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Welcome to Sulani
Ahhhh, Sulani! Where the waters are warm and clear, the kava is flowing, and the locals are ready to give you a warm welcome to their island. Speaking of the locals, you’ll want to get to know them, because the inhabitants of Sulani aren’t your typical run-of-the-mill premade Sims. On Sulani, the people value community and building close-knit relationships. That means the people of Sulani will often make your business their business. From giving you a warm island welcome when you arrive, to helping you out with tasks around the island, to running into your home to help put out a fire, it pays to get to know your neighbours here.
The Ngata Household
Household Description
Coming to Sulani for inspiration Leila didn’t expect to fall in love so deeply with the islands. And it wasn’t just the scenery that she fell for, but also for Oliana and her son Tane that welcomed her so easily into their family. The three are now an inseparable trio that call Sulani their home enjoying the sand and ocean at their own pace.
Oliana Ngata
Age: Young Adult
Career: Bodybuilder (5)
Aspiration: Bodybuilder
Walk Style: Tough
Voice: Sweet
Traits: Jealous | Active | Slob | High Metabolism (Bonus)
Skills: Fitness 6 | Handiness 2
Relationships: Leila Illes – Wife | Tane Ngata – Son
Leila Illes
Age: Young Adult
Career: Painter (4)
Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire
Walk Style: Feminine
Voice: Lilted
Traits: Clumsy | Creative | Loves the Outdoors | Muser (Bonus)
Skills: Painting 4 | Photography 2
Relationships: Oliana Ngata – Wife | Tane Ngata – Stepson
Tanes Ngata
Age: Child
Career: Grade School A Student
Aspiration: Whiz Kid
Walk Style: Default
Voice: Warm
Traits: Geek
Skills: Creativity 2 | Mental 4 | Motor 3
Relationships: Oliana Ngata – Mother | Leila Illes – Stepmother
Household Notes
- The Ngata household lives at Reef Finery in the Lani St. Taz district of Sulani.
- The Ngata household is the first premade household in The Sims 4 to feature an openly lesbian couple.
- Even though Oliana and Leila are married, they have different surnames. It appears Leila did not change her surname when she married Oliana.
- Leila is featured in the official reveal trailer. Oliana and Tane can both be spotted briefly in the background of the trailer as well.
- Curiously, there is nothing in the Ngatas’ home that match the interests of the Sims living there. There is no workout equipment for Oliana, no easel or artwork for Leila, and no mentally stimulating activities for Tane.
The Kahananui Household
Household Description
As the self-appointed “Sulani ambassadors” this enterprising couple, Mele and Alika, have decided to live out their golden years in a dream retreat away from the bustle of Ohan’ali Town.
Alika Kahananui
Age: Adult
Career: Business (4)
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Walk Style: Snooty
Voice: Clear
Traits: Snob | Foodie | Self-Assured | Business Savvy (Bonus)
Skills: Charisma 4 | Handiness 4 | Logic 3
Relationships: Mele Kahananui – Wife
Mele Kahananui
Age: Adult
Career: Business (4)
Aspiration: Mansion Baron
Walk Style: Perky
Voice: Melodic
Traits: Materialistic | Outgoing | Neat | Business Savvy (Bonus)
Skills: Charisma 2 | Cooking 4 | Gourmet Cooking 2
Relationships: Alika Kahananui – Husband
Household Notes
- The Kahananui household lives at Journey’s End in the Lani St. Taz district of Sulani.
- Unlike the humble, carefree nature of most of Sulani’s residents, the Kahananuis seem to have completely opposite values and are more focused on materialistic luxuries. This could allow the player to set them up as villains in the world if they so choose.
- The Kahananuis have no children, but their home has two spare bedrooms with single beds.
- Even though they live right next to the ocean, the Kahananuis have a pool on their back deck. This could indicate their obsession with living a more luxurious lifestyle than their neighbours.
- Alika and Mele can be spotted briefly in the official reveal trailer.
The Kealoha Household
Household Description
The Kealohas are the epitome of Sulani: an industrious, welcoming, and tight-knit young family firmly rooted in island tradition to honor the past while supporting the bright future of their extended-family community.
