Heir to the Fire Lord



The title Heir to the Fire Lord, more commonly referred to as the Crown Prince or Crown Princess, is the title normally given to the eldest eligible child of the Fire Lord and used to refer to the person who is next in line to the Fire Nation throne.

The Heir to the Fire Lord, male or female can take an active role in warfare.

History
The first Heir to the Fire Lord seen is Sozin. His days as Crown Prince were spent with his best friend at the time, Roku. He succeeded his father as Fire Lord during the years in which Roku trained to become a fully-realized Avatar.

Sozin eventually married and had a son, Azulon, who was his sole child. Azulon became the Crown Prince as a result, and served his father as an illustrious High General during the War. Azulon ascended the throne upon Sozin's eventual death at the age of 102.

Azulon eventually married a noblewoman named Ilah and had two sons, Iroh and Ozai. Iroh became the Crown Prince as the immediate heir to the throne. Both men eventually married, with Iroh having his sole son Lu Ten, and Ozai having his elder child Zuko. Since his father was expected to succeed Azulon as Fire Lord, Lu Ten was the second legitimate heir to the throne. Crown Prince Iroh, like his father, became a prominent High General of the Fire Nation Army and claimed many victories for his nation, and almost conquered the Earth Kingdom capital of Ba Sing Se. However, this invasion ended in failure when Prince Lu Ten was killed in battle, breaking Iroh's will to fight.

Fire Lord Azulon mysteriously died after word of Iroh's defeat reached the Fire Nation, and was succeeded by Ozai in what ultimately proved to be a conspiracy to steal the throne from Iroh. Zuko became the immediate heir to the throne, but was banished after speaking out of turn at a war meeting.



Azula became the sole Crown Princess of the Fire Nation, and the heir apparent to the throne. In the final battles of the war, Azula was to succeed Ozai as Fire Lord while he declared himself the new Phoenix King of the Earth. However, she was ultimately defeated by Zuko and his ally Katara during the arrival of Sozin's Comet in a vicious Agni Kai for the throne. She subsequently lost her sanity due to the betrayal of her closest friends Mai and Ty Lee when they defended Zuko from her in an earlier engagement. She was incarcerated in a mental health facility and supposedly stripped of the title of Crown Princess.

Zuko became Fire Lord after this, declaring the war over. As Zuko currently has no children, the title of Heir is vacant.

Known Heirs

 * Prince Sozin
 * Prince Azulon
 * Prince Iroh
 * Prince Zuko
 * Princess Azula