Sacred crystal orb



The Sacred Crystal Orb is an important relic to the Gan Jin tribe. This orb began the great feud between the Gan Jin and the Zhang, a less civilized tribe than the Gan Jin.

The Gan Jin believe that a hundred years ago, one of their best warriors, Jin Wei, would carry out a yearly ritual where that warrior would symbolize the sun setting from east to west by carrying a sacred crystal orb from the the East post of their tribe to the West post. Apparently the Gan Jin believe that during the process of this ritual when the warrior was approaching the West post of their tribe, A man from the Zhang tribe, Wei Jin, knocked out the Gan Jin warrior who was carrying out the ritual and stole the sacred orb. This legend started the tribal feud between the Zhang and the Gan Jin. However, this may not be necessarily true. The Zhang tribe believe that Wei Jin was traveling the country when he stumbled upon a fallen man from the Gan Jin tribe, who was Jin Wei. Wei Jin states that he tried to tender the man's wounds, but Jin Wei insisted that he would rather have him finish the ritual and carry the orb to the West post instead of caring for him. As believed, Wei Jin man did what he said, but as he approached the West post, he was arrested by other Gan Jin warriors for stealing the orb and sentenced to 20 years in prison without being thanked for his selfless deeds as the Zhang stated.

As different as these two stories might be, the orb's whereabouts have been unknown ever since. Curiously, the sacred orb contains the Air Nomads' symbol.