Talk:Avatar Temple/@comment-3016726-20100902013557

I think that its northern water tribe 1. the southern water tribe is (or was when the temple is shown) teetering on the edge of extinction, they don't have the resources to maintain a central government, let alone an avatar temple 2. if the Fire nation wiped out all the southern waterbenders, I think its plausible that they might also destroy all there temples. (on that same note, don't sages have to be benders? Who would be maintaining the temple?) 3. Avatar Kuruk was born in the north, so it is very possible that it has bin over a 1,000 years since an avatar was born in the south (especially if the Water Tribe avatar before Kuruk was also born in the north), so its not likely that maintaining an avatar shrine was ever considered to be a priority by the southern Water Tribe (however, I do realize that the opposite could also be true). 4. Igloos have only ever bin seen in the southern water tribe, not the north.