and another from his cheekbone to his upper lip. He has clawed hands.

He is dressed in traditional Na'vi attire: a black, tattered loincloth and a belt with sheaths, worn without upper clothing. He has spiked bracers on his arms, and a strap across his shoulder with a sheath for his machete.

The group piloted a spaceship directly to the RDA's fleet and on the Interstellar Vehicle Venture Star. Once there, they were checked for weapons or any other contraband, and were brought to meet General Ardmore and Charles Stringer. Jake threatened to destroy the unobtanium left behind from the war and the various structures as leverage to get the organization to surrender peacefully. He told Frances Ardmore that if the RDA were to step foot on Pandora, every living thing would be united to drive them away. Talks for a diplomatic agreement briefly started which Stringer supported, but once again ended in failure; Jake claimed the organization would simply never hold their end of a treaty and Ardmore made it clear the RDA no longer had interest in any sort of diplomatic solution.

This soon led to a violent conflict on the spaceship when Jake ordered one of the structures on Pandora to be destroyed. However, what Jake and his team did not expect was that a human in their group had been secretly working to sabotage the plan. The explosives were soon disarmed and several of their allies on the moon were neutralized. With this, the RDA began to set foot on Pandora en masse, reclaiming Hell's Gate while Jake and his allies were forced to retreat.

The RDA eventually disembarked into the atmosphere and rather than staying in orbit. They used the powerful engines of the spaceship which created firestorms that burned the forest down and killed many of the animals residing there. After the forest burned down, the organization sent down their Landing Modules into the glowing rubble of the burned forest which contained numerous RDA soldiers and machines including AMP drivers and the bulldozers. They proceeded to clear away the remains of the forest and started the construction on Pandora, soon setting up Bridgehead.

The growing resistance was noticed by the organization who attempted to silence them and the Na'vi by launching a preemptive attack to destroy the Tree of Souls. The resistance led Jake Sully and Neytiri worked together to rally approximately 2000 Na'vi from 15 clans alongside like-minded humans to defend from this attack. The RDA lost the subsequent battle and a majority of them were expelled from Pandora, sent back to Earth. Those that remained were largely loyal and/or sympathetic to the Na'vi, taking up residence the RDA base Hell's Gate and eventually making a home for themselves there.

However, the RDA returned 14 years later due to the fact that Earth was left in ever worsening condition with numerous lives trapped there. The organization came in ten heavily armed spaceships with their arrival having been detected by those on Pandora. The new head administrator Charles Stringer along with general Frances Ardmore broadcasted a transmission and threatened the occupants of Hell's Gate to surrender and be given amnesty, or die. After the RDA made their video broadcast, Jake urged everyone at Hell's Gate to stick with their plan to fight them. Despite this, most humans decided to surrender; a group vote had been cast and more than half of them decided to do so, though some decided to fight with the Na'vi.

The Resistance refers to a group of people, including Na'vi and some humans, who are opposing the RDA since the organization's return to Pandora in 2168. The group was involved in the Second Pandoran War and was part of the Skirmish at the Three Brothers and the Colonization of the Western Frontier.

Opposing Frances Ardmore and her mission to make Pandora the new home for those on Earth, their mission is to protect Pandora from the RDA's colonization and environmentally harmful practices. While the Resistance view themselves as the peacekeepers of Pandora, the RDA brands them as eco-terrorists according to Solar Unity Law. The RDA intends to kill Jake Sully due to him being a major war leader of the Resistance, which would greatly destroy Resistance morale and interrupt their plans.

The origins of the Resistance date back to 2154 due to the events of the Pandoran War. Relations between the Na'vi and the RDA were originally peaceful but tensions formed due to the latter's more destructive practices such as bulldozing the Tree of Voices in the forests of Pandora.

Conflicts between the RDA and the Na'vi ignited when attempts for a diplomatic agreement between the two resulted in failure, and violence escalated on both sides. The Na'vi began attacking RDA machinery and killing their members. Meanwhile, the RDA had given up on diplomacy in response to this and shifted to using forceful methods. This resulted in several humans turning away from the organization and forming a resistance with the Na'vi to aid them in driving away the RDA.

