#atla lore

[zukkaart]

Do you guys think Zuko made Aang’s final air-nomad outfit?

Like canonically out of them, only Katara and Zuko can sew. And I’d imagine Katara was pretty wrapped up after that final battle with not only healing Sokka’s leg, but knowing her- probably healing anyone else she could get her hands on. And she also would have no knowledge of what traditional air nomad formals would look like.

And yeah I guess Aang could have made it himself. But he was only 12 the last time he saw the monks. And I highly doubt they taught him much past how to repair is own clothing.

But who spent years studying the monks and air bending? Who became obsessed with their culture and traditions in an attempt to find the last one? Who searched all the air temples not once but twice, from top to bottom? Who canonically makes his own clothes (i.e. the blue spirit outfit)?

Zuko, always Zuko

I also like to think that the relic/amulet Aang wears in that same scene was also given to him by Zuko. Just bc I’m sure Zuko kept a lot of air nomad things on his ship, and I think either he or his uncle would have salvaged it- probably out of convenience. Zuko as a reminder of his “purpose”, and Iroh as a symbol of hope.

[iil-nonbinary-baby-bitch]

Wakes up in dead of night sweating and crazy eyed

Would lesbians in the the ATLA universe call themselves Kyoshins?!

[nyxelestia]

New headcanon:

The East India Western Kingdom Trading Company was founded by the Beifongs.

We know that the Beifongs are rich, but we don't actually know where that wealth comes from. It doesn't sound like they're nobility, so it's not from owning land (or at least, not just from owning land). We do know that documents from them are recognized and respected as far as Ba Sing Se despite their home being all the way down in Gaoling almost on the other side of the Earth Kingdom...specifically, over in the southwest of the Earth Kingdom.

Meaning Gyatso's sister was killed by Toph's ancestor.

[biconickyoshi]

Hello! I wanted to ask, in The Avatar and the Fire Prince AU, how does reincarnation (The Avatar Cycle) works? In Canon, the Avatar is a human soul (Wan) who after death reincarnates on Earth in a new body to live a new life with the Spirit of Peace (Raava) bounded to it. But how about in your AU? I'm asking because I want to know whether or not we're going to have a scene with Aang having an existential crisis over the fact that in his previous life he was Zuko's great-grandfather.

Hello anon! :) Yes, I do my best to ensure that my AU is as canon compliant as possible when it comes to lore (including all known lore from Legend of Korra, the comics, the TTRPG, and the Chronicles of the Avatar novels), so the Avatar Cycle does indeed work the exact same.

I honestly haven't given a ton of thought to Aang and Zuko's reaction of who Roku was (though it will definitely still be revealed at some point just like in the show). While I think they would both maybe find it a little weird of a coincidence at first, I don't think it would cause either of them to freak out or anything lol.

We've definitely seen weird coincidences/connections like this before with other Avatars - for example, Kuruk and Hei-Ran were past lovers (before he met Ummi), and then he was reincarnated as Kyoshi, who fell in love with Hei-Ran's daughter Rangi. Then we have Korra, who was taught waterbending by someone who is basically a grandmother figure to her (Katara), and who was also technically "her" wife in her past life. She was also taught airbending by someone who is a father/uncle figure to her (Tenzin), who was also technically "her" son in her past life.

In general, there seems to be an understanding amongst everyone in the world of AtLA that each Avatar is very much their own distinct person, each with different lives, memories, and personalities. Sometimes more spiritual people - like Toph for example - can see that the Avatar has the same spirit/soul, but again, even Toph knows Korra is her own person and not just Aang with none of his memories lol.

Of course, if Aang had a problem like Yangchen did in which he was constantly having flashbacks to memories from his previous lives, then I'd say that yeah lol, he'd be much more likely to have an existential crisis. But as far as we know, Aang does not have any "memories" of living as Roku or any other previous Avatar - he only views previous Avatars' life events from an outside perspective. And even if he did have the ability to "remember" living as Roku, at least he wouldn't be able to "remember" actively being a grandfather to Zuko, since Zuko and even Ursa were born decades after Roku's death. That would definitely be awkward if that wasn't the case lol.

All of this has actually got me thinking about the theory where an Avatar could possibly reincarnate as their own child/grandchild/relative, especially with mixed-ethnicity/nation families becoming more common in the time of Korra. Like, say an Earth Avatar dies right as their child with someone of Fire Nation descent (or their grandchild, or sibling, or cousin, etc.) is born. As long as they have the right DNA, a relative of the Avatar could theoretically be the next Avatar in this scenario. The closest thing I could compare this to is like a Steven Universe situation (where he kind of both is and isn't his own mom - it's hard to explain if you haven't seen that show lmao).

