I saw this meme on Reddit and it made me wonder about how the discovery of a new Avatar is publicly announced. Here’s my idea of the “formula” they might use for it:

Exemplar (Template):

“Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus Avatarem: Eminentissimum (masculus)/Eminentissimam (femina) ac Reverendissimum (masculus)/Reverendissimam (femina) Dominum (masculus)/Dominam (femina) Avatarem ex [Natio originis Avataris in ablativo singulari], [Nomen Avataris non flexum]!”

Translated:

“I announce to you a great joy; We have the Avatar: The Most Eminent and The Most Reverend Lord (male)/Lady (female) Avatar from [Avatar’s nation of origin in ablative singular], [Avatar’s name uninflected]!”

Exemplum Avataris masculini (Example for a male Avatar):

"Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus Avatarem: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum Avatarem ex Templo Aeris Australis, Aang!"

Translated:

"I announce to you a great joy; we have the Avatar: The Most Eminent and the Most Reverend Lord Avatar from the Southern Air Temple, Aang!"

Exemplum Avataris feminei (Example for a female Avatar):

"Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus Avatarem: Eminentissimam ac Reverendissimam Dominam Avatarem ex Tribu Aquae Australis, Korra!"

Translated:

“I announce to you a great joy; we have the Avatar: The Most Eminent and the Most Reverend Lady Avatar from the Southern Water Tribe, Korra!”

I know that this is definitely out of place in the Avatarverse for obvious reasons (the formula is in Latin (I actually did a lot of research to ensure that the grammar, inflections, and declensions were correct because Latin grammar is incredibly complicated), which is a language that doesn’t exist in the Avatarverse; the Avatarverse is primarily Asian-inspired; and it is obviously based on the announcement made when a new Pope is elected) but I still speculate they might still have some way of publicly announcing the discovery of a new Avatar (especially given how momentous of an occasion the public announcement that the new Avatar has been discovered would be for the entire world). Though, instead of Latin, they might do it in some “ancient sacred language” they only use for ceremonial purposes.

As a bonus, here are the names of the nations in Latin in both nominative singular and ablative singular (the latter of which will be how they might be “plugged in” to the “template”):

Water Tribes (because there are three Water Tribes, they would likely say which Water Tribe a new Avatar is from in the announcement):

Northern Water Tribe: Tribus Aquae Septentrionalis (nominative singular)/Tribu Aquae Septentrionalis (ablative singular)

Southern Water Tribe: Tribus Aquae Australis (nominative singular)/Tribu Aquae Australis (ablative singular)

Foggy Swamp Tribe: Tribus Paludis Nebulosae (nominative singular)/Tribu Paludis Nebulosae (ablative singular)

Earth Kingdom: Terra Regnum (nominative singular)/Terra Regno (ablative singular)

Fire Nation: Natio Ignis (nominative singular)/Natione Ignis (ablative singular)

Air Nomads/Air Nation (because both the Air Nomads and its successor, the Air Nation, operate as a monastic order (though the Air Nation is less monastic) rather than an actual territorial nation-state, they would likely say which Air Temple a new Avatar is from in the announcement):

Southern Air Temple: Templum Aeris Australis (nominative singular)/Templo Aeris Australis (ablative singular)

Northern Air Temple (destroyed): Templum Aeris Septentrionalis (nominative singular)/Templo Aeris Septentrionalis (ablative singular)

Eastern Air Temple: Templum Aeris Orientalis (nominative singular)/Templo Aeris Orientalis (ablative singular)

Western Air Temple: Templum Aeris Occidentalis (nominative singular)/Templo Aeris Occidentalis (ablative singular)

Air Temple Island: Insula Templi Aeris (nominative and ablative singular of "insula" are the same)

United Republic of Nations (Though I am unsure how the creation of the United Republic of Nations might affect the Avatar cycle, it might still be possible for an Avatar to be born there, so i will include it): Respublica Unita Nationum (nominative singular)/Republica Nationum Unitarum (ablative singular)

So what do y’all think of my hypothetical "formula" for how a new Avatar's discovery is publicly announced? Do you think it would work? If not, can you think of something better? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

PS: Admins of this wiki, if you see two comments with similar wording to this post on the meme that I linked, please don’t accuse me of plagiarism because the account who wrote those comments is actually mine and I am the one who wrote those comments. I first shared this idea on those two aforementioned comments and I am just re-sharing it here.