The recombinants are approximately identical to normal avatars, and have physical traits of both Na’vi and humans. The key difference is that Recom are not psionically driven by a human, but have backup memories and identities of human candidates loaded directly into their consciousness through the use of a special link device known as Soul Drive. This makes them completely autonomous beings and essentially genetically modified clones of their former human beings, inheriting the memories (up to the time of backing), the abilities and personalities developed during the previous life of that human. Recom soldiers are known as “recombinant warriors” or simply “Recom warriors.” Thanks to their Na’vi physiology, Recom warriors can move through Pandora to a large extent without being detected as an alien threat to Eywa, and they can avoid triggering their “immune response” in which Eywa sends his wildlife after them. They also have tails, which allows them to access the moon’s neuroanl network and even domesticate Pandoran animals (such as banshees and direhourses) through tsaheylu, thus eliminating the need for vehicular deployment and turning them into even better infiltrators.

Like the Na’vi and the Avatars, the Recom can operate within facilities with human air; however, due to the lower levels of carbon dioxide compared to those in Pandora’s atmosphere, the Recom must take “sips” of supplemental carbon dioxide every minute or two of the AAS-RO2 Atmospheric Adaptation System.

A Recombinant, or Recom, is a completely conscious human/na’vi hybrid soldier, which has the recorded memories and personality traits of an individual human incorporated, and therefore does not need to be controlled remotely from a link unit as an avatar. The 1st Recom Unit is the main “muscle” of the RDA’s Sec-Ops and the group of special operations forces, which receives orders directly from the highest ranks of the RDA and assists in any extraordinary circumstances. Miles Quaritch acted as squad leader along with Wainfleet as second in command. The organization commissioned them to hunt down and eliminate Jake Sully, the leader of the Resistance.The recombinants are approximately identical to normal avatars, and have physical traits of both Na’vi and humans. The key difference is that Recom are not psionically driven by a human, but have backup memories and identities of human candidates loaded directly into their consciousness through the use of a special link device known as Soul Drive. This makes them completely autonomous beings and essentially genetically modified clones of their former human beings, inheriting the memories (up to the time of backing), the abilities and personalities developed during the previous life of that human. Recom soldiers are known as “recombinant warriors” or simply “Recom warriors.” Thanks to their Na’vi physiology, Recom warriors can move through Pandora to a large extent without being detected as an alien threat to Eywa, and they can avoid triggering their “immune response” in which Eywa sends his wildlife after them. They also have tails, which allows them to access the moon’s neuroanl network and even domesticate Pandoran animals (such as banshees and direhourses) through tsaheylu, thus eliminating the need for vehicular deployment and turning them into even better infiltrators.

An avatar (Na’vi name: uniltìrantokx, meaning “dream walker”) is a genetically designed human/Na’vi hybrid body, designed to serve as a remote-controlled container for a human mind.

The human candidates selected from the Avatar Program funded by the RDA, known as drivers, can connect psionically with their avatar bodies, which use their human DNA as part of the genetic templates and look a lot like the facial features of the drivers themselves. Avatars are used to explore Pandora without the need for exopacks to breathe air that would be poisonous for humans and to interact more easily with Na’vi natives.

The fully developed avatar has an appearance much closer to the Na’vi with long limbs than to a human. The typical size of an adult varies from nine to ten feet (2.75m to 3m) in height with blue skin, bioluminescent marks and large eyes with golden irises. The mobile ears, a tail and the Na’vi tail, a unique set of nerve endings normally braided in a hair-like configuration that protrudes from the base of the skull and called Kuru, reproduce faithfully to be almost identical to those of the Na’vi. Breathing, musculoskeletal structure, function and arrangement of internal organs are comparable to those of the Na’vi, allowing sustained precision operation in Pandora’s hostile atmosphere and jungle environment.

