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{{Property other | nation = water | author = King Bumis Heir | series = Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan }}
| Juji's fine. He comes back to life in the end when the doomsday device shifts the polarity of the Earth. Oops. Spoiler. Sorry.
Warning! This page contains spoilers for Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan.
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| "Why would Inuksuk entrust you to bring him to me if he knew my art form was illegal. He used outsiders because using locals would endanger my safety. I use my bending for healing not fighting, I perform miracles." |
| — Aumanil reasoned with Rong Yan not to kill her in Chapter 17: The Northern Water Tribe. |
Aumanil is a minor character in the fanon Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan. Aumanil, was Sakana's adoptive mother, who took him when Sakana had snapped and killed his father. She's also a healer who specializes in using bloodbending.
History[]
Not much is known of Aumanil, though when she had learned bloodbending she only used her bending abilities for good. Breaking the stereotypes of all bloodbenders being evil.
Aumanil was first encountered when Aipaloovik and Sakana had traveled to the Earth Kingdom's Yantai River. There at the river hidden somewhere within the tall trees surrounding a small isle was a shrine of Atshen.
Atshen is the cannibalistic spirit that represents bloodbending. Not that bloodbenders are cannibals. Atshen is an evil spirit and sometimes claimed to be a neutral spirit as he does things that are good and evil. The spirit that is praised by any bloodbenders who follow the true tradition and rites of bloodbenders.
It is said that Atshen will cleanse the bender of any madness they have attained and slightly increase their bloodbending abilities for an offering of their blood. Aipaloovik had made his offering and had also forced his son to do the same.
Right after he punished his son by bloodbending him. Aumanil was there as well she had saved Sakana from being bent even more and defended the boy. Sakana had snapped and turned on his father, now that the ritual was done, he broke out of his father's grip and bloodbended Aipaloovik.
Sakana had continued the grip and purposely killed his father. From then on he had broken down in tears and had told his story to Aumanil. The boy was an orphan now, and she decided to take him under her wing. Adopting Sakana, Aumanil had taught him to only use his bloodbending for when he was in danger.
Situations that threatened his life, Aumanil had been Sakana's master in healing with the use of bloodbending. Even though he did not know much of the healing remedies his adoptive mother had taught him. He still used these abilities to heal any injuries.
The Witch of the North[]
Aumanil is known as the fabled Witch of the North to many, those who grew up within the past twenty years know her as a fable tale told to misbehaving children. The tale goes that the Witch of the North either came for the children or even sent her children smaller blue-skinned goblins for children and kidnapped them.
The majority of people are not aware she's a real person, a number of few know her personally and are regular patients to the healer. Keeping her healing a secret from the rest of the population because doing so will endanger her life. Bloodbending was made illegal in the Northern and Southern Water Tribes by Avatar Anana after the Blood War.
While stereotypically most bloodbenders use their bending for evil, a few use it for the greater good and have taken to using it for healing. When Rong Yan and Aloi arrived with Inuksuk the old man they rescued, they met Aumanil. Although they didn't learn she was a bloodbender until she used it in her healing session with Inuksuk.
Rong Yan and Aloi went into defensive mode and were going to attack when both Aumanil and Inuksuk reasoned with the Avatar and his friend. Aumanil offered to assist Rong Yan with his spiritual blockage if he let her live. When she healed Inuksuk he was able to limp with the injured leg.
She noticed Rong Yan's energies were being blocked with the use of a prayer to the Tribesmen pantheon and bloodbending she removed the block that prevented him from contacting Avatar Mun Jin. The added bonus was that the polar opposite weakness that every Avatar deals with was also removed.
It allowed Rong Yan to quickly learn waterbending with Naartok than with Tanaraq who only showed him the basics. While it took his three years to master the element Naartok wanted to make sure he had it down.
Abilities[]
Waterbending[]
Aumanil was born a waterbender in the Northern Water Tribe, though due to her culture she wasn't trained to use waterbending as an offensive style. She was taught to use it her bending solely for healing.
Aumanil was known to be one of the best healers the Northern Water Tribe, had to offer. Though eventually, she had money to travel to Ba Sing Se, where she had visited the royal library of the Earth King. She was there on royal business when the Earth King had fallen deeply ill.
Bloodbending[]
When Aumanil was 26-years-old, 41st Earth King Ta Po. She had found a book on a bending art called bloodbending. She had read that it could be used in two different ways. Though she had no interest or intentions to use it for fighting, she used it for healing and to enhance her abilities of healing.
She spent months in the city of Ba Sing Se, training in this secret and unique art of waterbending. While she did heal the Earth King he wasn't entirely cured of his heart problems.
Six months had passed when she had finally mastered a few forms of bloodbending. She had bloodbent the Earth King and cured him of his heart problems. The Earth King was well a day after.
Ta Po had asked the young woman what she had used, when she answered she said, she had bent the blood within his heart and veins to rid of the infections and increasing the rate of his white blood cells being produced.
The Earth King had given the book to Aumanil as a gift and gratitude for ridding of his heart problems. She went back to the Northern Water Tribe, but if word went out to Chief Cupun about her discovery of bloodbending, she would be executed. She fled the city and moved to an abandoned cabin outside Arrluk's Village.
Aumanil had cured a blind man from the local village when word got out about the cure, the village elder swore to protect the healer at all costs. Rumors eventually spread about a bloodbender nearby.
When the chief's men came to hunt for the bloodbender, they left empty-handed the village warrior's lied to the chief's soldiers. They dubbed her the "The Witch of the North", and said the Witch was merely a tale to scare misbehaving children. When the elder offered to take Aumanil into the village she refused.
But in return, she offered to heal the villagers whenever they fell gravely ill. To city folk she's just the Witch of the North, while to others who've once lived in Arrluk's village and now live in the city know of her status. They refuse to visit city healers in exchange for Aumanil.
Relatives[]
- Sakana (Adopted Son;Deceased)
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Aumanil means "kind and beneficient spirit" in Inuit.
- In the comic version, Aumanil was just called "The Witch of the North" as she really didn't have a name until now.
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