To help relieve his predicament, they landed near a river in front of a waterfall where Katara offered to begin training him in the art of waterbending. Aang quickly undressed to his red briefs, but Katara told him to remember the reason they were there. Sokka asked what he was supposed to do and Aang told him to clean mud and bugs out of Appa's toes. Katara taught Aang some of her waterbending skills, only to find Aang was faster and better at learning the techniques that took her a long time to learn, causing her to grow jealous.
Aang's waterbending eventually caused all their supplies to wash downstream, and the group was forced to head to a port market to buy new supplies. While at the port, Aang impulsively bought a bison whistle , which did not seem to work, to the chagrin of his friends. They came upon a ship docked with a barker attempting to attract business. The ship's crew was selling items that they acquired by "high risk trading".
Sokka quickly surmised they were pirates. Katara saw a training scroll , featuring several waterbending techniques among their loot, which they were reserving for a wealthy client in the Earth Kingdom.
However, the pirate captain would offer it to them if they had a better offer, specifically, two hundred gold pieces. Aang began to learn waterbending. They left the ship, only to be chased by the crew. The group escaped and found the reason they had been pursued: the pirates wanted the scroll Katara had stolen.
Katara convinced Sokka and Aang to keep the scroll and learn from it. One of the first techniques they attempted was the water whip, a simple technique where water is formed into an elongated shape and snapped at the target. Katara grew even more jealous of Aang as not only did he learn the technique easily, she herself had trouble mastering it. Her jealousy got the better of her; she yelled at Aang angrily, but quickly apologized and gave up the right to use the scroll, handing it over to Aang.
At night, however, she stole the scroll to study the technique again. Zuko joined forces with the pirates to hunt down Aang, and they found Katara late at night practicing the water whip. Zuko captured and tied Katara to a tree, attempting to interrogate her for information on the Avatar, showing her that he held her mother's lost betrothal necklace in his possession, the last tie that she had to her mother.
However, the pirates demanded the scroll; Zuko threatened to destroy it if they did not find Aang. Later, Aang and Sokka were found and captured and were taken to the pirates and Fire Nation ships.
Aang and Sokka discovered Katara bound to a tree surrounded by firebenders. As Zuko and the pirates were about to trade the scroll for the Avatar, Sokka convinced the pirates to sell Aang by revealing to them that he was the Avatar, despite Zuko's attempts to keep it a secret from the pirates. The pirates decided that they wanted to sell Aang to the Fire Lord themselves, and the situation quickly escalated into a battle. During the fight, Aang, Katara and Sokka escaped and hijacked the pirate ship.
Katara and Aang used waterbending to get the pirates' boat into water and sail away, but the pirates, except for their leader, stole Zuko's smaller ship and started chasing after them. They battled the pirates, Katara learning the water whip in the process.
The ship was fast approaching a waterfall. Aang and Katara managed to use waterbending to stop the ship, but the pirates rammed into it with Zuko's boat, sending them falling over, where they were saved by Appa, who heard Aang's bison whistle which was working after all.
Later, Katara gave Aang a full apology, while Sokka revealed that he was able to regain the scroll in the fighting.
Before he gave it to her, he asked what they learned. She said never to steal, except from pirates. Aang and Katara could now practice waterbending. Katara and Sokka began to argue over their chores at their campsite. Aang ended the fight by having them swap chores. Aang stated, "Harsh words won't solve problems, action will. The following day, Aang and his friends came across the largest canyon in the world, the Great Divide , and were planning to fly across on Appa. Aang mediated between the feuding Zhang and Gan Jin tribes.
Just before they left, a man ran up to them and started yelling that they better not leave with the canyon guide because he was there first. He was holding a spot for the rest of his tribe, the Gan Jin , until they could arrive. While waiting, another tribe, the Zhang , arrived, a tribe that the man claimed had been an enemy of his tribe for one hundred years.
The Gan Jin tribe arrived and showed themselves to be prim and proper, while the Zhang tribe was dirty and barbaric. The canyon guide, an earthbender , arrived, and both tribes got into an argument over who got to go first; the Zhangs said they should because they had sick people while the Gan Jins said they should because they had old people.
Aang reached a compromise and suggested that Appa would carry their sick and elderly across, while the two tribes traveled together across the canyon. The canyon guide warned them not to take any food into the canyon, as it would attract dangerous predators. After he demolished a rock shelf so that potential Fire Nation soldiers could not follow them, a canyon crawler attacked.
Aang and his friends fended it off, but the guide's arms were broken, which meant he could not earthbend and therefore they were trapped in the canyon. Both tribes argued some more and finally split up. It is revealed that both tribes brought food into the canyon because they believed that the other tribe must have brought food, thus justifying their actions.