The Na’vi wear little clothes and don’t seem to worry about showing a lot of skin. They cover their genital region and women do cover their breasts and nipples, but often only a little. It is common for men and children to be almost completely shirtless. Clothing also seems to show the growth and progress one makes in one’s clan, with clan leaders and other high-ranking individuals using a greater number of pieces that are often brighter and more intricate than the average or younger members of the clan. This tends to emphasize the Na’vi as unique individuals while maintaining their identity within the style of their clan. Accessories are added to a Na’vi’s outfit as they make their life journeys and milestones. For example, Jake Sully, as an apprentice member of the clan, only wore an undecorated loind hand; however, as he learned more about Na’vi culture, he wore bracelets and necklaces to show off his role. After completing Uniltaron, he got a girdle. It is known that some Na’vi adorn themselves with tattoos and body paint, and are proud of their clothing as a form of artistic self-expression. That is why it is common for the Na’vi to learn to make their own clothes or receive them as a gift from their loved ones. As a result, clothing usually symbolizes aspects such as celebration, family love, friendship and life’s achievements.An avatar (Na’vi name: uniltìrantokx, meaning “dream walker”) is a genetically designed human/Na’vi hybrid body, designed to serve as a remote-controlled container for a human mind.

The human candidates selected from the Avatar Program funded by the RDA, known as drivers, can connect psionically with their avatar bodies, which use their human DNA as part of the genetic templates and look a lot like the facial features of the drivers themselves. Avatars are used to explore Pandora without the need for exopacks to breathe air that would be poisonous for humans and to interact more easily with Na’vi natives.

The Na’vi (English: The People) are a kind of intelligent humanoids that inhabit the lush moon of Pandora. Although the Na’vi are hunter-gatherers with a technology equivalent to that of the Paleolithic era of the Earth, along with a society that is essentially Neolithic, with very intelligent. The Na’vi and the Tulkun are the only known extraterrestrial species that have been discovered to have a level of wisdom equivalent to that of humans. The Na’vi should not be confused with similar-looking avatars either. The lifestyles of the Na’vi clans are very varied, they have their own traditions and beliefs and have developed sophisticated cultures. Despite this, they all share a deep spiritual connection with other forms of life on their moon, among themselves and with a “goddess” who embraces them and whom they call Eywa. The Na’vi are involved in a violent war with the Resource Development Administration composed of humans from planet Earth. The war began after the organization tried to collect a rare mineral known as unobtanium and failed to negotiate a peaceful solution. The conflicts intensified and led the RDA to destroy the Tree of Voices and, later, the native tree of the Omatikaya clan. In the end, the Na’vi defeated the RDA and expelled them from Pandora back to Earth, winning the War of Pandora. However, the RDA returned fourteen years later to colonize Pandora completely due to the worsening conditions on Earth, which started the Second Pandoran War. Some clans have allied themselves with like-minded humans to form The Resistance and fight against colonization efforts.

They hold an extreme amount of resentment toward Eywa following the volcanic disaster. Many members of the clan came to the belief she is a tyrannical and selfish entity, unworthy of worship or respect. They also believe that by rejecting and actively opposing her, they have opened their eyes and become a far stronger clan. While their strength is undeniable, this mindset has caused the Mangkwan to adopt twisted, ruthless, and sadistic personalities.

Fire lies at the center of their culture, effectively becoming a religion, and they view the element as a source of power and inspiration.[7] Varang claims that fire is the only truly pure thing left in the world. A totem within their village stands as a symbol of their defiant independence.

The Mangkwan eat more meat compared to other clans, since fruits spoil before they can be transported into their wasteland stronghold, and they lack the patience and soil for farming. Mangkwan hunt and kill their food as individuals, only sharing with those who help in the killing of the animal.
Na’Vi are humanoids in general in their anatomy, although they also have feline characteristics such as flat, forked noses, large and round eyes, pointed ears that can move independently and a long and prehensile tail used to grip and balance. The neck is long and the body is thin, with a narrow, elongated waist and broad shoulders that create a V-shaped upper back. Despite their thin proportions, their muscles are drastically defined and have about four times the strength of even the strongest human. The Na’vi use their superior strength, agility and strange sense of balance to climb trees, rocks and other obstacles with ease. In the unlikely case of a fall, they usually escape unharmed, since their bones are reinforced with a type of natural carbon fiber. Clearly separating them from humans, native Na’vi has only four digits on each hand and foot, including a thumb and the opposite thumb.

