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“While I can’t move the shadow that has fallen across Erdas, I can offer the world a bit more light.”

–Ninani, to Tepin and Anyati in Tale of the Great Beast Ninani[1]


Ninani is a swan Great Beast. She blessed the Greencloaks with Bonding Day Nectar, the only substance known to safely call a spirit animal. In the second series, she is summoned by a girl from Stetriol named Tasha. She also appears in the Spirit Animals Game.

Appearance[]

Ninani is described as white as snow and “as white as the sun”. As a Great Beast, she is very large, with a neck as large as a tree snake, with a woody black beak that is larger Tepin’s arm. She has round, shining eyes.

In spirit animal form, she is described as “a large swan…[with] feathers as white as sunlight on snow.”[2]

Overview[]

Ninani is a beautiful white swan who is known for her kindness. She is also very graceful in comparison to Tasha, who tends to be clumsy. The Greencloaks especially revere her for giving them the Nectar of Ninani. She, Tellun, and the Four Fallen are the Great Beasts who openly ally themselves with the Greencloaks.

Essix's Opinion[]

“I believe that Ninani does her best.”

–Essix to Cabaro about Ninani in Tales of the Great Beasts[3]

Talisman[]

Main article: The Marble Swan

The Marble Swan: It creates the Nectar and quickens your hands.

In the Books[]

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Wild Born[]

Ninani is mentioned by Lenori. When Conor was asked to list all of the Great Beasts (excluding the Fallen), he forgot to mention her.

The Evertree[]

Near the end of the book, Ninani assists Essix by attacking Halawir, then helped Essix, Uraza and Mulop keep Halawir in place so that Arax could ram the eagle into the Evertree and kill him. She later sacrifices herself along with all of the other Great Beasts.

Immortal Guardians[]

Abeke believes Ninani could be one of the re-summoned Great Beasts in Amaya.

Broken Ground[]

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Tales of the Great Beasts[]

While trying to exterminate humans from her territory, Uraza mentions that humans needed to stop bothering her and they should go depend on softhearted Great Beasts that enjoyed meddling in everyone else's business, like Ninani. In Essix's chapter, it states that Ninani seldom spoke and was the kindest and gentlest of all the Great Beasts, in fact during the whole Grand Council all Ninani said was “None of us approve of the Bile.” At the end of the Council when Essix was chastising the Great Beasts that had decided not to fight, she used her insight and believed that, even though Ninani wasn't fighting in the war, she was going to do all she could to prevent the spread of the Bile and preserve Erdas.

Tale of the Great Beast Ninani[]

Ninani appears in a dream to Tepin, and when he pictures her, he achieves a sense of great calm. Tepin seeks her out with the help of Greencloak healer Anyati, and Ninani reveals to them that the bonding sickness cannot be cured but that it could be avoided altogether with her new Nectar, which she gives to Tepin first before he summons a tayra. Ninani also revealed that the Bile was created by a talisman (Gerathon's).

In the Game[]

Ninani appears in a dream before the Final Confrontation, at level 40 of the game's Heroic Quests.

Before you fight Drina, Ninani appears to you as a glowing swan in a dream, telling you that Drina has arrived in Greenhaven. Ninani tells you that you and your spirit animal have made her proud, and calls you “Ninani's Champion.”

After you defeat Drina, Lenori tells you the swan was Ninani, and reveals that in the vision that brought the Greencloaks to the player, Ninani was the one who had spoken to her and named the player as the Keeper.

Trivia[]

  • Ninani's name is pronounced as “ni-nah-nee”.[4]
  • On a quest in Zhong, Gavi finds a lily named Ninani's Lily, a flower claimed to be proof Ninani had been there.[5]
  • Ninani lives on the top of a waterfall in Southern Amaya.
  • “For/By Ninani's grace” is a exclamation commonly said in the Spirit Animals Game.
    • “Ninani's mercy” is also used once.[6]
  • “Thank Ninani” is a exclamation in the The Evertree.
  • Ninani means “who is it” in Swahili.

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. Tale of the Great Beast Ninani, page 32, lines 8-9
  2. Broken Ground, page 2
  3. Tales of the Great Beasts, page 180, line 14-15
  4. Pronunciation Guide
  5. Assist Gavi (Zhong), Game Dialogue
  6. Rescue Desta from Spider Horde, Game Dialogue

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