So its a fanmade bending, basically controlling molecules, but not create them. This would probably be almost impossible to master as anyone who masters it can basically be a psuedo-avatar. It might also allow bending of other materials, which is a bit op, might I add

Now maybe some or few metalbenders can do it, but, is it most? If most of them cannot, it would interesting because then firebending would slightly be more valuable in the case of metal manufacturing, though of course, metalbending is still on top. Though they can bend metal, it would be hard to make metal for the purpose of industry if you cannot or struggle to refine it. Yeah you can maybe use it to fight and you can still move raw metal, but I'm talking about using it for industry, you need to extract it. If this is the case, I think there would be many firebenders and metalbenders in metal factories, instead of just solely relying in metalbenders.

It's been a bit boring on here with so little to talk about. So, why not have some fun and get into "What If" territory? I think that would keep us occupied until some real news hits.

I think a massive change to Avatar would be adding in new Primary Elements. I've looked into what Elements could work. The only pair (because it needs to be a pair for the sake of Balance) that could work would be the Elements of Light and Shadow.

Before I talk about them; I'll mention that other Elements like Metal and Wood (Chinese Elemental Cycle) wouldn't really work as Primary Bending forms in Avatar. These Metalbenders wouldn't have their weakness to Pure Metal (Platinum) thus they'd be too overpowered. All Metal weapons, vehicles, and infrastructure would be easy pickings for these Metalbenders. With not much (if any) for a real counter measure. The Fire Nation couldn't have built their forged weapons for the 100 Years War. Metal would dominate.

On the other hand; Woodbenders would be the weakest of all Elements. Wood just isn't durable enough to fight (or defend) with. They'd need to mobilize entire trees just to be competitive. I can't imagine an army of trees being a good idea against the Fire Nation. And if Hama could cut through stone with ease, trees would be no problem for Waterbenders.

But, what about Light and Shadow? Both would be much more Balanced. They'd have their strengths but a fair bit of weaknesses too. They don't dominate any Element nor would they be dominated. They are opposites to each other so they fit right in with the Four Elements. Both Elements are plentiful enough that there wouldn't be any major lack of presence. Light would likely be a more 'thinking man's' Element. Using Reflective or Refractive materials found on the battlefield (or in Cities) to their advantage. Hitting their targets around their defenses or hitting blind spots. Being slightly less direct then most Benders.

Shadowbenders would be more subtle and stealthy. Mixing the evasiveness of Airbenders and the patience of Earthbenders. Finding the right angle and moment to strike. They'd understand where Shadows may lay and how to best take advantage of them.

With that all said; it'd be difficult to introduce them so late in the History of Avatar. So, "What If" they were always there? Apart of an Alternate History? So many things would have changed. But, that's the fun part. In this scenario the fans get to choose what changes get made. New Avatars, new Villains, new Nations etc.

What do you think? Which Element would you like to use? What would you want to see? This is Just For Fun so no need to worry too much about Canon. Enjoy!

One of my favorite scenes in all of Avatar - both series - is the part in the Book 3 episode "The Firebending Masters" where Aang and Zuko are surrounded by a cyclone of rainbow-colored flames by the dragons Ran and Shaw.

In the first book of the Smoke and Shadow trilogy of graphic novels, we see Zuko create a similar vortex of rainbow-colored flames with hints of green and purple among the typical orange and yellow.