Makoa Kealoha
Age: Young Adult
Career: Conservationist (3)
Aspiration: Successful Lineage
Walk Style: Tough
Voice: Clear
Traits: Active | Ambitious | Child of the Ocean | Domestic (Bonus) | Gregarious (Bonus)
Skills: Fishing 6 | Fitness 4 | Logic 3
Relationships: Lilliana Kealoha – Wife | Nani Kealoha – Daughter | Duane Talla – Acquaintance
Lilliana Kealoha
Age: Young Adult
Career: Conservationist (3)
Aspiration: Big Happy Family
Walk Style: Bouncy
Voice: Sweet
Traits: Good | Family-Oriented | Cheerful | Domestic (Bonus)
Skills: Charisma 3 | Cooking 3 | Mixology 5
Relationships: Makoa Kealoha – Husband | Nani Kealoha – Daughter | Duane Talla – Acquaintance
Nani Kealoha
Age: Toddler
Voice: Sweet
Traits: Charmer
Skills: Communication 3 | Movement 2 | Thinking 2
Relationships: Lilliana Kealoha – Mother | Makoa Kealoha – Father | Duane Talla – Acquaintance
Duane Talla
Age: Teen
Career: High School C Student | Lifeguard (2)
Aspiration: Angling Ace
Walk Style: Swagger
Voice: Warm
Traits: Goofball | Bro | Collector (Bonus)
Skills: Fishing 3 | Fitness 4 | Mischief 2
Relationships: Lilliana Kealoha – Acquaintance | Makoa Kealoha – Acquaintance | Nani Kealoaha – Acquaintance
Household Notes
- The Kealoha household lives at Kin-Ship in the Ohan’ali Town district of Sulani.
- The Kealohas’ home shows strong indications that the family is active and passionate about the ocean. The family owns two boats and there is a scuba diving equipment rack on their back deck as well as an outdoor shower.
- Makoa has two bonus traits from aspirations, which is unusual. It may be a small oversight, or it may just be a nod to Makoa’s friendly nature.
- Duane is not related to the rest of the household. He has a different surname and is not connected to any of the other household members on his family tree. It is unclear exactly how he came to live with the Kealohas, but it may be implied that they took him in after he was abandoned or orphaned.
- Duane appears to have been inspired by Maui from Disney’s Moana. His physical appearance, personality, and implied back story bear striking similarities to the Disney character. His first name is also similar to Dwayne Johnson, the actor who voiced Maui in the film.
- Makoa is featured in the official reveal trailer. Lilliana, Nani, and Duane can all be spotted briefly in the background of the trailer as well.
Hoapili Household
Household Description
Sitting high above the center of Ohan’ali Town, Keala watches over the townsfolk who look to her for guidance. This spirited, young-at-heart grandmother has taken young Lia under her wing to pass on the knowledge and cultural history of Sulani through the generations.
Keala Hoapili
Age: Elder
Career: Unemployed
Aspiration: Freelance Botanist
Walk Style: Goofy
Voice: Melodic
Traits: Child of the Islands | Erratic | Hot-Headed | Collector (Bonus)
Skills: Cooking 6 | Gardening 5
Relationships: Lia Hauata – Granddaughter
Lia Hauata
Age: Young Adult
Career: Writer (4)
Aspiration: Renaissance Sim
Walk Style: Default
Voice: Lilted
Traits: Bookworm | Gloomy | Perfectionist | Quick Learner (Bonus)
Skills: Guitar 3 | Writing 3
Relationships: Keala Hoapili – Grandmother
Household Notes
- The Hoapili household lives at Cheiftain’s Villa in the Ohan’ali Town district of Sulani. Their lot has the Island Spirits trait.
- Lia is the first premade transgender Sim in The Sims series.
- Lia’s gender is set to female with a masculine body build; however, Lia is able to become pregnant.
- Lia and Keala are connected on the family tree. Keala shows up as Lia’s grandmother and vice versa, however, the parent relationship linking Lia and Keala is left blank. Lia also has a different surname than Keala. This may indicate that Keala’s family ties with Lia are spiritual rather than biological. This is further reinforced by the household bio which states that Keala took Lia under her wing as a pupil.
