Tehaina (culture)
The Tehaina are the northwestern branch of the Nakahanii people, who had arrived to the Night Coast in the Aukalion Tutil of the 7th century. The Tehaina trace their roots to the supporters of Ha'ulili 'the Kind', one of the three rival pretenders that emerged in the succession crisis that followed the murder of King Kaiatu 'the Navigator' and the monarch's adoptive son.
The most divergent of the Nakahanii branches, the Tehaina have intermixed heavily with the natives of the region, most of all the Lainar, who had famously welcomed Ha'ulili's stormed-damaged fleet into their protection. Like the other Nakahanii, they are impressive seafarers, and even more impressive divers - with many Tehaina families making a living by scouring the warm, luminescent seabeds of the Night Coast for pearls, coral and other bounties of the sea.