Personally, I think that Zuko's use of dragon fire is evidence of not only his growth, but his own spiritual development and enlightenment. At this point in the timeline, he has found out what happened to his mother, he has re-established his connection to her, and even found a new family in his half-sister Kiyi and his stepfather Noren.

This is Zuko at the happiest and most at peace we've seen thus far. He is finally at peace with himself and his family, or at least as close to as anyone in his understandably messed up situation could be.

And I think that this is key to Dragon Fire. While Azula's blue flames are all about efficiency, single-minded precision, and pure power, Dragon Fire can be inferred to be usable by someone who has learned to embrace Firebending's true nature: energy, life, power, mindfulness, and creativity.

I imagine that it is only accessible to someone like Zuko who has put his past and his grief behind him and is as close to being like a dragon as any human can be.

As for why Iroh seemingly can't use it? Iroh has stated that he has never gotten over the death of his son and that he'll never be over it. Iroh is burdened by his past traumas on a level that Zuko has never dealt with and in ways that hopefully Zuko never has to experience. We do know through Gyatso in The Reckoning of Roku that grief can serve as an emotional block for airbending, and I think it's reasonable to assume that could do the same for any element, as we saw with Zuko's inability to generate lightning in the Book 2 episode "Bitter Work."

I really hope we can see Zuko bust out the Dragon Fire in next year's animated movie.

Well, that's all I have to say for now.

As you all know, the upcoming Avatar Series' description has left us all with many questions.

Obviously questions that will be answered soon, but we enjoy making some theories anyway. Possible spoilers ahead! Please read at your own discretion if you're avoiding spoilers.

Anyways, let's get started.

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The new Avatar series is "set in a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm", and it marks the Avatar as "humanity's destroyer".

Now we don't exactly KNOW what happened to make the world hate the Avatar, but I did a little digging and rewatched all of TLoK, looking for a connection-and possible foreshadowing, and came to a possible reason:

In Book 2, as tensions of Civil War in the Water Tribes increased, Unalaq explains to Korra about the chaos that could unfold.

My theory?

Even though this crisis was solved, it's still one of the closest things that could have caused the destruction of the Four Nations in the next series.

Perhaps the cataclysmic event in the next series may have been a major conflict that happened in the later years of the era of Korra, like a war between Spirits and Humans. After Korra left the Spirit Portals open after Harmonic Convergence, the planet's energy shifted greatly, so this could be a possible factor in making things worse and more catastrophic.

As we see in Turf Wars Part One, the spirits initially were hesitant to get involved with human conflicts, but now that there was a portal in Republic City, they have no choice but to defend themselves from humans. This could also be a factor to the theoretical major conflict, especially since the dragon eel spirit warns Korra that she will be held responsible for protecting the portal (hence why they could possibly hate the Avatar now).

With all of these in place, it is safe to say that it is possible that the destruction of the Four Nations could have been because of a war between Man and Spirit, and the Avatar is to blame somehow. Unalaq's fears of a large conflict involving humans and spirits may have resulted in the post-apocalyptic world that the new Avatar must survive in.

Of course, this is just a theory of mine. Share your feedback and let me know what you guys think! And please do share any other theories you might have!

I don't know if anyone thought about this theory before but I thought a very reasonable theory for why the new Avatar will have a "twin" this time.

As said, Korra is seen as responsible from a cataclysm. I don't know what that would be but I think it would be linked to Vaatu someway. As you know TLOK season 2 has a very weird ending, Korra defeating UnaVaatu with spiritbending. This bending form is very vague first of all. So, we don't actually now what happened to UnaVaatu (probably Unalaq died in the process but Vaatu is literally impossible to kill). Also, Korra, with Jinora's help, was able to find Raava inside Vaatu (light in the dark theme). Raava itself revealed that Vaatu (darkness) will regrow in time as well.