Don’t see your favourite Sim from the trailer here? Look for them around Sulani! There are only 4 premade households living in lots on Sulani, but the mermaid Sim from the trailer along with other Sims (some of them mermaids as well!) can be seen wandering around as townies. Befriend them and move them in if you like!
Did we miss an important detail about any of these Sims? Let us know about it here in the comments or on social media!
50 Comments
Thanks so much for the in-depth details as always! A lot of these households sound incredibly heartwarming 🙂
I love that they’re adding LGBTQ+ couples and sims in the game! The sims has always made progress with that subject and I think its wonderful!!
AH! I was already planning a sort of love story between Scuba boy (that I now know is called Makoa) and our beautiful mermaid Nalani! XD Now I find out he HAS A WIFE AND A KID!! I dunno if I should laugh or cry!… lmao
Reply to Kyattchan
I know right I was thinking the exact same thing
Reply to Kyattchan
Break them up. Steal her man. >:)
Reply to Kyattchan
At first I was also going to do that (match them up when I saw the trailer) but then “reality” hit with the wife and kids so I thought about having both husband and wife entering a relationship with her instead since I’ve already done a few affairs and never explored a poly sims relationship before. I plan to use WW so the jealousy factor doesn’t play in.
Reply to Kyattchan
Lol, Nalani really man stealer
Reply to Kyattchan
I’ve decided that Lilliana is going to have an unfortunate mermaid-related accident in my game.
Reply to Kyattchan
Ikr
Leila Illes. In catalan (I’m from Catalonia) “illes” means “islands”. I don’t think that surname it’s a coincidence, but I will like to know who picked that name and where it came from. Also my dog’s name is Leyla lol
it probably took the gurus ten seconds to make these families. stop looking for deeper meaning.
Reply to bob newbie
Stop crapping on other people’s passion. 🙂
Reply to SnarkyWitch
Bob is right anyways. These sims don’t look like someone worked real hard on them.
There is no Nalani? :c
Reply to Berry
“Don’t see your favourite Sim from the trailer here? Look for them around Sulani! There are only 4 premade households living in lots on Sulani, but the mermaid Sim from the trailer along with other Sims (some of them mermaids as well!) can be seen wandering around as townies. Befriend them and move them in if you like!”
She’s in the game! Just not living on a lot. I couldn’t find her in the homeless townie section of Manage Households, but I did see her wandering around Sulani. My Sim was able to talk to her like any other Sim. 🙂
Reply to SnarkyWitch
how so?
at Cats and Dogs, and Get Famous, townies are at off-world section
Yay! More LGBTQ+ content!
I’ve always like the backstory of all the locals in all the Sims games.
I don’t understand who Lia is. She’s called a trasngender sim, but she has cis female settings. So is she a cis or a trans lady? She looks like a trans woman, but they can’t get pregnant. Can we get more information about it?
Reply to Elvis
Lia has trans gender settings. She has a masculine body build with a female gender setting. You are right that in the real world, transgender women cannot get pregnant, but I imagine The Sims Team wanted to allow players to play out whatever stories they want with Lia. 🙂 You can change her pregnancy setting in CAS for more realistic play if you like.
thankyou so much for including a trans sim!!
my plan was to create a mermaid and a grandma and grandson who took her in, and then she falls in love with the grandson. But seeing the premade sims, I think it’s going to be Keala who takes her in and Lia will be like a sister to her. Also she will probably fall in love with Duane since he actually looks similar to the grandson I was going to make
“Lia is the first premade transgender Sim in The Sims series.”
Are they? I thought that was the character in the Karaoke Legends household in City Living (their name was darling, I think)?
Reply to Isla
Darling Walsh is a teen, assigned as female at birth, however she is non-binary and has a preference to masculine clothes.
I don’t think you can say that Lia is the first premade transgender sim. Number one, you could argue that Darling from CityLiving is maybe transgender. Number two, If the game doesn’t specifically state her as transgender it’s really just an assumption. The male body type doesn’t have to mean male. There is a woman who has body types that are just more ‘masculine’ than others.
The fact that gender neutrality is becoming a common theme in the game is awesome, so I think we should keep referring to it as neutral/undefined, rather than making determinations. This because I feel like at the end of the day ones gender shouldn’t matter no matter what one wears, how one pees or how they make or not make babies. Meaning, sims are sims, and can be whatever. They don’t need to be labelled. That is up to the player.
