The Tali People

This article is about the Tali, the people of Talavin.

Before the Connection
Way back when, there had been no people called the "Tali". They would only develop into an actual culture much later, about fifty years before the Connection.

Before Nox was connected to the Other World, Noxians were frequently going out in shuttles to explore the galaxy. The people who would later found the Tali were space travellers and explorers, who took their rockets and ships into space to discover planets long forgotten. Those planets had been inhabited by races who were connected to Souls from birth, however, they went extinct long ago. The explorers collected relics, objects, art, knowledge, animals and plants, and anything else they could possibly transport or document, and brought it back to Nox. There they decided to collect everything in one place, though still keeping it available for everyone.

They founded a place called Talavin, the name of an old menagerie they had found on one of the planets, where they built museums, galleries, and living spaces. Dozens, then hundreds of people went there, sometimes moved there altogether, to share their knowledge over discoveries as well as information on different cultures, geography, religion, and anything worth mentioning. They built a huge community, a giant network of information, and along with it they built Talavin into a spectacular city. Some areas were dedicated to a single culture, Nox-based or not, whereas others combined multiple to create something new, though still keeping the beauty of it all in harmony. Each culture was represented, gardens were created, menageries opened, galleries and museums fused with living and working spaces. Eventually, the people started calling themself Tali and gained world-wide respect for their work.

After the Connection
When Nox was connected to Etherium, life on the earth-like planet changed completely, especially for the Tali. Due to the storms that immersed the entire planet, creating a sort of cloud cover that blocked anything from going through (communication links, shields, weapons, ships ...), they were incapacitated of their ability to launch into space. There was no chance they could continue discovering the galaxy now, and the space crafts that went extinct became parts of huge collections, sometimes were fused with the architecture of Talavin as a part of history, extinction.

With the inability to explore outside of Nox came a saving grace: a new world full of new exiting information connected directly to them, Etherium. Still tending to all their previous works, a lot of Tali now started hunting down any information they could get on the ageless world, on Souls and Anchors, on gods and the way everything worked. They documented  Anchors telling about their experiences, about the abilities of those connected to Souls. The Tali were responsible for finding universal terms for everything, and their work was essential in editing the cultures on Nox to adjust to this huge change.

To this day, the Tali are known to be the most universally knowledgable, as well as the most curious people out there, and they are respected in their work. Due to the heritage of their culture as Tali, they still accept those born in different cultures to join their community. The Tali have an elaborate educational system, highly based on history and its benefits today, and they see great use in having their students travel across Nox in times of peace. They also burn the bodies after death, keeping the ashes of each Tali in a gigantic urn at the heart of Talavin.