Dark spirit incidents

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- Angry spirits are already attacking ships in your waters. I only hope we are not too late to change course.

The Dark spirit incidents were a series of attacks of dark spirits on members of the Southern Water Tribe as well as sailors in the South Sea. The spirits were upset by the lack of spirituality and the decline of traditions in the Southern Tribe.

Prelude
In course of the Hundred Year War and the Southern Water Tribe Raids, the Southern Water Tribe narrowly avoided extinction. In their struggle for survival, the tribesmen abonded many old traditions that were established to appease the spirits of the South Pole. As result, the South Pole became spiritually and physically unstable during the war, and the Southern Lights, sign of satisfied spirits, disappeared. in their wake came the Ever-Storm. After the conflict's end, the Northern Water Tribe helped to rebuild the Southern Water Tribe. However, despite the Southern Tribe's increasing prosperity and technological progress, its population remained largely secular. In the process, the spiritual instability of the South Pole increased. Eventually, those spirits who were completely out of balance became dark, and began attacking the humans at the South Pole.

Attacks and solution
Since late 170 ASC, the number and aggressiveness of dark spirits at the South Pole increased dramatically, leading to numerous attacks on ships in the South Sea. Angry spirits kidnapped or even killed numerous sailors during these attacks, and even sank some ships. This alarmed Chief Unalaq, leader of both Nothern and Southern Water Tribe.

He urged the Southern Tribesmen to return to their old ways during the Glacial Spirits Festival, but was ignored. Only when a single dark spirit attacked the capital of the Southern Water Tribe, he could convince Avatar Korra to intervene. Unalaq assembled a small expedition to the center of the Ever-Storm against the protests of Korra's father, Tonraq, and set out to appease the spirits. After passing through the dangerous storm, Unalaq told Korra that she had to open the spirit portal at the frozen spirit forest. In doing so, Korra was able to disperse the Ever-Storm and restored the Southern Light as well as the spiritual balance of the South Pole.