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ALL POSTSNorthern Water Tribe's New Royalty/Chief
<p>This is a question that I have been wondering about for quite a while: How did the Northern Water Tribe, while Aang instead of Korra was still the Avatar, have a chief and his royal family after Chief Arnook died later on (unseen)?
</p><p>We know that Princess Yue, Chief Arnook's only child, "died" and became the next Moon Spirit, and we never saw his wife, so it's assumed his wife had already died sometime during Yue's childhood. Also, whether or not Yue's fiance, Hahn, survived both the fall from Zhao and the arctic water's temperature if he hadn't died from the fall, and we just didn't see him again in the show since he was a minor character, he no longer was going to become first the prince and then the chief due to not being engaged to Yue anymore because of her "death".
</p><p>So what happened to the Northern Water Tribe in terms of rulers? Did Chief Arnook marry another woman and have another child, so that this kid would eventually grow up to become the chief or royal wife? Or did Chief Arnook appoint a high-status male waterbender or warrior as the next chief and start teaching him how to be a good ruler of his tribe before he died? Could Yue, as the Moon Spirit, have told her "former" father who the correct next leader was, and because of being a spirit, he trusted her "nomination"?
</p><p>How could the Northern Water Tribe decide who the next chief and royal family was going to be with only Arnook, and no betrothed daughter having Hahn eventually become the next chief or no wife to have another child?
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<p>Basically, they follow the rule most Royal families follow.
</p><p>No direct hier to the throne, give it to the family member next in line.Â
</p><p>So if Arnook doesn't have another child, then if his siblings (if he has any) outlive him they get the crown, if they dont thier kids get it. If He has no siblings, we gotta look at cousins or Aunts/Uncles and go down the line of blood relatives till we find a suitable candidate.Â
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<p>That's true, but what if Arnook has absolutely no living relatives that will outlive him in order to take the crown after his death, including cousins, and only really old ones instead, such as merely his parents or aunts and uncles without kids?
</p><p>That's more of what I meant; I was thinking of him as having no young enough relatives to be around after his death when I posted this. Would the Tribe ask the spirits, particularly the Ocean and Moon spirits, for knowledge or wisdom of who is the correct next chief?
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<p>the NWT isn't that big, there's no way he doesn't have a couple of distant cousins there. Unless Arnook's family had only 1 child for 5 generations... but that's incredibly unlikely. If that did happen, I doubt there's a protocol set up for it- whatever decision made would be the result of political issues at the moment, not custom...
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<p>First of all, there's no evidence that Arnook didn't have any other children. Just because we didn't see a wife or younger children doesn't mean that they weren't there. Besides, the sexist nature of the Northern Water Tribe would mean that even if Yue had survived, she would not have succeeded her father as chief...that role would go to her younger brother or some other male relative (most likely an uncle or a cousin).
</p><p>It is interesting to note that the only Northern chief we saw in between Arnook and Unalaq was a man presumed to be Tonraq and Unalaq's father. We saw a glimpse of him sitting on his throne as he was banishing Tonraq who was at least in his early 20s at the time. This chief appeared to be a middle-aged man, clearly old enough to be Tonraq and Unalaq's father. And bearing in mind that this took place approximately 50 years after the events of ATLA, it is reasonable to assume that this chief was the son of Arnook and younger brother of Yue. He would have been a very young child at the time of the Fire Nation invasion of the Northern Water Tribe, if he was yet born at all.
</p><p>Perhaps the reason we didn't see him during these events is because Arnook wisely sent is wife and (possibly unborn) heir to the throne away to a safer place when he knew the invasion was coming. This would also make Yue Korra's great-aunt. Of course, this is all assuming that Arnook was succeeded by his son, which is speculation, but it's still fun to imagine.
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