This is gonna be somewhat long with her lore so iâll add a read more
I started watching Avatar: The last airbender again and lemme tell you I fucking love airbenders.
This is Aoga, an Airbender who was adopted into an Earthbending family when she was a child. Despite this, she managed to master Airbending at age 10, before she even joined an air bending temple. While she mastered her techniques and continued training, she refused to get her tattoos. She felt at home with Airbenders but she had grown up in the Earth Kingdom and had incorporated their movements into many techniques, and she felt as though tattooing herself was not important and labeled her unnecessarily. Aoga was not as peaceful as those around her either. While she didn't seek out conflict, she wasn't hesitant about letting her feelings be known and had more than once used her bending to end an argument. Due to her reluctance to follow tradition, some Airbenders ostracized her, leading her to eventually leave and begin her own temple. Her temple was located close to the outer regions of the Earth Kingdom, high in the mountains and often covered in fog.
By 26 she had drawn a large following of Airbenders who wanted to learn her techniques or felt ostracized. Many of the Airbenders who trained beneath her became known as the best and fiercest airbenders. Many of them mastered fight and spirit projection, and they studied the spirit realm extensively to the point they knew how to preserve a body while the spirit was separated. These studies were heavily focused upon and practiced when the war began. In an attempt to preserve their culture, and in hopes that by saving at least one of them they'd be able to teach the young avatar when he was found, Aoga's temple began a quest to preserve benders in the temple.
Before any proper lists could be made, they heard of one temple being destroyed and the benders killed. Knowing they'd be killed soon, the temple agreed to preserve Aoga, who was now 35. She wanted to stay and fight, but they claimed a master like her should be saved to help finish the war should they come to it. She dressed in funeral garb to mourn her soon to be fallen companions and separated her spirit into the spirit realm while they hid her body in a secret casket beneath the floor, which would open and return her when someone found the code in one of the library books.
Aoga remained in the spirit realm, not aging, as time passed. She was finally returned to her body when travelers from Republic City searched through the temple's library to preserve the Airbending history in a museum. She awakes to find the war over, and the new avatar is Korra.
