#atla ttrpg

[biconickyoshi]

Is this the first ever time we’ve gotten official show-style art of Lu Ten??? I love him so much, he’s got Iroh’s eyes 😭

[hermajestythebomb]

Ok so I finally watched the movie, it had been sitting on my hard drive for some time now...BUUUUUUUT, I kept hoping that it would be released on cinemas, at last...it didn't happen.

Did I like the movie? Yes, Do I have critisisms? also yes...I'm not about to review the movie in here.

I am much more interested in the implications of the film.

See, as truly great as the original is (And I really think the original animated series is one of the greatest things ever since bread) I do think there has been some waisted oportunities in the ATLA universe, and I do think the worldbuilding is amazing but it only did so much; and part of what I liked about Legend of Korra was the profundization of the lore.

So...the most ancient avatar we see in ATLA is Yangchen, the oldest event we see is Kyoshi splitting of the land, we see pretty much from the start that near everywhere is just a few years away from the Industrial Revolution, and then in ATLOK the industrial revolution already happened, we see the four nations (yes, including the air nomads) already formed AS nations, there's AN Earth Kingdom, A Fire Nation, A Northen Water Tribe, A Southern Watertribe and the four temples...already as nation states. Interconected Nation States (You have to know someone to fight with someone, so ATLA is on a world war already, you know how advanced a scociety needs to be in order for these types of interactions to be possible in the first place?)

so what I really liked about the movie was the implication of an antiquity, of a sort of bronce age of sorts (there were implications of the Bronce Age in the Avatar Wan episodes of Korra but it was just a few seconds), and you know, of a period in the Earth Kingdom BEFORE there was an Earth Kingdom. kinda like the Quin dinasty (ooooh a romance of the 3 earth kingdoms would be cool as shit); how cool would that be? Avatar in Antiquity? Imagine, the avatar still needs to learn all 4 elements, but there's not a real posibility of travel across all nations to find teachers because the world isn't THAT connected yet, and has to learn from spirits or the original benders or some shit, and like, there's a bunch of clans in the Earth Kingdom and they're warring with each other, there's a bunch of Airbenders but they're truly nomadic they don't have a homebase or something and the Fire Nation also has smaller kingdoms and feudalism and samurai.

The Air City on the movie looked so great, How cool would it be to see something set on the era of Avatar Sonam?

See, recently I played a one shot in the Avatar TRPG (my character is an edgy firebender who is a pirate but used to be a soldier in the Peony wars, she was drafted by her liege as part of her feudal army, like Mulan if her army had lost) and what I loved the most was the posibility of sectionalism within the firenation...Local nobles, civil war, etc. Now...Imagine seing the place BEFORE there was a Firelord.

I think the next Avatar series should be placed WAY in the past, not WAY in the future, like, I'd rather see Romance Of The Three Kingdoms ATLA than Fallout ATLA.

I loved the flashbacks to antiquity.

[bluecatdraws]

managed one more ref to add to my art fight collection before it starts!

[circlique]

Chapter 4: Moonlight

Overall Rating: Mature (this chapter, Gen)

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen, Multi

Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender

In the era of Kyoshi, a scrap of ancient history was discovered. Faded by centuries of dust and neglect, all that could be discerned from the tattered parchment was the words, “Dai Li’s agents brought balance to the chaos of Ba Sing Se.” It is from this that Kyoshi would find the inspiration to establish a new police force in Ba Sing Se in her era. But what of the original Dai Li? Thousands of years before Kyoshi, Kuruk, and Yangchen–a history all but lost to time–the world teetered on the brink. Nations one incident from all out war, environments destroyed by the greed of man, and spirits angered by the insolence of humanity. The spirits threatened to wipe them all out, unless the humans could make a change. From this chaos, a man named Dai Li attempted to unite the world. With his charismatic aura and strange bending abilities, he all but compelled his followers to complete devotion. His power spread, commanding total submission. His daughter, however, would ruin his plans. After his first fall, Dai Li, thought dead, faded into obscurity, and his daughter, granted a strange power by the last Lion Turtle, rose to fill the void of the absent Avatar. Ten years later, Dai Li would rear his head again, and Juno, knowing humanity under Dai Li’s rule would have no humanity at all, sought out her own band of benders to take on her father. With all their differences and flaws, she will have her work cut out for her as they face Dai Li’s enigmatic cult, their own demons, and the Avatar of whom no one speaks.

In this chapter:

The hallway was illuminated by the faint light of the moon shining in through the window at the end. The hallway was empty, but by the moonlight, he could see all the way down the hall into the common area. Across the suite, the doorway that led from the common area to the outdoor walkway beyond—the door that should have been locked—was ever so slightly ajar…and as Chai Li watched it, it slowly drifted shut.

Someone had been here.

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Prologue/Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

[glutenfreepunk]

My friend invited me to play the Avatar Tabletop RPG, so I present to you: Kashuo the Rogue Airbender. He utilizes his unorthodox method of air bending to fuel high flying taekwondo kicks, as well as being an amplifier for his throat singing. Oh yeah btw, do you wanna join his band? It’s more of a metaphorical band rn, but it’s in the work. Totally.

[ettawritesnstudies]

Animated a lil meme for my ATLA DnD Party!

[islepttoolong]

Long time, no post my lovelies! I'd like to share my new podcast where some friends and I play the brand new Avatar: Legend TTRPG. Set during the 100 years war, I play a defector from the Fire Nation Army who protects the vulnerable, runs into some familiar faces and has some good laughs along the way! Come join in the fun!

[spitebears]

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"Who are you"

a comic a long time coming showing one of my favorite scenes from my ATLA game. My character is the airbender, Sora. Seraphine belongs to my friend Sarina, she's the one in the grey. Seraphine's cousin, Asira, is an NPC and arc-villain.

This is only one half of this conversation! After Seraphine left, Sora had a chance to interact with Asira one on one and their conversation was even more dramatic, but this is a nice stopping half-way point to post what I've finished so far.