#atla lore

[mfelewzi]

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Nuevo adelanto del libro de arte "Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures from Avatar:The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra", que sale el

Ehi @camcat1320 , some ideas for you!

And for @atlaculture and @atla-lore-archive , some new designs for the Animals. Link in description, if you know a bit too much.

I'm not a fan of AtlA's comics, but Good Style remains good.

[theprincessregent]

One of the most interesting canonical pieces of ATLA lore to me is that polygamy is actively practiced in the Earth Kingdom Royal House. Kuei, like, THE Bosco-Bear loving Earth King, canonically has multiple wives at the time ATLA takes place. And this was from the contemporary material of the time, not retroactively-added/retconned stuff - the nick.com site lore backed up on the "lost lore of avatar aang" account (https://atla-lore-archive.tumblr.com/) is my source. It's also described that he lived his life surrounded by courtesans. It's not a total surprise the Earth King would have a royal harem considering the Earth Kingdom takes a lot of influence from Imperial China, but it is different to think that versus to actually have it said on nickelodeon dot com that 'yeah this exists in my children's show lore and also isn't made up by some random fic writer.' It's a shame this isn't much known or talked about, but also pretty understandable -- seeing as, well, there aren't many fics that go into detail on Earth Kingdom Royal Politics, because there aren't really many exciting characters to work with unless you start inventing OCs left and right. And I can hardly fault anyone for finding Earth King Kuei... Not the most exciting ATLA character to write about. I mean I've done some Dai Li stuff, a lot of Dai Li stuff, my whole Long Feng's secret daughter Dai Li stuff in fact, but I could definitely stand to do some Kuei character exploration sometime... But then, who? Without inventing an OC to fill the lead role.... Who could be an interesting character to act as our intro to the Earth Kingdom Royal, who could possibly be learning alongside us and so help guide a reader along? Well, we do have one particular girl who did canonically take the mantle of Earth Queen after usurping Kuei...

If Azula stayed as the Earth Queen instead of going back to the Fire Nation with Zuko in Book 3, I wonder if she'd find herself well, adapting to the lifestyle. This, indeed, could be Maizulee.

There's a lot of extremely good lore present in this archive that more fic writers should be made aware of. It's also where I get my "Azula after the Last Agni Kai is shipped to a guarded Fire Sage Island that serves as a Fire Nation mental-health therapy equivalent" post-canon plot from. After all, there's many kinds of mental health facilities, and it's much more reasonable for the Fire Nation to have said facilities based on their own culture rather than Victorian asylums.

I have been planning to write a fic eventually based around an 'Earth Queen Azula' premise - Azula is told by Ozai to stay in Ba Sing Se because she's his most valuable asset and should be in use plus her redeeming Zuko worked a little 'too' well. I should brainstorm that sometime.

[yeetspace]

Noticing something that I love because it directly correlates to the avatars looking like their past reincarnations loves, Asami seems to pluck her eyebrows or at the very least make them extremely thin in comparison to what they normally would be because looking at both of her parents they have much thicker eyebrows than her, and then if we are to look at Avatar pavi, if we are also to look at in comparison the picture of Asami her father and her mother from when they were all still with each other, interpreting that she would grow into thicker eyebrows than the ones that she has because she then changes them, looks pretty damn similar to pavi even though they don't have the same skin color

Aang looked like Ta Min the girl that Roku had a crush on, Roku looked like kiyoshi's firebender girlfriend, kiyoshi looked like kuruks would be girlfriend, and then kuruk looked like Yang Chen's lover because she is the only outlier in being The Straight Avatar out of the Sea of Saphiccs

[zukkaart]

Do you guys think Zuko made Aang’s final air-nomad outfit?

Like canonically out of them, only Katara and Zuko can sew. And I’d imagine Katara was pretty wrapped up after that final battle with not only healing Sokka’s leg, but knowing her- probably healing anyone else she could get her hands on. And she also would have no knowledge of what traditional air nomad formals would look like.

And yeah I guess Aang could have made it himself. But he was only 12 the last time he saw the monks. And I highly doubt they taught him much past how to repair is own clothing.