After rejecting Eywa, it is said that they began accepting outcast Na’vi who had murdered other Na’vi. Unlike most Na'vi clans that are strictly hereditary, the Mangkwan are known to welcome and recruit exiles and outcasts from across Pandora. Major Na'vi tribes range from several hundred to over a thousand members. The Mangkwan appear to be on the larger end of this spectrum, or even bigger, due to their aggressive expansionist nature and the diverse origins of their members.

They cover themselves in grey and white ash, painting their bodies with red and black to symbolize what they see as their rejection of Eywa.[2] Many members appear nearly bald, with shaved or thinning hairstyles, and are marked by piercings and other body modifications. The Mangkwan hunt using direhorses, which they decorate in the clan’s colors, and many other members have been seen flying nightwraiths.

The Mangkwan are atypical among Na’vi clans in that, while most Na’vi revere the natural world, the Mangkwan are described as being openly disconnected from it.[6] They show little respect for their mounted animals despite being bonded with them and do not care when they perish. This is taken to such an extent that they hardly care when their own clan members die, and some are even willing to sacrifice themselves.

The clan does not follow the Great Balance or the Three Laws of Eywa. They openly cut down trees to spite Eywa and no longer feel guilt for doing so after turning away from her, and the harvested wood is used to build their yurts. The clan eagerly and has no qualms with wielding human weapons, not following the belief that touching metal poisons one's heart.

The Mangkwan join with the RDA to find Jake at Awa'atlu, abducting him to Bridgehead. There, the Mangkwan are given a camp near the perimeter.

During the Battle at the Cove of the Ancestors, many Mangkwan assisted Varang in the fight, and were either injured or killed in the conflict.

Members of the Mangkwan clan form a coalition force with the RDA to attack the Aranahe clan in the Western Frontier. They destroy the clan's hometree and surrounding Kinglor Forest territory with a devastating fire attack before invading the area to attack the survivors.

Very little was known about the Mangkwan lifestyle and traditions prior to the volcanic eruption. Even before that event, however, they already had a reputation for hostility and were largely avoided and shunned by most other Na’vi. Over time, they became conquerors and aerial pillagers, tormenting nearby villages for resources. They believe that power and might are the keys to survival, and they are willing to do anything to ensure their continued existence.

The Mangkwan are depicted as a formidable force capable of launching massive raids on other large groups, such as the Tlalim clan or Wind Traders, and their flying ships. Their alliance with the RDA also bolsters their numbers tremendously through shared logistics, weapons, and transport.

Following the attempt on Jake Sully's life during the First Blood ritual, Ateyo, Artsut, and their son Arvok were exiled from the Omatikaya clan. They set out on a journey in search of the Mangkwan clan, who could receive them despite their crimes. During a break in their journey, an argument broke out, as a result of which Arvok separated from his parents to go his own way instead of going with them. In turn, Ateyo and Artsut went on to the Mangkwan clan, though it is unknown if they found and were accepted into their ranks.

When Peylak and the Tlalim clan are transferring Miles Socorro and Jake's family back to High Camp via airship, Varang and the Mangkwan attack them.

Some time after, the clan stalks the Sully children in a rainforest and temporarily hold them captive, but they escape. However, Varang learns how to use weaponry and meets Recom Quaritch.

Later, Quaritch and Lyle Wainfleet arrive at the clan with RDA weapons, hoping the clan can assist them in locating Spider. After Wainfleet snipes one of Varang's clan members, she compliments Quaritch for performing a decent trick against her. While Quaritch and Varang are alone, he offers to be her equal, and claims he can provide her with ultimate weaponry to dominate all the other Na'vi clans. Quaritch provides the clan weapons such as flamethrowers.

The Mangkwan clan once lived in ways not much different from the Omatikaya. However, they had a history of hostility and were avoided and shunned by most Na'vi.[2]

There once was a gigantic hometree in the center of their village. However, a volcanic eruption had befallen them, turning their hometree into a charred stump and their village into a desolate place of ash. This incident horrifically killed many of their clan members, and they suffered brutal ends as people died from burning to death, experiencing great suffering.

