Item glossary
Things a traveler can find, wear or carry in Nuitai, and what each one is, with the region where it is most at home.
Worn13
- Putong
- A head cloth wound like a turban or tied like a bandana. A red one marks someone who has fought in battle; an embroidered one, someone who has fought many.
- Bahag
- A loincloth: a long strip of cloth wrapped between the legs and round the waist. Everyday wear for a fighter.
- Tapis
- A wrapped skirt, a cloth tucked at the waist.
- Malong
- A tube of patterned cloth that is a skirt, a cloak, a sling, a hammock or a blanket, worn a dozen ways.
- Baro
- A short collarless shirt or jacket, often worn open.
- Salakot
- A wide cone-shaped hat, woven, sometimes capped in silver or tortoiseshell.
- Sarong
- A wrapped cloth, the everyday garment of the west.
- Songket
- Cloth woven with gold thread. A treasure as much as a garment.
- Batik
- Cloth dyed in patterns with wax.
- Ikat
- Cloth whose threads are dyed before weaving, so the pattern blurs at the edges.
- Kebaya
- A fitted blouse.
- Tengkolok
- A folded head cloth, stiff and shaped, for rank and ceremony.
- Hand wraps
- Cloth wound round the hands and wrists, for fighting and for grip. Worn by nearly every fighter.
Jewelry and charms4
- Lingling-o
- An ear ornament shaped like the letter omega, in jade or gold. Worn by island peoples for two thousand years.
- Kamagi
- A heavy braided gold chain.
- Anting-anting
- An amulet: a medallion, a stone, a written charm, carried for protection or luck. Could be an accessory that gives a status protection.
- Shell money
- Strings of small shell discs, the Fire Islands' money.
Weapons60
- Pedang
- A straight sword, the Bandari fighter's blade. Damar's first weapon.
- Kampilan
- A long single-edged war sword, wide toward a flared, almost squared tip, with a forked hilt. The squarish sword I liked. Ren's first weapon.
- Kalis
- A sword with a wavy blade.
- Barong
- A leaf-shaped blade, heavy at the front.
- Bolo
- An everyday chopping knife, for brush, coconuts and fights.
- Parang
- A heavy chopping blade, the bolo's western cousin.
- Mandau
- A sword with a carved bone or horn hilt and hair tassels. Karvara's first weapon.
- Katana
- A long curved sword. Only for a sword user from the northwest.
- Frying pan
- Kailo's first weapon.
- Shovel
- Sarjana's first weapon, from his digs.
- Mortar and pestle
- Kiki's first weapon, for grinding medicine.
- Uchiwa
- A flat paper fan cooks use to fan a charcoal grill. Cooking things are tools.
- Khakkhara
- A monk's ringed staff; the rings jingle as he walks. The Luminary's.
- Tokotoko
- A carved walking stick, the kind a speaker holds when addressing a gathering. Tawiri's first weapon, hung with feathers.
- Koʻokoʻo
- A staff or a cane. Maika's first weapon.
- Gohei
- A wand hung with folded paper streamers. Hina's first weapon.
- Golden Gohei
- A gohei from the temple of Kota Emas, gilded. The Luminary's first weapon.
- Handwraps
- Cloth wound around the hands for fighting bare-handed.
- Sarashi
- Long cotton cloth wound tight around the hands. Gen'emon's first weapon.
- Siapo Wraps
- Bark cloth wound around the hands. Olola's first weapon.
- Kapa Wraps
- Bark cloth wound around the hands; the name of every Agility handwrap. Kailo's, a drop in the demo.
- Busog
- A bow.
- Fa'avao Bow
- A hunting bow of the Fa'avao hunters. Leilagi's first weapon.
- Hamaya
- A blessed "demon-breaking arrow" from a shrine. Hina's.
- Eku
- A fighting weapon made from a fisherman's oar, also used to flick sand in the eyes. Gen'emon's. The name of every Vitality oar; Kailo's in the demo, his father's, in a chest in their house; his father went to the Kame Kingdom.
- Hoe
- A paddle. Paku's first weapon.
- Oar
- A paddle. Some fighters swing one as a weapon, as the cat person in the Gubat Banwa art does. Paku's first weapon.
- Keris
- The wavy-bladed dagger of the west, the same family as the kalis. Each is believed to hold a spirit, lucky or cursed; old ones are heirlooms with names. Karvara's.
- Karambit
- A curved claw-shaped knife, often carried in pairs. Asap's first weapon.
- Kunai
- Already in the battle test, for Asap's Throw.
- Hunting knife
- Leilagi's, a hand-length knife at a Fa'avao hunter's hip.
- Boomerang
- A curved throwing stick that flies back.
