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An archive of all the encyclopedia entries on the original (now defunct) official Nickelodeon 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' website, word-for-word, with the original art.

The index post has been updated so that all its links are functional again. Apparently, Tumblr decided to change the way it handles spaces in tags, breaking all the links created before the change. As someone who works in internet-focused IT, I am existentially horrified.

If anyone finds any other broken links, feel free to let me know by Ask or Chat. Thanks!

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¿Con quién tiene a sus hijas Toph?

Anonymous

The LoK cartoon revealed that Lin's father is named Kanto, but that's all we were told, and we don't know anything about Suying's dad. I haven't been following the LoK comics, so if they provided more information, I'm not aware of it.

Anonymous

Per her entry, she's "one of the best Earthbenders in the world" and "no Earthbender can beat her."

That's really as much as can be said on the subject, as Avatar doesn't do power levels. Maybe once we get the mobile game, there will be some stats that people can argue with each other about.

What do you know about the city guards of Ba Sing Se? Not the Dai Li or Royal Guard, but the ones we see in Pao's teahouse, as well as Suki wearing

Anonymous

Not a lot! The Avatar Wiki doesn't even have an entry for them.

My guess would be that they're a 'civilian' force of some kind, a non-military police force, subordinate to the bureaucracy, as Suki noted that "the crabby lady" made her and the other Kyoshi Warriors wear the uniforms. This is in contrast to the Dai Li, which I would also call a civilian force, but they seemingly answering only to their own organization, with Long Feng on top. (Fun fact: Government institutions that operate completely without oversight often lead to major trouble for that government. AtLA definitely got that right.)

The way Suki seems to so casually join up and then walk away again is what makes me think they're civilian. As far as I can recall, it's the only such organization in Aang's time, with all the other cities either using military guards (even the Fire Nation's domestic forces seem to be thoroughly military) or not seeming to have any formal enforcement organizations.

Considering Ba Sing Se's size and its love of rules, it makes sense that the city would want to organize an enforcement group separate from the military. Policing the city is a completely different skill set from being a soldier, and I'd think a lot of police would be necessary, so it doesn't make add up to spend all the resources required to train and outfit them all as soldiers in addition to the bureaucracy's rule-enforcers. Plus, Ba Sing Se likes to pretend to be all genteel and peaceful, so having soldiers walking around would undermine that. And judging from the mugger who tried to go after Iroh with such a terrible stance, they don't typically have to deal with fighters of any quality, rare exceptions like Jet notwithstanding.

But this is all pretty speculative on my part based on just a few clues.

Hi, I recently found your blog and I am amazed ! I want to know does the Avatar world follow the same timing like our earth or do they have different timings ( like years, months, days, hours) ?

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Yup, it seems to be pretty much the same. We all know how Katara talks about Aang disappearing for a hundred years, and there's similar confirmation of pretty much everything else in various bits of dialogue. The only thing that's probably different are the names of the months (I think it would be weird to have months in the Avatar world named after Roman emperors), and the way of counting years. However, I do think it's safe to assume that months and years have approximately the same number of days as in our world, as the characters' appearances reflect their given ages, so it's at least proportional.

For confirmations of the time-keeping units, here's stuff spoken directly by the characters in the original cartoon…

Hours: The clock-candle invented by The Mechanist from 'The Northern Air Temple'

Mechanist: Four flashes. So it's exactly four hours past midday- or, as I call it, four o'candle.

Months/Weeks: Joo Dee's delay in getting the gAang to the Earth King

Joo Dee: More good news, your request for an audience with the Earth King is being processed, and should be put through in about a month. Much more quickly than usual.

Sokka: A month!

Joo Dee: Six to eight weeks, actually.

Days/Minutes: Sokka's schedule from 'The Painted Lady'

Sokka: Our detour into town today has completely thrown off our schedule. It's gonna take some serious finagling to get us back on track.

Toph: Finagle away, oh schedule master.

Sokka: Well, for starters, it looks like we'll need to wake up forty-three minutes earlier every day.

Katara: Forty-three minutes?

Sokka: Look, we only have a few weeks to get to the Fire Lord in time for the invasion and the eclipse - which, by the way, only lasts for eight minutes. And we just lost a whole day. So if we want to make up the time and stay on schedule, we have to wake up early!

Seconds: The time-keeping device from 'The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse"

Sokka: Only thirty seconds until the total eclipse.

Seasons: Iroh's song from 'The Waterbending Master'

Winter, Spring,
Summer and Fall.
Winter, Spring,
Summer and Fall.
Four seasons,
Four loves.
Four seasons,
For love.

Anonymous

I know what I'm supposed to say, but my first experience with Avatar was actually stumbling into the middle of 'Lake Laogai,' and I had no idea who any of the characters were, but Jet's death scene was so good and elegant that I was immediately hooked into the franchise.

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Do you think it's possible for an Avatar to be reincarnated as a sandbender or a member of the Foggy Swamp tribe?

I'd imagine the sandbender tribes are considered just as much Earth Kingdom as anyone else in terms of the cycle, since they live IN the Earth Kingdom proper, and I don't recall anything in the lore that says otherwise.

In regards to the Foggy Swamp, I also don't recall any explicit mention of how the cycle switches between the Northern and Southern Water Tribes (unless I'm missing something lol), so I feel like that's at least possible too since the tribe are just distant ancestors of the Water Tribes anyway.

