Nawl is an outcast member of the Barrab Tribe in Savage Empire. When the Avatar first met Nawl, he claimed the Avatar was a member of the Haakur Tribe, and refused to believe it possible for him to be a member of any other. Nawl was quite happy to describe himself to the Avatar as a brave and strong warrior, who knew everything and had outsmarted all the other tribes, defeating all of his enemies. Nawl claimed that the Barrab chief Balakai was a great man, and it was his mastery of the blue stone that made the tribe so powerful. Of course, Balakai later admitted that the stones were completely worthless.