Mining village

The Mining Village is a medium-sized village located in the Earth Kingdom. It appears in Imprisoned and is not to be confused with the Abandoned Mining Town seen in The Chase.

Notable Figures

 * Haru
 * Tyro
 * Haru's mother

History
The Mining Village is located on the Northwestern coast of the Earth Kingdom, and its inhabitants make a living by mining coal in several nearby mines. It has been under Fire Nation control for quite some time and now the villagers are forced to mine coal to fuel the war effort going on nationwide. The people are forced to pay heavy taxes and live in constant fear of their occupiers. Earthbending is strictly forbidden by the authorities and any citizen found to be an Earthbender is immediately arrested and sent to a prison rig located several miles off the coast. The villagers have lost their will to resist the people who have stripped them of their freedom.

Haru, a sixteen-year old man and a devoted ally to the Avatar, hails from this village and lives alonw with his mother. His father Tyro is just one of many Earthbenders who were captured by the Fire Nation.

Fire Nation Prison Rig
The Fire Nation Prison Rig is a towering facility that serves as both a dockyard for the Fire Nation Navy and as a prison for captured Earthbenders. It is capable of holding hundreds of prisoners and is run by a cruel Warden who delights in mocking his prisoners, who he sarcastically calls his "guests". The facility processes coal for warships and is made entirely of metal, which almost no Earthbender can bend. This is the perfect environment to deprive the Earthbenders of their strength and desire to resist their captors.

Recent History
Avatar Aang and his friends visited this village shortly after Aang's revival from the iceberg and met Haru during their stay here. The group, especially Katara, quickly befriended Haru and felt moved to rescue him from captivity when he too was captured by the Fire Nation for Earthbending. Katara tricked the Fire Nation into arresting her for Earthbending and was reunited with Haru on the rig. Haru too had finally found his long-lost father. Feeling a desire to help the prisoners, Katara urged the Earthbenders to fight back, but their fighting spirits had been broken. Fortunately, Katara found that the coal being processed on the rig was bendable, so Haru, Tyro, and the prisoners were finally able to defeat their captors and flee back to the village on stolen warships. The liberated Earthbenders swore to drive the Fire Nation out of their villages and thanked Katara for helping them find their strength.

Although the village has not been seen since its first appearance it was confirmed by Tyro and Haru in The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion that they have indeed succeeded in liberating their village and have fought a successful campaign against the invaders ever since.