Katara and Sokka each learned one side of the story of the feuding tribes. The Gan Jins told Katara that the forefather of their tribe, Jin Wei , was attacked while transporting the sacred orb during their redemption ritual and robbed by a thief, Wei Jin , from the Zhangs. The Zhangs told Sokka that their ancestor, Wei Jin, saw Jin Wei passed out on the ground and was returning the sacred orb to Jin Wei's tribe when they wrongfully imprisoned him for twenty years. They reached the end of the canyon, where they argued and prepared to fight and end the feud once and for all.
Aang became angry and used airbending to stop the fight, but in the process revealed the food from both tribes, even getting entranced by custard tart, and attracting many canyon crawlers. By working together and throwing bags over the crawlers' heads while they were distracted with food, everyone was able to ride them up the wall and out of the canyon. Aang solved the feud by telling a made-up version of the story that led to the conflict.
Afterward, the two tribe leaders were about to resume their fight. Aang, upon hearing the names of the two tribes' ancestors, revealed that he knew them, and that they were twins. He said that when they were eight and playing a game called " Redemption ".
Jin Wei was running with the ball when he fell; Wei Jin picked it up and started running to the other end of the field when he stepped out of bounds and was put in the penalty box for two minutes. As they met Appa on the other side, Aang happily hugged him, and Appa licked his face.
The Gan Jin leader thanked Aang, only to be repulsed by the saliva on Aang's face. Finally, the tribes made up and continued their journey to Ba Sing Se together as one tribe, along with the guide who had enough of the canyon.
Aang subsequently revealed to his friends that he made up the whole thing, much to their surprise. Aang had a strange dream about his past that clearly troubled him, but did not tell the others. It started happily with Aang, Katara and Sokka unrealistically flying through the skies, but suddenly Aang was alone, trapped in a storm and plunged into the sea. Later, Aang, Katara and Sokka stopped by a market, but realized they were out of food and money. They ran into a fisherman , who hired Sokka, but when he found out that Aang was the Avatar, he yelled at him, saying that "he turned his back on the world.
Katara reprimanded the fisherman for his harsh words and went after Aang, as a horrible storm began brewing. Aang revealed the truth of how he became locked in the iceberg.
Aang started telling the story of his past to Katara, beginning with the day the monks told him he was the Avatar. Burdened with extra training exercises and ostracized from his friends, Aang became confused and afraid; so when he learned that the monks were planning to separate him from his guardian, Gyatso, he decided to run away.
Aang was caught in a horrible storm, and as he was about to drown, the Avatar Spirit inside him formed an air pocket, saving himself and Appa, but freezing them inside for the next one hundred years. Aang suffered terrible guilt over abandoning the world, but Katara convinced him that "it was meant to be", and he "gives people hope".
As the storm reached its height, becoming a typhoon, the wife of the old fisherman arrived at the cave, beckoning for the Avatar's help. She explained that her husband and Sokka should have returned from their fishing expedition and must have become caught out at sea. Aang and Katara flew out on Appa and came upon the fishing boat that was capsized. They were able to safely rescue Sokka and the old man and return them to the cave. Aang later told Katara that he was ready to move on from the past and look toward a brighter future.
In abandoned Earth Kingdom ruins , also along the western shores, Sokka had fallen ill due to his exposure to the recent storm. He was delusional and also exhibited flu-like symptoms.
Aang learned of an herbalist who lived at the top of a nearby mountain and made plans to travel there to find a cure. The situation worsened when Katara quickly grew sick herself, leaving Aang to travel alone to the herbalist. Aang raced through the mountainside, using his airbending abilities to speed his pace. He soon arrived at the herbalist's home, but not before passing an unnoticed pair of Fire Nation look-outs, who sounded the alarm after their station was ripped apart by the winds in Aang's path.
After a frustrating meeting with the herbalist, Aang learned that his friends must suck on the frozen bodies of hibernating wood frogs , which could be found on the bottoms of riverbeds.
However, he made little progress toward his destination before encountering the Yuyan Archers , who wasted little time in pinning his boots to the ground with arrows. Aang airbent to defend himself from the succeeding shots, freed his legs, and jumped off of the mountain into the thick forest below. Aang ran out of the woods, and unexpectedly ended up in a murky, partially-frozen river. He found the frozen frogs he had been looking for, and even while avoiding the Yuyans' arrows, managed to scoop several of the amphibians into his clothing.
