Canyon guide

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

The canyon guide acted as a guide to people who required traveling across the massive canyon known as the Great Divide, located in the Earth Kingdom. He had extensive knowledge of the history, creatures, geography, and climate of the canyon and its surroundings. The canyon guide was a pleasant man who seemed to enjoy his job.

The canyon guide did not do well 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 had to lead two feuding tribes and the Avatar through the canyon. The canyon guide arrived, and both tribes began to argue about who would take the journey first. The Zhangs claimed that they should be first as they had sick people, while the Gan Jins retorted that they should because they had old people. Aang reached a compromise by suggesting that Appa carry their sick and elderly across while the two tribes 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 couldn't follow them, a canyon crawler attacked. Aang and his friends fended it off, but the canyon guide's arms were broken, which meant he couldn't Earthbend, and there was no going back.

He was later seen, along with Aang, looking over the campsites of both tribes, commenting as they were alone due to their neutral position. Aang said that he wanted to help those people, 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 argued some more, 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 revealed the food from both tribes and 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.

His ultimate fate after the War is unknown.