Editing Aran (section)

{{Related|Hea Arantah}}
{{Character Summary
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 |               Name = Aran, aka Aranpuh, aka Hea Arantah
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* [[Tumerok]]
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* [[Hea Tumerok]]
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* [[Portal Year Era]]
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Tumerok names are composed of three parts in a specific order: xuta (tribe) name, given name, and title/role within the xuta. Aran therefore became Aranpuh (where puh means outcast or rebel (literally “closed-mouth”) ) and Hea Arantah (where Tah' means chieftain) according to the viewpoint taken. <ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM_CD_Lore/Bestiary/Derethian_Bestiary#Tumeroks|Bestiary: Tumeroks]]</ref>

At some point prior to 0 PY,<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> <ref name=HistoryofFortWitshire>1999/11 [[Release]] - [[History of Fort Witshire]]</ref> the Virindi discovered the Tumeroks trapped on Marae Lassel.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> The cloaked creatures struck a deadly bargain with [[Aranpuh]], an embittered young outcast.<ref name=TahAhurenga>2001/10 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[The Tah of Ahurenga]]</ref> Aranpuh was taken and altered – perhaps the same alteration chronicled by the Aluvian [[Candeth Martine]] and possibly by Aerbax itself <ref name=DestructionsAndBeginnings> 2003/01 [[The Slumbering Giant]] - [[Destructions and Beginnings]]</ref>) to look more human. So empowered, Aranpuh returned with a host of other angry young Tumeroks, and seized control of the Hea tribe.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/>

After Aran successfully took control of the Hea tribe of Tumeroks and gained the name [[Hea Arantah]] <ref name=TahAhurenga/>, all of his new tribesmen were altered in the same way. At some point after the alteration of the Hea, but before the Hea invaded the mainland (though after 0 PY<ref>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM CD Lore/Early Dereth Texts/Lilitha's Bow|Lilitha's Bow]]</ref><ref>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM CD Lore/Early Dereth Texts/The Legend of Lilitha|The Legend of Lilitha]]</ref>)

In return for doing the bidding of the Virindi, the Hea are granted Virindi weapons and passage to the freedom of mainland Dereth. But there was one last condition of this bargain. In order to serve as “infiltrators,” the Virindi altered the bodies of the Hea from their natural form to something more….human.<ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/> <ref name=PaintingTumerok>2010/06 [[Shifting Gears]] - [[Tumerok (Town Network Painting)]]</ref> It is “[[Hea Arantah]]'s” warriors who have bedeviled humans for so long. <ref name=AC:DMBestiaryTumerok/>

Aran as Hea Arantah now resides in [[Ahurenga]], home of the Hea Tribe.<ref name=TahAhurenga/>