Yes, I agree! There's nothing in the lore about the Avatar reincarnation cycle being tied directly to the nations themselves or the main governments ruling them, at least not that can't be waved away as the characters using shorthand in their dialogue. Sandbenders and Swampbenders are just Earthbenders and Waterbenders using unusual styles, so the Avatar Spirit could certainly be born within those cultures, based on all the explanations we've gotten for how it works.

I was actually kind of disappointed, when LoK was first announced, that we weren't getting a Swampbender Avatar, as the idea had been kicking around the fringes of the fandom for a little bit. What is interesting, though, is how LoK established an entire new nation containing Benders of all kinds. When the Avatar is eventually reincarnated in the United Repulic, that will likely upset the political balance and create some new storytelling opportunities.

Where do Aang, Katara, and Sokka live after the war and before the founding of Republic City??

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We don't have much info on the time between AtLA and LoK, but the comics have started expanding on the gAang's lives in that period, at least for the first few years. (I wonder if the new Avatar Studios projects are going to show more of it?) They've shown that Aang, Katara, and Sokka spend at least the first year or so pretty much being nomads, moving around the world helping with the reconstruction and solving any problems that pop up. The timeline is vague, but the rest of the comics seem to cover another year or so, showing the same state of affairs for the core gAang.

The latest story in the AtLA timeline, the 'Imbalance' arc of the comics, however, gives us a bit of a hint to the answer. A boom-town started by Toph's father after the war called "Cranefish Town" is revealed to be what will eventually become Republic City. About two years after the end of the war, the gAang visit to help with a conflict between Benders and NonBenders, and after the immediate threat is handled, Aang winds up deciding that he's going to spend more time there to help it achieve peace and balance. That seems to imply that he's going to make it his home base and set up a residence of some kind, and the comic even features him visiting what will become Air Temple Island.

So the answer (so far) seems to be, "They kicked around the world for a few years before settling in the existing town that will become Republic City."

If you have access to the Avatar Extras, could you screen shot the text bubble that says something along the lines of "Ozai id the Most Powerful Firebender. Pierod." I believe it's in 3x11.

When doing Vs debates, many people don't buy the fanmade wiki's info without solid proof.

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Sadly, I don't have access to the Extras. You're right about the wording, though; it's #60 on the list the Wiki has, for whatever that's worth to you.

I can't say I have much interest in Vs debates, and I've spoken before about how I don't really care what's "canon." If people are getting worked up in Vs debate about whether some weird commentary thing actually called Ozai the most "powerful" Firebender (whatever that actually means), then it seems to me that everyone needs to chill a little and remember that these types of things are supposed to be fun.

I mean, if you even have a screenshot, would these people accept it or complain about it probably being edited?

Do sandbenders hate earthbenders? Do they have beef with each other?

Anonymous

There's nothing in the lore to suggest there's any general rivalry, no. The three named Sandbenders we see would probably all have different reactions to regular Earthbenders.

"Fire Nation Man" is actually a Sandbender from the Si Wong Desert, and he doesn't seem to have any problem performing alongside Earthbenders.

The thief Ghashiun isn't described or seen as having any enmity for Earthbenders especially, but he strands people in the desert by stealing from them, and his write-up in the lore indicates that the death of his mother has left him with unresolved issues that give him a bad attitude. So if he encounters any Earthbenders, he might start trouble with them for stupid reasons.

His father, Shao-Mo, seemed to be a reasonable person in the cartoon when he encountered the gAang. However, his writeup indicates that he gets angry when people are racist to him for being a Sandbender, so if Earthbenders showed that kind of attitude, I could see him getting a dim view of them in turn as a whole.

Is there any details in the current lore about whether or not the other Avatar tests work with finding an Avatar not being born in their respective nation, or if there's any taboos regarding searching for the next Avatar born outside of your element? Because it just occurred to me that given Aang disappeared before he turned 16, and people would've assumed Aang was either already dead or not yet found before he turned 16, then does that mean there's a possibility that some Earth Kingdom sages performed a geomancy searches there out of curiosity or hope, saw they were pointing in the direction of the South Pole and had a "wait that can't be right" moment?

Anonymous

You really want to read 'Rise of Kyoshi.'

And yes, the tests do seem to work on any Avatar, and it's likely that every sage in the world was using them to try to find Aang. Whether they just didn't get a result they expected, or Aang was so out of commission that none of the locators could work, is an open question.

Perhaps that's why the Fire Nation was so keen to capture Southern Waterbenders alive. Divination methods kept saying that the Avatar was in the south, but none of their capture trips ever changed the outcome.

Do we know how the other nations discovered the Avatar? I know Air had toys to have the avatar identify, Earth used geomancy(?) But what about Water or Fire?

We do NOT. The cartoon gave us the Air method and the Kyoshi novels (highly recommended, btw) revealed the geomancy process. It works exactly like it says on the wiki.

To get into the realm of speculation, I've read about a number of classical divination methods that make use of fire or water. Interestingly, Aunt Wu's method of throwing bones in a fire one of the more prominent, and perhaps the cracks in the bones could mimic the landscape of the Avatar's location or something like that. (I always suspected that Aunt Wu had Fire Nation ties!) For water, it seems to be about reading ripples, which seems even more tenuous for finding someone. But I'm sure a clever storyteller can do something with those ideas.

I'm just glad everyone is ignoring the "elements do a little dance by themselves around the Avatar" scene from the movie that doesn't exist.