“Lia is the first premade transgender Sim in The Sims series.”
Are they? I thought that was the character in the Karaoke Legends household in City Living (their name was darling, I think)?
Reply to Isla
Darling Walsh is a teen, assigned as female at birth, however she is non-binary and has a preference to masculine clothes.
my plan was to create a mermaid and a grandma and grandson who took her in, and then she falls in love with the grandson. But seeing the premade sims, I think it’s going to be Keala who takes her in and Lia will be like a sister to her. Also she will probably fall in love with Duane since he actually looks similar to the grandson I was going to make
it probably took the gurus ten seconds to make these families. stop looking for deeper meaning.
Reply to bob newbie
Stop crapping on other people’s passion. 🙂
Reply to SnarkyWitch
Bob is right anyways. These sims don’t look like someone worked real hard on them.
There is no Nalani? :c
Reply to Berry
“Don’t see your favourite Sim from the trailer here? Look for them around Sulani! There are only 4 premade households living in lots on Sulani, but the mermaid Sim from the trailer along with other Sims (some of them mermaids as well!) can be seen wandering around as townies. Befriend them and move them in if you like!”
She’s in the game! Just not living on a lot. I couldn’t find her in the homeless townie section of Manage Households, but I did see her wandering around Sulani. My Sim was able to talk to her like any other Sim. 🙂
Reply to SnarkyWitch
how so?
at Cats and Dogs, and Get Famous, townies are at off-world section
I don’t understand who Lia is. She’s called a trasngender sim, but she has cis female settings. So is she a cis or a trans lady? She looks like a trans woman, but they can’t get pregnant. Can we get more information about it?
Reply to Elvis
Lia has trans gender settings. She has a masculine body build with a female gender setting. You are right that in the real world, transgender women cannot get pregnant, but I imagine The Sims Team wanted to allow players to play out whatever stories they want with Lia. 🙂 You can change her pregnancy setting in CAS for more realistic play if you like.
AH! I was already planning a sort of love story between Scuba boy (that I now know is called Makoa) and our beautiful mermaid Nalani! XD Now I find out he HAS A WIFE AND A KID!! I dunno if I should laugh or cry!… lmao
Reply to Kyattchan
I’ve decided that Lilliana is going to have an unfortunate mermaid-related accident in my game.
Reply to Kyattchan
Ikr
Reply to Kyattchan
Lol, Nalani really man stealer
Reply to Kyattchan
Break them up. Steal her man. >:)
Reply to Kyattchan
I know right I was thinking the exact same thing
Reply to Kyattchan
At first I was also going to do that (match them up when I saw the trailer) but then “reality” hit with the wife and kids so I thought about having both husband and wife entering a relationship with her instead since I’ve already done a few affairs and never explored a poly sims relationship before. I plan to use WW so the jealousy factor doesn’t play in.
Yay! More LGBTQ+ content!
Leila Illes. In catalan (I’m from Catalonia) “illes” means “islands”. I don’t think that surname it’s a coincidence, but I will like to know who picked that name and where it came from. Also my dog’s name is Leyla lol
I’ve always like the backstory of all the locals in all the Sims games.
thankyou so much for including a trans sim!!
I don’t think you can say that Lia is the first premade transgender sim. Number one, you could argue that Darling from CityLiving is maybe transgender. Number two, If the game doesn’t specifically state her as transgender it’s really just an assumption. The male body type doesn’t have to mean male. There is a woman who has body types that are just more ‘masculine’ than others.
The fact that gender neutrality is becoming a common theme in the game is awesome, so I think we should keep referring to it as neutral/undefined, rather than making determinations. This because I feel like at the end of the day ones gender shouldn’t matter no matter what one wears, how one pees or how they make or not make babies. Meaning, sims are sims, and can be whatever. They don’t need to be labelled. That is up to the player.
Thanks so much for the in-depth details as always! A lot of these households sound incredibly heartwarming 🙂
I love that they’re adding LGBTQ+ couples and sims in the game! The sims has always made progress with that subject and I think its wonderful!!
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