Talk:Geography of the World of Avatar/@comment-812030-20110721185109

I always figured that the Avatar world was Earth just set back in a 'lost age' sort of like the Hyborian Age from the Conan the Barbarian universe.

I've always set it sometime before the last Ice Age, with Sozin's Comet impacting the earth the cause of the end of the Avatar World. As for justification of the hybrid animals I figured they just evolved into their current forms during the Ice Age. As for the loss of element manipulation either something at the end of this series causes it, or it becomes a forgotten art, lost to the ages.