They are the Talmanjahr, but to the few who know of their existence, they are called the Protectors, the Keepers of 'Haki' (The Way of Man).Now a tribe of powerful and fierce warriors, they did not begin that way. Before their ascension the Protectors were the remains of tribes decimated by an expansionist army, which left only small children and women in their wake.One of that army, a commander named Talman, took pity on the refugees. He knew they would not survive as they were. So he gathered the scattered remnants into a single nameless tribe. As it was common at the time for each tribe to speak their own tongue, Talman taught them ways that they could mimic the sounds and movements of th...