SO, the theory: I think after TLOK finale, with time Vaatu grow inside Raava (like Raava being inside Vaatu all along in the final battle of season 2). This made Korra increasingly unstable, her entering into periods of uncontrollable "Dark Avatar states", which caused havoc and probably the mentioned cataclysm itself somehow. Either during this event or after it, Korra died (or killed herself to prevent further Dark Avatar states). After her death, Raava and Vaatu separated/reincarnated in the bodies of the twins. So most likely the protagonist (the Raava twin) will clash with her twin (the Vaatu twin) throughout the story.

What do you all think?

I have a theory of what happened after the cataclysm, the reason why the Avatar figure is hated by the people of this post-apocalyptic world and seen as the one who caused the cataclysm, is because someone or a group of people distorted history so that the Avatar was seen as the one responsible for the cataclysm happening in the first place.

Reasons, because in this world where the four nations are no longer there, here we must find ways to stand out, so people with their own ambitions to manage this new world know that the Avatar can be a great obstacle and people may resort to their figure more because the Avatar would be needed to learn to survive and certain people would not like that.

So, in the time that passed from Korra's death until the arrival of the new Avatar of Earth, the image of the Avatar was tarnished due to the growing strength in the belief that the Avatar was responsible for the post-apocalyptic world

Whenever these two things have been mentioned: redemption arc and Azula, and we always put them together, there have always been divided opinions. Many like the idea because after everything that has happened and how her childhood was not the best, she deserves a redemption arc, others recognize that Azula does not deserve it because Azula did things that showed that she was a villain.

I think the biggest turning point for everyone in the fandom regarding this topic is the role that Azula will assume if she gets her redemption arc because many of us want scenarios for her to get it and others do not prefer that option because we do not see her assuming said scenarios.

However, there are other ways for Azula to have the redemption arc in a way that could be satisfying:

The Cobra Kai series which belongs to the Karate Kid saga, shows a character who has a similar character arc to Azula, John Kreese, at the end after finally seeing all the damage he has done, he gets redemption after sacrificing himself to protect Johnny Lawrence's family.

That could be the ideal redemption arc for Azula if she decides to redeem

herself, because Azula is not someone who gives up on her ideals, she is not someone who decides to change to support the world of peace that the Four Nations live in and she is not someone who chooses to leave the past in the past.

As the Avatar canon develops further, we see how as time goes by Azula becomes more and more the last remnant of the War, because the world is already accepting peace and Azula continues to fight but as she continues with her ideas, it is seen that Azula has entered a repetitive cycle from which she cannot escape and while that happens the world continues to advance, and Azula has less and less place in it.

If she decides to appear once more, it could be for a last attempt to take over the throne, but in an unexpected twist it ends in a twist that no one had foreseen, where Azula sees where her actions have led, coming to understand that it was not her story to have to participate, it was not her problem to believe that only she can be "the chosen one" and by wanting to force things to get what she wanted she only caused harm.

When she finally understands that, she then decides to close that cycle in which she lived with Zuko, Mai, and Ty Lee, along with several other people in which she was deeply involved, by recognizing her mistakes and in the face of greater danger she decides to sacrifice herself for a cause that can help the world.

I'm not one of those who supports the idea of ​​Azula having a redemption arc, but if she were given one of this type, I would accept that closure for Azula.

I want to believe that the main villain for this new Avatar will be Father Glowworn...

Based on data gathered from both leaks and from the Avatar canon that the Avatar Wiki has, Father Glowworn is an evil spirit, who opened rifts between the physical and spiritual worlds.

Avatar Kuruk during his time as Avatar, investigated how dark spirits crossed over into the physical world and came across Father Glowworn, and the two fought many times, reaching a point where Kuruk weakened the spirit.

At some point (one that we need to find out how it happened) Jianzhu, Kuruk's friend found Father Glowworn and turned to him to remove the doubt of who the true Avatar was, Yun or Kyoshi, when Father Glowworn told him Kyoshi, Jianzhu offered Yun to the spirit, Yun resisted as much as he could but in the end managed to trick Father Glowworn by absorbing his essence.