But who spent years studying the monks and air bending? Who became obsessed with their culture and traditions in an attempt to find the last one? Who searched all the air temples not once but twice, from top to bottom? Who canonically makes his own clothes (i.e. the blue spirit outfit)?

Zuko, always Zuko

I also like to think that the relic/amulet Aang wears in that same scene was also given to him by Zuko. Just bc I’m sure Zuko kept a lot of air nomad things on his ship, and I think either he or his uncle would have salvaged it- probably out of convenience. Zuko as a reminder of his “purpose”, and Iroh as a symbol of hope.

[0bscvr1ty]

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[iil-nonbinary-baby-bitch]

Wakes up in dead of night sweating and crazy eyed

Would lesbians in the the ATLA universe call themselves Kyoshins?!

[nyxelestia]

New headcanon:

The East India Western Kingdom Trading Company was founded by the Beifongs.

We know that the Beifongs are rich, but we don't actually know where that wealth comes from. It doesn't sound like they're nobility, so it's not from owning land (or at least, not just from owning land). We do know that documents from them are recognized and respected as far as Ba Sing Se despite their home being all the way down in Gaoling almost on the other side of the Earth Kingdom...specifically, over in the southwest of the Earth Kingdom.

Meaning Gyatso's sister was killed by Toph's ancestor.

[biconickyoshi]

Hello! I wanted to ask, in The Avatar and the Fire Prince AU, how does reincarnation (The Avatar Cycle) works? In Canon, the Avatar is a human soul (Wan) who after death reincarnates on Earth in a new body to live a new life with the Spirit of Peace (Raava) bounded to it. But how about in your AU? I'm asking because I want to know whether or not we're going to have a scene with Aang having an existential crisis over the fact that in his previous life he was Zuko's great-grandfather.

Hello anon! :) Yes, I do my best to ensure that my AU is as canon compliant as possible when it comes to lore (including all known lore from Legend of Korra, the comics, the TTRPG, and the Chronicles of the Avatar novels), so the Avatar Cycle does indeed work the exact same.

I honestly haven't given a ton of thought to Aang and Zuko's reaction of who Roku was (though it will definitely still be revealed at some point just like in the show). While I think they would both maybe find it a little weird of a coincidence at first, I don't think it would cause either of them to freak out or anything lol.

We've definitely seen weird coincidences/connections like this before with other Avatars - for example, Kuruk and Hei-Ran were past lovers (before he met Ummi), and then he was reincarnated as Kyoshi, who fell in love with Hei-Ran's daughter Rangi. Then we have Korra, who was taught waterbending by someone who is basically a grandmother figure to her (Katara), and who was also technically "her" wife in her past life. She was also taught airbending by someone who is a father/uncle figure to her (Tenzin), who was also technically "her" son in her past life.

In general, there seems to be an understanding amongst everyone in the world of AtLA that each Avatar is very much their own distinct person, each with different lives, memories, and personalities. Sometimes more spiritual people - like Toph for example - can see that the Avatar has the same spirit/soul, but again, even Toph knows Korra is her own person and not just Aang with none of his memories lol.

Of course, if Aang had a problem like Yangchen did in which he was constantly having flashbacks to memories from his previous lives, then I'd say that yeah lol, he'd be much more likely to have an existential crisis. But as far as we know, Aang does not have any "memories" of living as Roku or any other previous Avatar - he only views previous Avatars' life events from an outside perspective. And even if he did have the ability to "remember" living as Roku, at least he wouldn't be able to "remember" actively being a grandfather to Zuko, since Zuko and even Ursa were born decades after Roku's death. That would definitely be awkward if that wasn't the case lol.

All of this has actually got me thinking about the theory where an Avatar could possibly reincarnate as their own child/grandchild/relative, especially with mixed-ethnicity/nation families becoming more common in the time of Korra. Like, say an Earth Avatar dies right as their child with someone of Fire Nation descent (or their grandchild, or sibling, or cousin, etc.) is born. As long as they have the right DNA, a relative of the Avatar could theoretically be the next Avatar in this scenario. The closest thing I could compare this to is like a Steven Universe situation (where he kind of both is and isn't his own mom - it's hard to explain if you haven't seen that show lmao).

Anywayyyy sorry for the long ass response anon lol. I just love talking about AtLA lore! :)