However, several arrows caught the sleeve of his left and right arm and pinned it to an overturned tree before a net was shot over him. Aang was taken back to a fortress and placed in a cell guarded on the outside by four guards, while his arms and legs were chained and held in place. Admiral Zhao entered the cell and began to taunt Aang by bringing up the fact that all the other airbenders were slaughtered. Instead, Zhao promised to keep Aang alive, though "just barely". As Zhao departed, Aang angrily used his powerful breath to blow Zhao against the wall.
However, before leaving, Zhao decided to have the last word and stated that there was no possible way for Aang to escape, and no one would come to rescue him. The frogs, still stuffed in Aang's clothes, began to thaw and crawl away, despite the young airbender's protests. Just as several frogs, still partially-frozen, crawled under the door, the mysterious Blue Spirit, a broadsword-wielding vigilante, appeared and deftly defeated the guards in his way.
The Blue Spirit slashed through Aang's bonds, freeing him, and began to leave the room. Aang questioned the Blue Spirit's identity and intentions, but he did not answer, instead silently motioning for Aang to follow him. Aang concluded that this new figure meant to help him escape. Aang was threatened by the Blue Spirit to ward off Zhao.
During a difficult and violent attempt to escape, which included a standoff, seen at the left, a Yuyan Archer knocked out the Blue Spirit with a single arrow to his forehead. The Blue Spirit fell over instantly, unconscious. Aang immediately airbent up a large dust cloud and concealed himself.
He took off the Blue Spirit's mask to learn that his rescuer was Zuko. He turned to run and leave the prince behind, but hesitated. When the dust settled, Aang and Zuko had vanished without a trace. Later, Zuko regained consciousness to discover that morning had arrived, and he was with Aang in a wooded area. Aang spoke nostalgically of Kuzon , a Fire Nation boy he knew as one of his closest friends a century before.
He laughed at the thought of how much trouble he got into with his friend. After reflecting, he asked Zuko if, under different circumstances, they too could have been friends. Zuko paused before responding by launching a fire blast, which Aang easily avoided before leaping through the trees. Aang returned to the swampy river to retrieve a new set of frozen frogs. He finally returned to Katara and Sokka, placing a frozen frog in each of their mouths and repeating to them what the herbalist told him.
A delirious Sokka asked if Aang made any new friends, to which he sadly replied no, as he rested. As the group camped out by a lake, Aang wove a necklace for Katara from Sokka's fishing line to replace her stolen one. Upon seeing the Water Tribe girl donning the necklace, he saw her in a whole new light, developing a strong crush on her.
Loud noises drew the group to a spot in the wooded area where an elderly man was being attacked by a vicious platypus bear. Despite the dire circumstances, however, the man remained oddly calm.
After Appa managed to fend off the bear, the man told them he came from a nearby village where a fortuneteller, Aunt Wu , lived.
The group decided to travel to the village to have their fortunes told, much to Sokka's dismay. Aang used his airbending to stop the lava from the eruption of Mt. However, when Zaheer obtains Airbending and tries to re-establish his previous team by breaking his girlfriend, the Combustionbender P'Li, out of Jail, Zuko fails to prevent this from happening. Nevertheless, he is always present to give Avatar Korra some much-needed advice, especially regarding her responsibility to the world.
In one of the very few abdication cases in world history, Zuko gladly offers the kingdom to his competent daughter, Izumi , and becomes an informal international Ambassador of sorts. As of the present, he is still as hale and hearty as ever and will be for a long time. Appa and Aang pass away at the same time; an expected outcome gave their unbreakable spirit link.
Momo, the hilarious winged lemur, however, doesn't get a mention in the sequel, obviously suggesting that he also dies at some point, most likely of old age hopefully after a delicious meal consisting of peaches. Sokka's messenger bird, Hawky, is tasked with carrying Toph's letter to her parents in Gaoling: sadly, Katara does this and doesn't even tell him about it.
This is extra sad because the hawk seemingly remains in the Beifong Mansion after his job is complete. Ajay's natural habitat is his bedroom, which means that his time is spent staring at his TV screen in a hypnotic coma.
He tends to rant about the lack of quality programming in his life, but the amount of content he consumes would make even Galactus gassy. By Ajay Aravind Published Nov 30, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics Lists avatar the last airbender. Ajay Aravind Articles Published Ajay's natural habitat is his bedroom, which means that his time is spent staring at his TV screen in a hypnotic coma. The 10 Most Disliked Cartoon Characters.
Per the "Avatar" wiki , a supplemental text titled "The Lost Scrolls" gives some insight into the Tribes' history: after a period of unrest, a group of people split from the Northern Water Tribe in order to found the Southern Water Tribe, which is a collection of autonomous chiefdoms. There's no clear timeline of when the four nations came into existence in relation to one another, although evidence in "The Legend of Korra" and "The Rise of Kyoshi" suggests that the Air Nomads may have founded the Northern Air Temple prior to the founding of the other four nations.
