- “The Omatikaya Hometree is the largest and oldest” tree by far. (Pg. 18) It is “over 20,000 years old.” (Pg. 72)
- Ikran and rider “spend months together training and learning how to communicate.” (Pg. 45)
- The Three Laws of Eywa “seem to predate even the legendary Time of First Songs.” (Pg. 56)
- “The older a Na’vi gets, the longer their songcord becomes, as they accumulate important events and moments in their lives. When they die, their songcord is sung by those who loved them most, as a form of mourning and remembrance.” (Pg. 57)
- Na’vi language is a “common tongue that has remained constant over thousands of years of storytelling.” (Pg. 62)
- “The sudden arrival of humans on Pandora was the first time the Na’vi were confronted with the problems of learning a new language.” (Pg. 63)
- “Studies by xenoanthropologists suggest the Na’vi have experienced few evolutionary changes or changes in population numbers for at least 12 million years.” (Pg. 64)
- “Thousands of years later,” after Ralu, Entu, and Tsyal save the Tree of Souls, “the harmony of Pandora is disrupted by the arrival of humans.” (Pg. 65)
- “The Navi’s victory” in driving the humans off Pandora “is only the first of several bitter clashes.” (Pg. 65)
- “Many generations after the great human and Na’vi conflict ends, another, very different human agency, Alpha Centauri Expeditions (ACE) arrives on Pandora and renovates a former RDA base.” (Pg. 65)
- Ralu and Entu “lived many thousands of years earlier.” (Pg. 71)
- “After its destruction by RDA security forces, the Omatikaya decide to wait before claiming a new Hometree.” (Pg. 72)
- “Legend even says that the first Na’vi to bond with a banshee was a member of” the Kekunan Clan. (Pg. 77)
- “Vast grassy plains are roughly a day’s banshee flight away from the Omatikaya’s rainforest.” (Pg. 79)
- “Grace Augustine comes to Pandora nearly three decades before conflict erupts between the Na’vi and the RDA.” (Pg. 104)
- Norm Spellman found “unexpected love,” on Pandora. (Pg. 105)
- Colonel Miles Quaritch was “attacked by a viperwolf on his first day on Pandora.” (Pg. 108)
- Trudy Chacón’s “relationship with scientist Dr. Norm Spellman even becomes romantic.” (Pg. 109)
- “By the 22nd century, human beings have learned to harness the power of superconductive materials like unobtanium.” (Pg. 110)
- “Vehicles are manufactured on-site at Hell’s Gate in a massive 3D-printer facility known as the Grinder.” (Pg. 114)
- “The AMP Suit “is a distant descendant of military exoskeletons first used on earth in the mid-21st century.” (Pg. 117)
- “Generations after the conflict between the Na’vi and the humans of the RDA,” ACE creates UTE Suits for peaceful research and study. (Pg. 117)
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