Neytiri is an expert warrior, strong healer and very dominating. Neytiri crafted her skills within the forest as an incredible hunter and tracker under her father and olo’eytkan (head of the clan), Eytukan. Neytiri’s mother, Mo’at is the matriarch and tsahìk (or shaman) of the Omatikaya people. In her youth, Neytiri had little interest in her mother’s responsibilities. As second-born, the responsibility to become tsahìk in training or tsakarem fell upon Neytiri’s older sister, Sylwanin. However, after the tragedy of Sylwanin’s death at the hands of the RDA, Neytiri was forced to assume her deceased sister’s duties including her impending betrothal to the olo’eytakan in training, Tsu’tey.