| By Cangse Sanren | Part of the Phoenix Rising continuity. |
Princess Aurelia was a submissive waterbending master from the Southern Water Tribe and the daughter of it's former chief before Hakoda. She was the very last to be captured and imprisoned by the Fire Nation during the Southern Water Tribe raids, allowing herself to be captured in order to protect Kanna, but she escaped through the use of bloodbending, a waterbending technique she developed while incarcerated. Upon her escape, she fled to a small town in the Fire Nation, where she became an innkeeper. Every full moon, Aurelia exacted her revenge on the Fire Nation by imprisoning villagers from her town in a mountain cave.
History[]
Early life[]
In her youth, Aurelia was close friends with Kanna, the grandmother of Sokka and Katara and the two were even lovers for a time period. For years, Aurelia was one of many waterbenders residing in the Southern Water Tribe; however, before 40 AG, when she was a young adult, the Fire Nation began raiding the Southern Water Tribe, and systematically weakened its defenses by capturing waterbenders through hit-and-run attacks. Aurie and her fellow waterbenders did everything they could to resist the firebending army, and they even managed to freeze at least one ship by suspending it on ice. However, as the raids continued, more and more waterbenders were captured, until Aurelia and Kanna were the last waterbenders standing in the Southern Tribe. She eventually surrendered and was led away in chains to be transported back to the Fire Nation to be imprisoned.
Discovering bloodbending[]
While imprisoned, she and the other waterbenders were caged and separated from each other. The Fire Nation ensured that the waterbenders could not use water to escape; the prison kept humidity to a minimum so no water could be pulled from the air, and the waterbenders' limbs were chained whenever they were given water. However, each month Aurelia could feel the power of the full moon and knew there had to be a way to escape. After held captive and tortured for two decades, she realized that because water exists within all living things, she could control them by bending the water inside their bodies, and escape. Only during full moons, when her bending was at its peak, could Aurelia manipulate the water in the bodies of the elephant rats in her cell, and after many years of practice, she mastered this ability, which she named bloodbending. On the night of her escape, Aurelia used bloodbending to control one of the prison guards assigned to keep her locked in and forced him to unlock her cage, allowing her to escape from the prison.
She later moved into a small Fire Nation village, becoming the keeper of a modest inn. Consumed by a desire for revenge over the harsh treatment she and her fellow waterbenders had to endure in the waterbender prison, she began using her bloodbending abilities to abduct the Fire Nation villagers every full moon, forcing them to walk up a mountain where she imprisoned them in a cave. On one of these nights, Aurelia bloodbent and forced him to walk toward her mountain prison. Before she could lock him in the cave, however, the sun began to rise, breaking her grip on the man, and he escaped.
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List of Avatar: Phoenix Rising Characters |
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| Main Characters |
| Ozai Northuldra - Zuko Caldera - Azula Pathuk - Katara Pathuk - Sokka Pathuk - Aang Soren - Toph Beifong - Yue Elizabeth - Marissa Aquarius - Ursa Caldera |
| Main Secondary Characters |
| Kya Pathuk - Hakoda Pathuk - Iroh Caldera - Bato Northuldra - Kalika Evergreen - Kuruk - Aisling Soren - Roku Hira'a - Kanna Pathuk - Maya Northuldra - Zhao - Suki Korra |
| Minor Characters |
| Melody Hira'a - Arnook - Coral Elena - Pakku - Sozin Caldera - Lisanna Caldera - Azulon Caldera - Ilah Caldera - Aurelia Panuk - Jeong Jeong - Piandao| |