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This is the clearest picture I could find.

So Spider seems to have a Metkayina tattoo, it appears after the Sully family has returned to Awa’atlu. If I recall correctly it can be first seen when Spider bonds with an ilu for the first time.
I was wondering, where did this tattoo come from? When did he get it?
I can’t really see the Metkayina giving him a tattoo, considering Ronal’s opinion and also how sacred and important these tattoos are to their culture. I also can’t see Spider painting one on himself like he does with the stripes, considering that the tattoo has to be earned.

Considering the placement and going off what we know about the meanings behind the tattoos of the Metkayina, a tattoo on the arm would represent the outer seawall and would be given to reef na’vi that often spend time in the open ocean, for example a skilled deep-sea hunter would have more tattoos on the arms and legs instead of the chest (which represents the safe embrace of the lagoon and the island) or the face (which is given once a Na’vi has come of age).
Perhaps it could have been given to him due to the gift Eywa granted him? The shape sort of resembles an eye and it is placed on the arm, so it could bear the meaning of “an outsider that passed through the eye of Eywa”, while still not giving him a face tattoo due to him not being considered an adult and also not being formally part of the Metkayina.
I still struggle to see it this way though, given how Ronal feels towards anything sky-people related and, since she is Tsahìk, she would have the final say on the matter.

What do you guys think?

As I was rewatching Fire and Ash I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of Windtraders seem to have extremely long kurus. They wrap their kurus around their bodies and necks multiple times to hold them in place against strong winds, and despite that most of them still hang pretty low on their back. If you try to visualise their kurus unwrapped they would reach very low, I’d dare to say even past their knees, which is a lot compared to all the other Na’vi characters.
While there are some Na’vi that seem to have a longer than average kuru (Ronal is the only example that comes to mind, really) the Tlalim seem to generally have extremely long kurus compared to other Na’vi. I wonder why?

I know this is a very nitpicky detail to notice, but I wonder if it was a deliberate design choice and if there is an in-lore reason to explain this.

Given that we have little information about their actual culture and ways of life, I was wondering what you guys think about the Tayrangi and what their culture and practices might be like.

I find it particularly interesting that while they are a clan of forest Na’vi, they have a deep bond with the sea and heavily rely on it, going as far as hunting huge sea animals like the nalutsa, while still living on the edges of and i presume relying on the forest.
I wonder how this duality of environments might have shaped their materials, foods, shamanic and herbal knowledge, traditions, rites and practices in general.

This is the only canon image of what (part of) the continents of Pandora look like, I was wondering where you guys think the events of the films take place.

The only canon information (as long as I am aware) that we have is that the Metkayina are a 5-hour ikran flight north-east from the Omatikaya, and that the Frontiers of Pandora game takes place in the Western Frontier, which is said to be on another continent West to the Omatikaya rainforest.

This post is to purely have fun, speculate and share theories and headcanons. I am well aware we can’t really do much with the information we have, but it’s always fun to theorise!