Canyon guide

"earth"

- They're coming back for me! They've had a taste, and they are coming back for me!

The canyon guide was a tour guide to people traveling through the massive Great Divide, located in the Earth Kingdom. He had extensive knowledge of its history, creatures, geography, and climate. The canyon guide was a pleasant man who seemed to enjoy his job. However, he promptly quit after a terrible experience with the canyon crawlers.

The canyon guide was not adept in dealing with intense conflict between people, and showed excess paranoia during the attacks of the canyon crawlers, though it would appear he was able to handle natural, earth-based crises with little difficulty. In calmer moments, the canyon guide was both wise and perceptive, and his keen observations were able to help others understand the nature of their problems and eventually how to solve them.

History


On one trip, the guide was leading two feuding tribes along with the Avatar and his friends through the Great Divide. As the canyon guide arrived, both tribes began to argue about who would travel the canyon first. The Zhangs claimed that they should be first as they had sick people, while the Gan Jins retorted that they should go because many of their tribe's members were elderly. Aang reached a compromise by suggesting that Appa carry both tribes' sick and elderly across while the others traveled together across the canyon. The guide warned them not to take any food into the canyon, as it would attract dangerous predators. After he had broken a rock shelf so that potential Fire Nation soldiers could not follow them, a canyon crawler attacked. Aang and his friends defeated it, but the canyon guide's arms were rendered broken, which meant he could not earthbend, and there was no going back.

He was later seen, along with Aang, overlooking the campsites of both tribes, commenting as they were alone due to their neutral position. Aang said that he wanted to help the tribes settle their dispute, but getting out of the canyon was more important. The guide revealed his wise nature as he replied, "I'm not so sure the two problems are unrelated."

They reached the end of the canyon, where the tribes continued to argue, the two apparent leaders engaging in a duel to end the feud once and for all. Aang became angry and used airbending to stop the fight, but in the process, he had revealed the food both tribes snuck into the canyon, which attracted many canyon crawlers. By working together and throwing bags over the crawlers' snouts while the crawlers were distracted with food, everyone was able to ride them up the wall and out of the canyon. After they got out, the canyon guide quit his job as a guide and left with the two tribes, to fulfill his dream of traveling to the Earth Kingdom capital.

Trivia

 * The canyon guide complained that he could not bend without his hands, but earthbenders have always been able to bend with their feet.