Anywayyyy sorry for the long ass response anon lol. I just love talking about AtLA lore! :)

[mfelewzi]

From r/AvatarMemes, by u/HAZMAT_Eater: yo

The Legend of Koran, Book 3: Fitna

Man, I love this parodistical AU! More than original show.

I would have loved some references to the other two Great Traditional Religions of Asia, Islam and Christianity (I intend the Syriac Christianity that was in China and India before Jesuit Missions, especially in the last country with One of the secular Malabarian Community), and not Just those. The Earthlings of South Earth Kingdom (Omashu folks, Sand Folks of Si Wong Desert) could have a more persian and arabic references, and the same could be for the Air Temples, making them more differents Just like Water Tribes.

Maybe Eastern Air Temple Monks could be more like these:

While Southern Air Temple Monks a fusion between this

And this

Chinese representation of Tang Dinasty about a nestorian/eastern christian chinese/turk monk.

And a theme for The Rift and other comics could be the differences among different Monastic traditions of Air Nomads, and a difference between Monks and normal Air Nomads, more similar to turks and mongolians.

That's cause a thing that I loved of Ehasz's ideas was the Return of Air Nomads and Air Bending. And a return without "spirit things" would be more interesting than what Bryke had done.

And speaking about "Spirit things": It would be more Better for Lore and Avatar's Origins some changes about Spirits, especially Raava and Vaatu (maybe a third subject with them: Brahman as one of the Three Great Ones Who would had seen the World's Story and Formation).

A thing like this.

And yes, I created this Retcon and AU because I had seen a meme!

[therealbluespirit]

AFTER LONG FREAKIN LAST

I am ecstatic to announce...

CHAPTER 17

In which Zuko fades in and out of consciousness, the crew faces a tough inquisition, and bigger and badder plots begin to germinate

[sharlmbracta]

me on this take:

So we know firebending gets weaker at night and stronger during the day, that's been established. But are the phases of the moon also a factor into how powerful firebending can still be at night?

Think about it, the light of the moon is a reflection of the sun. So if there's a full moon, firebending should be more powerful than during a new moon. It wouldn't be as powerful as during the day obviously, but it would be significantly stronger than when there's no moon visible.

That's probably why the fire nation also depends on the moon like Iroh says. Firebenders would have given themselves quite the disadvantage if they had succeeded in destroying the moon. And if the other nations were to figure it out, they could have planned an invasion at night. (Of course the invasion during an eclipse was also a good idea, but the eclipse only lasts a few minutes, while nighttime lasts several hours.)

[junotter]

Part 1 of my modern avatar au, the fire nation

[demaparbat-hp]

Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.

[hinamie]

off on an adventure ! this au turns 1 week old today

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

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[elderwisp]

[biconickyoshi]

Opinion on Bloodbending for medical purposes?

I've honestly never thought about this anon, but I think that is a very cool way that it could be used! I'm assuming it would be something like helping with blood flow?

It makes me think of how the healer Atuat from the Kyoshi novels used her waterbending to slow down the process of death by lowering the body's temperature. Waterbending in general is so cool because these techniques could both be used to totally just kill someone, but they could also be used to save lives.

[mfelewzi]

Well, in the original lore, Air Nomads were nomadic tribes that followed the Air Monks, like Tibetans and Mongolians, and the islands of the Air Temples are a sea version of Tibet, so there weren't economic interests to colonize them.

And It wasn't a headcanon, sadly.

Ah, here an illustration of Tibetan Warriors, maybe the other original Air Nomads were more like these, with a dark past about a Terrible and Bloody Great Khan.

Maybe there were some resources like coal for industries and machines, or oil and some special metals, but they didn't know (as happened with my country when It colonised Libya, a sad Page of our history, especially during fascist regime), and more important Bryke (especially Di Martino) retconned the old lore, so frankly It doesn't matter.

Why didn't Fire Nation ever colonize the Air Nomad territories after wiping out the population?

As far as I remember, we didn't really see any Air Nomad territories other than the Air Temples. And I would assume that the reason the Fire Nation didn't colonize them is because it was just impractical. They are located high in the mountains, and the easiest way to get there is by flying, and the Air Nomads probably got there on Sky Bisons. So, the Fire Nation probably didn't colonize them because they didn't want to live there and they didn't find it useful.

[allgremlinart]

whatever. collection of Ursa for whom it may concern (part 1)

[kibutsulove]

I genuinely love this image so much it looks like she’s explaining what lmfao means in text to him

[candle-scm]

1. Sokka knows all the best Southern Water Tribe hair oil mixtures and therefore Izumi's hair is the best in the palace (yes even beating Zuko) and 2. Sokka doing Izumi's hair became their gossip hour and that's the way it's been since she was a toddler