Using the power boost Yun sought revenge that ended with Kyoshi ending her life and disappearing any trace of Father Glowworn as well.

However, according to the data from the Breach comics, Lady Tienhai, a spirit who was believed dead in Yangchen's time, because she gave up her spiritual form to stay with the King of a Kingdom that was located in the same place that would eventually become Republic City, returned as a spirit in Aang's time, revealing that spirits after a certain time can return and with their power restored.

From Kyoshi's time until the cataclysm centuries passed, enough time for Father Glowworn to return and with his power restored, probably with desires of revenge against the Avatar and Humanity.

The leaks mentioned Father Glowworn implicitly but it is there and may be confirmed as well, but that is just my opinion, I don't know if anyone else has something to say.

Per the timeline in official Avatar Studios website, Dawn of Yangchen takes place 9347 years after Wan's Harmonic Convergence, which translates to 483 or 482 BG. The years in this timeline aren't perfectly aligned with BG/AG years as it has ATLA B1/B2 and TLOK B1/B2 taking place in the same year, so it can be either. However, since Yangchen is stated to be 17, it's more likely to be 483 as it would make sense for her birth date to be rounded to 500 BG by the creators.

I know that the creators currently haven’t and likely will never answer this question for many good and obvious reasons, but let's think about it regardless. First, even though the characters simply call their world “Earth”, if you look at the map of their "world", you can see that it definitely looks nothing like the real world where we live in, so it could not possibly be our real world. Also, the only hint we have so far of the wider cosmological setting of the "world" is this scene from the 12th episode of Book 2 of The Legend of Korra (known as Harmonic Convergence) showing eight planets orbiting a sun-like star. As you can see, the planetary system shown looks quite different from our own Solar System, so the “world” couldn’t possibly be a planet in our own solar system either. So where do you think could the “world” of the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise possibly be? Is it in a separate universe from our own? Or do you think that it could actually be a world located somewhere in our own universe, possibly one of the many exoplanets we have already discovered which we, unfortunately, have given an alphanumerical designation without any knowledge of what might actually be going on there? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. There’s no harm in speculating.

PS: No jokes about James Cameron's Avatar franchise please! Though when you think about it, regardless of where the "world" of the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise is and how similar to organisms on Earth its organisms may appear to be, all of its inhabitants including all of the characters are technically just as "alien" as the Na'vi in James Cameron's Avatar franchise from our perspective since they technically do not originate from our world!

Theoretically blood-bending can be used to burst the blood vessels within someone since in the same episode it was introduced in Hama took water out of a tree which means you could do that with people...

So, I got to thinking; what is supposed to happen if "10,000 years of Darkness" were to happen? What would happen to Humanity during this period? I think it could be possible that Humanity could be forced Underground. It'd likely be safe enough from Vaatu.

However, what if it had happened before? If memory serves me correctly, both Vaatu and Raava had won their duels each. So, what happened to Humanity in those times? I think it could be possible they went Underground. What if some Humans never left the Underground to live on the Surface? What if those Humans who stayed Underground ended up trapped there?

I think it would be cool if either the Avatar rediscovers them or they finally reach the Surface. Maybe they could be Earthbenders? Or different groups connected to each Element? Or... something else entirely?

What do you think?

So, something just cameo mind; when Korra was in the Spirit World her emotions could affect Spirits, turning them into Dark Spirits. This is despite her being connected to Raava the Spirit of Light and Peace. If this is true; then that would mean that had Vaatu fused with a good person; that person's emotions could turn Dark Spirits back into regular Spirits. At least in theory. This works (or would likely work) due to both Raava And Vaatu having a little Darkness and Light in each other (like Yin and Yang).

Now, we can't really prove this as Vaatu won't re-emerge for another 10,000 Years. But, it is at the very least; plausible.

What do you think?