[ Give her a second to get comfortable on the avatar family couch. TIME FOR A STORY, GINBRO. ]
In my world, as looooooong as anyone can remember, there've always been four nations, just like there're four types of benders: the Air Nomads, the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom, and the Water Tribes! Before Republic City and the Harmony Restoration Movement, they were really, really separate. Keeping balance between them - and between the Spirit World and our world! - is something the Avatar has to do.
The Avatar is a spirit that is born into our world in a loooong cycle. Air, water, earth, fire. The spirit of the Avatar is reincarnated into the next nation in the cycle when it dies. The Avatar is the only person who can bend all four elements, not just one! ...They have to do four times the training, though, haha.
Anyway, over a hundred and seventy years ago, the Fire Nation was led by someone called Fire Lord Sozin. He decided that he wanted to unite all the nations under the Fire Nation, and he knew that the Avatar wasn't going to stand by and let him do that, 'cause stopping that sort of thing is kind of the whole job description! So when the old Avatar, a Fire Nation Avatar, died, he took his chance to prepare an attack. He wanted to wipe out the new Avatar before he had a chance to become a full Avatar, y'know?
Grandpa was twelve when that happened. He escaped the air nomad genocide - if he hadn't, I wouldn't be alive! - and eventually he managed to defeat Fire Lord Ozai.
...Y'see, he escaped by being trapped in ice for a century, sooooooooo time stuff.
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In my world, as looooooong as anyone can remember, there've always been four nations, just like there're four types of benders: the Air Nomads, the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom, and the Water Tribes! Before Republic City and the Harmony Restoration Movement, they were really, really separate. Keeping balance between them - and between the Spirit World and our world! - is something the Avatar has to do.
The Avatar is a spirit that is born into our world in a loooong cycle. Air, water, earth, fire. The spirit of the Avatar is reincarnated into the next nation in the cycle when it dies. The Avatar is the only person who can bend all four elements, not just one! ...They have to do four times the training, though, haha.
Anyway, over a hundred and seventy years ago, the Fire Nation was led by someone called Fire Lord Sozin. He decided that he wanted to unite all the nations under the Fire Nation, and he knew that the Avatar wasn't going to stand by and let him do that, 'cause stopping that sort of thing is kind of the whole job description! So when the old Avatar, a Fire Nation Avatar, died, he took his chance to prepare an attack. He wanted to wipe out the new Avatar before he had a chance to become a full Avatar, y'know?
Grandpa was twelve when that happened. He escaped the air nomad genocide - if he hadn't, I wouldn't be alive! - and eventually he managed to defeat Fire Lord Ozai.
...Y'see, he escaped by being trapped in ice for a century, sooooooooo time stuff.