The Mangkwan prayed and begged Eywa for help, but she never came, and the clan began to wonder what the purpose was of honoring a deity and a force that was unable to save them from torment. Tragically, the Mangkwan were unable to understand that Eywa is a sentient consciousness around the biological system of Pandora and can only balance out life; she has no control of the whole moon and could not protect them from this catastrophe.

Although the clan has struggled immensely and still has unresolved trauma due to their suffering, Varang, who was a little girl during the eruption, eventually pulled them out of their misery and saved many of them from succumbing to starvation, becoming a hero of her people. Regardless, they have a dark and hostile perspective on the world. As such, their survivors grew to resent nature and everything held dear by forest-based Na'vi, including Eywa.

He beseeched Varang to let him lead the warband, and vowed to not only set the Kinglor Forest ablaze, but to bring So’lek’s head back to Varang.However, things are never that simple with the Mangkwan clan. While the team is it’s him are proficient and dutiful to Varang, there is an undercurrent competitiveness and rivalry among the team that Wukula rises above. His focus is only on So’lek.

For Wukula, the news of So’lek is a sign. Eyes has once placed this Na’vi in this path to stop him - but this time, Wukula is stronger and smarter. The death of So’lek will be the next step on the path walked by him and his clan. From there will come the destruction of the Kinglor Forest and the subjugation of the Western Frontier, displaying the Mangkwan clan’s power and asserting their dominance over Pandora.
The Mangkwan Clan, also known as the Ash People, is a Na'vi clan led by Varang, who is considered both its Olo'eykte and Tsahìk.[1] They are based in Ash Village, which is located on the ruins of a forest that was destroyed during a volcanic eruption. They are the secondary antagonists in Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Unlike other Na'vi, the Mangkwan resents Eywa and rejects her blessing in favor of a cultish worship of fire. Members of the clan are violently hostile towards other Na'vi clans such as the Tlalim and the Aranahe. They act as ruthless aerial pirates who pillage for resources, often torturing and killing captured survivors by cutting off neural queues.

Following the Second Pandoran War, the Mangkwan joined forces with Recombinant Miles Quaritch and became auxiliary raiders for the Resources Development Administration. Armed with firearms (which they regard as "thunder"), flamethrowers and communication equipment from the RDA, they aim to take down the Resistance and dominate all other Na'vi clans, with the ultimate ambition to "spread their fire" across the whole Pandora.

Wukula was a Na'vi of the Mangkwan Clan and the leader of the assault against the Western Frontier. Near the yurt of Varang in the Ash Village stands a totem of Na’vi skulls in her honor. All of those were defeated by Wukula.

He, along with Major Tyler Bukowski, leads the Mangkwan-RDA coalition in besieging the Kinglor Forest. He appears to have a grudge against So'lek because So’lek almost killed him once, leaving a long scar in Wukula’s chest.

So'lek and Wukula have a knife fight in which the latter is killed.
For as long as Varang has held sway over the Mangkwan, Wukula has carried out her commands as one of her most proficient warriors. Wukula is a dangerous foe - a true believer. A fanatic devoted both to Varang and his own belief in the Mangkwan clan’s unique destiny on Pandora.

Wukula has more a fatalistic understanding of the Mangkwan clan’s place in the world than most of his kind. In his eyes, the Mangkwan are the evidence that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger - every struggle and torment the Mangkwan endure, as individuals and as a clan, move them once step further towards their ultimate destiny: to fulfill their own will over serving Eywa.

Years ago, during his travels across Pandora, So’lek encountered Wukula with a raiding party of Mangkwan Na’vi. The two of them came to blows. Wukula was a ferocious opponent, but So’lek was as able to wound him sufficiently so that he could make his escape - scarring him across his chest. Doing so, however, caused So’lek to lose his Trr’ong knife, and Wukula kept be knife as a trophy - a knife that he still wears. Wukula welcomed the scar he bore from the encounter. It served as a reminder of his purpose - to defeat those Na’vi whom he saw as Eywa’s champions, and who stand in opposition to the Mangkwan. Na’vi like So’lek.

When Coronel Miles Quaritch ordered Bukowski to eliminate the Western Frontier Resistance with a warband of Mangkwan, Wukula’s interest was picked by the mention of So’lek.