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| By King Bumis Heir | Part of the Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan continuity. |
| 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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| "Mercy spares the guilty. Justice spares the next victim." |
| — Avatar Bhudev says in The Grove of False Faces. |
Bhudev is the Earth Kingdom Avatar succeeding Avatar Manirak, and preceding before Avatar Kaenakai. Bhudev is also the Earth Kingdom Avatar before, Avatar Xi Tong. Bhudev appears in the fanon Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan and his own standalone one-shot The Grove of False Faces.
History[]
According to Jushi, Avatar Bhudev is his ancestor, Bhudev was born in the Hami tribe within the Si Wong province. His village is called Tuxi Cun, which is later destroyed by bandits in Rong Yan's time, the same village Jushi came from. Bhudev traveled the world to master the four elements.
Traditionally, the Avatar must master all the elements in the order of the Avatar cycle or terrible things will happen. Bhudev mastered the elements in his own order which led to the Si Wong province facing many hardships throughout the first thirty years of his life.
Bhudev mastered water before air and fire which historians likely believe enraged Tiandi. The chief deity likely punished Avatar Bhudev for this. A massive earthquake struck the central earthquake which sent aftershocks across the Oma Kingdom. One such aftershock caused a tsunami to form which endangered his hometown of Tuxi Cun and the capital of the Hami Tribe, Huang He.
In an effort to prevent the tsunami from destroying everything he loved Bhudev formed a canyon near the coast that ran through the Hami territory before it stopped near Wuyi province's borders and borders with Alxa Tribe. The canyon later became Bhudev's Sea as a reminder that Avatar Bhudev saved Tuxi Cun.
In Bhudev's late thirties, there had been a great conflict between the five tribes of the Si Wong province. The main culprits being the Isoro tribe, a band of war-born savage warriors that killed entire villages and performed child sacrifice rituals in the name of their blasphemous gods.
The leaders of the Hami, Junggar, Alxa, and Gaxun tribes wanted the Isoro gone from the face of Shanshen. Bhudev believed the unification of the Si Wong tribes would lead to a far better future. Bhudev genocided the Isoro capital city first and even killed the king who ruled the Isoro.
Finally, an old friend of his the only Isoro he knew not to be bloodthirsty the village elder he knew. He killed his friend and his village last which hurt him the most but he knew what needed to be done. The Isoro would never learn to be peaceful it was in their cultural nature to kill. This was one of his biggest regrets about the eradication of the Isoro people because he felt he was at fault for the destruction of innocent lives. But it needed to be done, the Isoro must be erased to balance the world.
Later in Bhudev's life did he develop his own style of earthbending later known as the Bhudev-style. The Avatar studied many other bending forms that further expanded his style of earthbending. Bhudev taught his children, and his children future generations, the sandbenders native to the Si Wong province mostly know Bhudev-style and are much more effective in the sand than solid land.
Hami-Junggar Civil War[]
After Avatar Bhudev caused the genocide of the Isoro tribes, the Hami declared civil war on the Junggar over the empty land left in ruins. Despite Avatar Bhudev, being part of the Hami Tribe he stayed out of the civil war. Queen Chuntao of the Qian Kingdom attempted to end things on neutral standing but failed miserably. The war lasted for three years and the Junggar Tribe emerged victorious conquering the empty lands and expanding their territory. Moving their capital Altai further to the northwest; preventing the Hami at the time from invading and taking the land.
The Grove of False Faces[]
Bhudev's morning tranquility was broken when a reedback crane-moth arrived bearing a message from an anonymous friend. It requested his urgent presence in a hamlet known as, Meiyun's Hollow. With quiet resolve, he gathered his things and some supplies and departed for Anlu province. After two days of flight, he arrives in the crescent-shaped hamlet, where decay clings to the buildings, the fires burn dim, and a heavy mist veils the streets. The village shrine of Di stands untouched amid the rot, and whispers of the dead torment the sleepless townsfolk.
