The Sarentu were a clan of traveling storytellers. The clan was founded by Entu, the first Toruk Makto and former Omatikaya member. They lived among different clans as if they were one of them, learning about each clan’s ways and sometimes reflecting an outsider’s perspective back to the clan. Respected diplomats, the Sarentu were often able to settle disputes within and between clans.
Once a year, the Sarentu left the clan they lived with to attend the Sarentu moot—an annual gathering—where the Sarentu would swap tales of their lives, regale their families with interclan stories and petition their elders to be allowed to either stay in their current clan or go somewhere new. Children of the clan were marked with a small family sigil under one eye, making it impossible to hide who they were and drawing attention from Na’vi seeking a sympathetic ear wherever they went.
The Sarentu were almost entirely massacred by the Sky People during their moot in the Clouded Forest in 2138. The last known survivors of the clan were a handful of children abducted by the Sky People; through them, the clan was able to live on as they relearned what it meant to be Na’vi.
Faint memories of early childhood, stories of their clan passed to them from the surrounding clans, and the Sarentu totems found across the landscape all allowed the children to reconnect with their heritage.
In particular, the song of the Sarentu kept their spirit alive.
Here is the traditional song of the Sarentu:
| Awnga lu Sarentu, Na’vi(yä) ayvurit peng, Layro, txur, txopuluke, Lante ka kifkey, Var awnga yivora’, Nìt’iluke emrayey.
Awnga lu Sarentu, |
We are Sarentu, We tell the stories of the People, Free, strong, fearless, We wander the world, We continue to prevail, We will survive forever.
We are Sarentu, |