In "The Rise of Kyoshi," it's noted that Laghima's contemporary, Shoken, was older than the four nations. Szeto was an Avatar that preceded Yangchen.
Szeto rose through the ranks of Fire Nation bureaucracy while working under the royal family. Szeto helped bring the Fire Nation to peace during a tumultuous time, leveraging Avatar's authority from within the Fire Nation government. Generally revered, she was considered to be a political master. Her reign as Avatar brought about peace, although her interest to placate human desire neglected spiritual concerns and many spirits turned dark and vengeful following her era. Kuruk was publicly known as a hedonistic Avatar who delighted in the pleasures of life but did little to tend to the duties of his station.
In reality, he was forced to contend with the vengeful spirits that Yangchen had neglected during her time. His first fight with a dark spirit left him with a spiritual wound that only worsened as he fought off more spirits attempting to break into the physical world.
She was taken by the spirit Koh, who stole her face. Kuruk later died at age This era was politically tumultuous, characterized by the rise of pirates as well as daofei — bandits who abided by strict honor and conduct codes — in certain regions of the Earth Kingdom. Kuruk's former companions, in particular Jianzhu and Kelsang, were forced to contend with matters in his absence.
Earth Kingdom sages experienced significant difficulty in finding the Avatar, even using methods drawn from the different nations. Eventually, Jianzhu and Kelsang settled in Yokoya, a town in the southern Earth Kingdom, establishing an estate to train the next Avatar. They believed that an Earth Kingdom boy named Yun was Kuruk's successor. Kyoshi was born to daofei parents who abandoned her in Yokoya as a child. Kyoshi grew up working at the Avatar's estate, but later learned that she was the Avatar and not Yun, the boy who Kelsang and Jianzhu had identified.
Kyoshi reunited with her parents' daofei company, swearing their oaths and training with them. She sought out revenge against Jianzhu, but Yun — returned from the Spirit World — killed him before Kyoshi could. Kyoshi spent some time clearing up corrupt daofei in the Earth Kingdom, but traveled to the Fire Nation to attend the Festival of Szeto and help Fire Lord Zoryu solidify his political hold on the nation. After helping to resolve a clan war over claim to the throne, Kyoshi and Rangi battled and killed Yun, who had fused with a spirit and was seeking revenge on those who had wronged him.
Kyoshi famously defeated Chin the Conqueror when he attempted to invade her home. She split her home peninsula from the Earth Kingdom mainland, creating Kyoshi Island and killing Chin in the process. Kyoshi later trained the first Kyoshi Warriors in her own image. She died at age Leadership in the Earth Kingdom was somewhat fractured in the absence of an Avatar.
The Earth King's leadership wasn't felt across the full continent, and a group of sages led by Jianzhu served as its most important political leaders. After Chamberlain Hui confronted Jianzhu with a number of other sages regarding his loss of the Avatar, Jianzhu killed them via poison.
After Zoryu framed the Saowons for conspiring with Yun, Kyoshi's childhood friend, to orchestrate an attack on the Fire Nation Palace during the Festival of Szeto, he solidified his legitimate rule and vowed to break the clans. Close friends with Fire Lord Sozin, Roku attempted to dissuade him from expanding the Fire Nation empire, later giving him an ultimatum when he learned that Sozin had occupied Earth Kingdom territory.
When the volcano on Roku's home island erupted 25 years later, he attempted to halt the disaster. Sozin helped him, but chose to leave Roku to die so that his plans could continue unhindered. Aang was born when Roku died. Raised at the Southern Air Temple and mentored by Monk Gyatso, he earned his tattoos and airbending-master status at a young age, partially through his invention of the air scooter.
The Southern Air Temple monks told Aang that he was the Avatar at age 12, and facing the possibility of being separated from Monk Gyatso, he fled the temple.
Caught in a storm, Aang went into the Avatar State and encased himself and Appa in an iceberg, where he remained for years. Sozin used a comet, which gave firebenders increased power, to commit mass genocide against the Air Nomads. Fire Lord Azulon ascended the throne after Sozin's death. Ozai, then a prince, married Ursa. They had two children: Zuko and Azula.
General Iroh led the siege of Ba Sing Se. He eventually broke through the outer wall, but his son, Lu Ten, was killed in the conflict. After Azulon's death, Ozai rose to the throne. Ursa was banished from the capital. During Zuko's childhood, he fought an Agni Kai duel with his father and lost. Ozai banished Zuko, sending him on a search for the Avatar. During the siege of the Northern Water Tribe capital city of Agna Qel'a, Zhou killed the moon spirit, causing Princess Yue to sacrifice herself to restore it.
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