- Ula
- A short Fijian throwing club.
- Wayang
- A Javanese leather shadow puppet, cast on a screen.
- Hitogata
- A paper cutout of a person that carries sickness and bad luck away on a river.
- Karakuri ningyō
- A wind-up mechanical doll that serves tea or shoots arrows.
- Water puppet
- Múa rối nước: a puppet on a pole hidden under water, so it seems to walk on a pond.
- Hula kiʻi puppet
- A puppet danced along with a chant. In the game the Hula Ki'i, the name of every Luck doll; Maika's, a drop in the demo.
- Bulul
- A carved wooden guardian set in a rice barn to protect the harvest.
- Ekeko
- A little doll of plenty hung with tiny copies of what you wish for.
- Flintlock pistol
- One shot, then a long reload. None before the player reaches Bayang.
- Trident
- Ren's prized trident from the depths.
- Tombak
- The Bandari fighter's spear. Damar's.
- Sibat
- A spear.
- Ihe
- A long wooden spear. The name of every Strength spear; Maika's, found in the chief's house in the demo.
- Yari
- A straight spear with a long blade.
- Fishing spear
- What Māla Iki and Fa'avao fishers spear fish with.
- Nifo oti
- "Tooth of death", a hooked war club. Set on fire, it is the blade of the fire knife dance. Olola's.
- Patu
- A short club for jabbing, sometimes of greenstone.
- Leiomano
- A club ringed with shark teeth.
- Macuahuitl
- An Aztec wooden club edged with obsidian.
- Bo
- A long fighting stick with no blade. Gen'emon's type.
- Naginata
- A pole with a curved blade. Out since polearms became bo staffs, which have no blade.
- Taiaha
- A long staff fought with footwork.
- Kagura fan
- The fan shrine maidens dance kagura with. Hina's.
- Tessen
- An iron-ribbed war fan.
- Gunbai
- A commander's signal fan.
- Fire fan
- A fan a fire dancer spins alight. Olola's type.
- Sumpit
- A blowgun with poisoned darts. Blowguns were cut as a type; could be an item.
- Throwing star
- Already in the battle test, for Asap's Throw. Not a weapon type.
Shields3
- Kalasag
- A long wooden shield, taller than wide, carved and painted.
- Taming
- A small round shield.
- Pineapple skin
- In the game the material is Ananá, the Tupi word for pineapple from Brazil, where it comes from. A material, not one object: names come from effects, as in Final Fantasy X, and fire resistance makes a thing ananá. Only a little real basis: fresh skin is thick and wet, so it is slow to catch, but it burns once dry. A familiar tropical thing made strange.
Carried and used5
- Payong
- A parasol, a mark of rank. With streamers, as in the picture, it tells you who matters at a glance. Could be a weapon for a fighter with style.
- Koʻi
- A stone adze, a polished basalt blade lashed to a wooden handle. Kailo's father's, in his chest; it will chop koa wood.
- Kava
- The islands' drink, ground root in water. A healing or calming item.
- Potion
- Gone: Noni, the island's plant medicine, heals in its place, with Kukui, Ti Leaf, 'Ōlena and 'Awa beside it.
- Meat
- Already in the battle test: heals, but vegetarians will not eat it and Genemon only eats fish.
Not in a bag, but named4
- Sarimanok
- Lanuloa's giant riding bird, native to Matahari and brought east by the Bandari.
- Balangay
- A plank boat. The word for a village, barangay, comes from it.
- Karakoa
- A big war boat with outriggers and a fighting deck.
- Vinta
- A sailboat with bright striped sails.
Relic types16
- Niu
- Coconut; the nature material. Its fiber rope lasts in seawater but burns.
- Ananá
- Pineapple; the water material, the one that resists fire.
- Tūhua
- Obsidian, black volcanic glass; the shadow material. Velafi trades it.
- Honu
- The green sea turtle, a guardian spirit; the spirit material.
- Putong
- A head cloth (see Worn above).
- Kūpe'e
- A bracelet.
- Hei
- A neck pendant, as in hei-tiki.
- Hikaw
- An earring.
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- Hibiscus
- The big red flower Hina wears behind her ear.
- Ilang-ilang
- A drooping greenish-yellow flower, the perfume flower. Ylang-ylang is the English spelling; Cananga, from the Malay kenanga, the scientific name.
- Tayabak
- The jade vine, hanging claws of truly turquoise flowers.
- 'Ilima
- Small golden flowers strung by the hundred into royal leis.
- Vanda
- The purple orchid family of the waling-waling, the Philippine "queen of orchids".
- Telang
- Butterfly pea, a deep blue flower used to dye rice blue.