i just saw the years kuruk lived from - he died when he was only 28 years old! when did we learn this? also, I was quite suprised, but i had a thought: could this be the reason kyoshi lived to 230 years old?
i just saw the years kuruk lived from - he died when he was only 28 years old! when did we learn this? also, I was quite suprised, but i had a thought: could this be the reason kyoshi lived to 230 years old?
@Intel You're right again.
During his first appearance, Koh said that Kuruk attempted to kill him eight or nine hundred years ago at Aang's time. Continuity error anybody?
Either that or maybe time moves differently in the Spirit World. or Maybe Koh is just really bad at keeping track of time.
I don't remember that at all. I remember Koh saying one of the Avatar's previous lives tried to kill him, but I don't remember him saying anything beyond that. Unless this is information coming from the "Escape from the Spirit World" game, then I'd have to say it wasn't ever said anywhere. Koh wasn't at all specific, he didn't give a time frame or a name, just that one of the previous Avatars attempted to kill him.
I agree more with Tarrlok. It seems that Avatars can make their spirits look however they want. Your theory could be true, but then wouldn't Aang be shown as a child/teenager? He ended the Century War as a 12 year-old---the war caused the most problems he had to solve, like saving villages, alerting the Earth King of the war, just trying to have Team Avatar survive, and find a willing Firebending master; AND the war was the most important problem in his time to solve--amazing for a child to end a WAR!
But in Legend of Korra Book 1, when Korra was looking at the line of other Avatars, Aang was an adult. It just seems that the Avatars are shown as adults, however they want/choose to be seen as they looked at a certain time in their adult life, like Kyoshi as a young/normal adult or Roku as an elder, despite their ages being much different.
as seen with the latest episode, it's not how they choose to appear, but as they feel/percieve themselves.
@OrderedComa it was in the episode, not the show. The exact quote is "One of your previous incarnations tried to kill me, maybe eight or nine hundred years ago."
There is a lot of possible continuity error that is magically resolved in the Escape from the Spirit World game. Kioshi was born 400 years before Aang's time, or about 300 years before the birth of Aang. Roku lived into at least his 60's or 70's, which leaves only 230 years between the births of Kioshi and Roku, however their respective birth nations are consecutive in the Avatar cycle. To resolve this confusing conflict there were two options: a total of five avatars had to live and die during that time (let's do some math: earth avatar Kioshi born at year whatever, fire avatar, air avatar, water avatar, earth avatar, fire avatar Roku born at year whatever plus 230. Five lifetimes in 230 years gives each avatar 46 years to live on average) or to make Kioshi live 230 years. Which one to pick? The one where a single human outlives a sea turtle thats which. Because logic.
here's a question: in b1 of atla, it was demonstrated that waterbending is dependent on the moon. how does that fit in with beginnings? it really doesn't....just because a spirit died, only one of the elements gets nullified?? yeah, right.