The village constable pleads for Bhudev’s help, revealing that Master Rensu, their elder and healer, was murdered in the heart of the Banyan Grove tree—where he once sealed away a dangerous spirit. The people have begun hallucinating and hearing the voices of lost loved ones. As Bhudev investigates, he interviews three suspects: a mute tanner named Tuk, the sharp-tongued silk merchant Xiulan, and the gentle apothecary Bao. Each encounter brings a piece of the truth. Tuk, devastated but innocent, recounts finding Rensu’s body. Xiulan, prideful and unfazed, denies involvement. Bao, warm and slippery, offers a tale laced with subtle lies and admits to crafting charms for Rensu—yet his calm demeanor unsettles Bhudev.
Through spiritual attunement, Bhudev uncovers a hidden shaft beneath Bao’s apothecary, revealing the sealed chamber of a trapped spirit. As he descends into the haunted grove once more, a deceptive apparition wearing the guise of a benevolent swamp spirit reveals her true identity as Mienmu, a mimic that devours the memories and voices of the dead. In a dramatic confrontation, Bhudev traps her within a circle of fire and ancient runes, using the name Rensu died to uncover. Mienmu is sealed, and the true guardian spirit, Shuilian thanks the Avatar. Bhudev enters the brass mirror and communes with the late Rensu who blesses Bhudev with a seedling of light before he passes into the light. But his task is not yet complete. Knowing the village deserves justice—not secrecy—he publicly accuses Bao of treason against the living and the dead.
In a final act of judgment, Bhudev executes the apothecary and burns down his tainted shop. In the ashes, he plants the spirit-seed where Bao once hid the mimic’s influence, giving it sacred ground to grow and cleanse the place of its haunting. As dawn breaks, Bhudev departs Meiyun’s Hollow in silence. The villagers remain hushed, stunned by what they’ve witnessed. They murmur of justice, of legends made real. He leaves behind no speeches or accolades—only scorched earth and a sacred sprout. His shadow stretches across the mist as he boards Alburuz once more and prepares to return home.
Yet even as he departs, Bhudev knows balance has only just been restored, not perfected. There are other places in the world where fear wears a face, where spirits hunger, and where the Avatar is still needed. His hands may be weathered, but they still shape stone and fate alike. And so the legend of Avatar Bhudev continues, not in fire or war, but in quiet acts of justice—and the planting of truths in the darkest hollows of the world.
Relatives[]
- Jushi (Descendant)
- Anila (Wife)
- Unnamed Children
- Unnamed Grandchildren
Abilities[]
Avatar Bhudev was known to be a master of all four elements and even of the Avatar State being able to enter and exit it at any time. He even developed his own earthbending style by studying the forms of other element benders and discovering many new moves. Bhudev was able to bend the earth within earth-based pigments of paint whether dry or wet.
Liquify solid earth without heating it, expand solid earth into the sand, compress sand into solid earth, liquify earth into lava by heating it up, and even bending iron. Bhudev was also a devotee of Shanshen which allowed him to master Spiritual Tantrism.
Spiritual Tantrism[]
Spiritual Tantrism allowed the user to sense the emotions of a person by feeling their heart chakra, can feel or see their auras, and can even see through the eyes of an individual with enough concentration as long as they place their fingers on both the heart and third eye chakra.
Appearances[]
Avatar: The Legacy of Rong Yan[]
Book Three: Earth[]
Avatar: The Legend of Korra[]
Book One: Air[]
Avatar Rong Yan's Life[]
Avatar Bhudev appears to Rong Yan by the request of Mun Jin, Rong Yan previously killed an entire capital city alone. Which eradicated about 2 million lives, Rong Yan felt conflicted with himself but Mun Jin, Kaenakai and Bhudev told him, the Avatar makes decisions based on what's best for the world.
Avatar Korra's Life[]
During the time when Avatar Korra, had lost her bending to Amon, she had returned to the Southern Water Tribe or the compound she first was in, where Katara, had tried her best to heal Korra.
To no avail, Korra had left to cry at a snowy cliff, where she thought that Tenzin had approached her. When in fact it was Avatar Aang. She stood up, as Aang was conversing with her, and then all of Korra's past lives appeared.
Bhudev is one of the Avatar's in the back row that could still be seen, he's wear a green hat on his head.
| Preceded by Avatar Avani; Eventually Avatar Manirak |
Avatar 1544 BG - 1463 BG (BG) |
Succeeded by Avatar Kaenakai |
Trivia[]
- Bhudev means "divinity upon Earth" in Sanskrit.
- Bhudev is the ancestor of Jushi.
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