It depicts the adventures of the next Avatar when she arrives in Republic City, a teeming metropolis which has grown up in a world without war, and what happens once chaos and imbalance threaten the world once again.Īvatar was made for children, but the generally high quality of the writing, the depth in which the themes are explored and the impressive animation have seen it gain a huge adult, global fanbase as well. The Legend of Korra is a sequel series to Avatar, set seventy years later. It depicts the reappearance of the long-missing Avatar and how he and his friends and allies overcome the threat of the power-hungry Fire Lord. The Avatar is also reincarnated at the moment of death, transferring from one kingdom to the next.Īvatar: The Last Airbender takes place in a medieval-ish world which is starting to develop into a more steampunk kind of setting. The Avatar is both a very powerful individual but also serves as a bridge between the Spirit World and the material world.

The sole exception is the Avatar, one person in the whole world who can use all four elements simultaneously. Almost all benders only use one element each and this will be determined by their bloodline and where they are born (firebenders don’t appear in the Water Tribes and Earthbenders are never born in the Fire Nation, for example). Magic-users in this world are called “benders” because they can bend the elements to their will. Four distinct ethnic-political groupings have emerged: the two Water Tribes (one at each pole), the Air Nomads (who dwell in and around four great mountainous Air Temples), the enormous Earth Kingdom and the technologically-advanced Fire Nation.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is an animated fantasy television series set in a fictional world where both magic and politics are divided by the four elements: Water, Air, Earth and Fire.

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