I'm asking because I'm trying to figure out which of the avatars appeared in Lok and Gun, although that's unlikely because even though I haven't read the books yet, I know a few things like for example "Yangchen wasn't afraid of spirits, one more of his past lives he had"(even this past life can be wan)

Especially the Daofei and their leader who committed various atrocities for the sole purpose of drawing Kyoshi's attention and to have their leader a chance to face Kyoshi who murdered his father. Based on this detail alone I imagined this daofei group at least in the Late Kyoshi era is similar to Captain John Joel Glanton's gang from Blood Meridian.

It would be interested if The Daofei leader or at his characterization is similar to Baldur from God of War 2018, Vaas from Far Cry 3, The Joker from DC comics especially Health Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight, Marchion Ro from Star Wars: The High Republic, Dementus from Furiosa, Feyd Rautha Harkonnen from Dune Part 2, (The Austin Butler version.) Dante Reyes from Fast and Furious 9 ( Jason Momoa's character.), Maelys Blackfyre The Last Male Blackfyre from A Song of Ice and Fire, Raul Menendez from Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, and of course John Joel Glanton himself from Blood Meridian.

 Essentially you have an Unhinged sadistic cruel insane monster that actually deserved to die by Kyoshi but at the same time there is so tragedy behind his character. Ultimately I feel that the Daofei leader should be The Joker to Avatar Kyoshi's Batman. 

 The Reason why I bring up Maelys Blackfyre is because I would to see or give insight of the Daofei in this period or at least give us a glimpse of the Daofei in this era comparing to the Daofei of Old from Early Kyoshi era like the Flying Opera Company from the Kyoshi Duology.

The Daofei in this era or at least the group that this guy leads are a pale shadow of themselves and their number and power dwindled. Basically the Daofei of the Late Kyoshi era or at least the Daofei gang that Kyoshi and Disha encounter represented a deeply degenerate iteration of the criminal organization, having abandoned the remnants of the daofei's once-sophisticated codes and traditions like how House Blackfyre went from honourable respectable from Dameon's time to murdering each other in Maely's time so I figured maybe the Daofei in the Late Kyoshi era had undergone a degradation by the time of Daofei leader and his father's time?

So I decided to make a detailed timeline of all the five books of the chronicles of the Avatar starting with the Rise of Kyoshi but I need help to make a timeline breakdown for each chapter besides the first one since it is set 9 years earlier? besides that it would be a good sense of the time jumps within the book when it come to travel or how many days since chapter 2 of Rise of Kyoshi?

Obviously spoilers ahead.

So I finished the new Avatar book a couple of days ago and holy hell, it was amazing.

But one thing I just cannot be silent about is the way Sozin is depicted. I mean, we all know what Sozin will do and that he will become a genocidal maniac but damn was he unsympathetic in this story.

He manipulates his best friend Roku, almost kills him and his future wife in a false flag assassin, attacks sandbenders who were offering hospitality to him and constantly shows racism towards other nations. He is also pretty nasty towards his subordinates. Apparently Azula had an ancestor who beat her in the “be nasty to your friends and allies“ department.

At the end of the book, we don’t get the tragedy of an idealistic prince who felled to his darker impulses, we have an already selfish asshole who was barely kept in check by his best friend. Sozin doesn’t get any sympathy, he is depicted as an bastard through and through.

And I like it. Not every villain needs to be justified. Sozin as the guy who committed genocide does not deserve to get a pass.

The only relatable moment he has is ironically in the beginning where he internally makes it clear how much he hates parties. Same, Sozin, same.

In the RPG corebook it is implied that the Yuyan Archers were a recent thing in Fire Nation when after the coronation of Fire Lord Sozin, a woman known as Uzuku Yuyan was considered one of the most legendary archers and markswomen ever to have lived. She transformed archery into an artform, and received patronage from nobles across the Fire Nation who wanted to learn her techniques. Uzuku began to face pressure to share her incredible skills with the Fire Nation. Some wanted her as one of the nation's deadliest agents, while others wanted her to teach new archers her skills.

But in The Yangchen Duology which takes long before Roku's era there is a character named Jujinta became a companion to Avatar Yangchen, who had been forbidden from using his bow. While fighting alongside Kavik in a warehouse in Jonduri, he declared that ''a Yuyan does not miss.''

So either it is similar to the Spartans or a better comparison the Cossacks where the Yuyan Archers while an elite group of archers are also an ethic group within the Fire Nation making them standout within the Fire Nation society such as the Fire Lord and The Noble Clans with Uzuku being simply a member who mark the transition for the Yuyan from a group of ethic nomads like the Sythians to the elite unit we see in the Blue Spirit?

That said they do allow new recruits outside of pure blooded members like with the Mandalorians from Star Wars as we know that Vachir (the Yuyan archer from the Rough Rhinos.) was from the eastern Fire Islands, where he was a student under Ms. Kwan the teacher from the Fire Nation school with Aang in book 3.

ATLA content has been dry and what’s coming next? Also when are they announcing new shows?

It may be a bit of a dumb question, but as the title says, which exactly are the outer fire islands? Do they refer to the eastern fire islands that form a chain towards the earth continent? Or are they small islands to the west where the ocean presumably opens up? I'm asking because I'm writing a fanfic where one of the main characters is the heir of the fire nation clan that replaces the Saowon clan in their holding of the easternmost fire islands. They're placed in power by the fire lord after the Saowon clan rebel sometime between Kyoshi's and Aang's time, and this new clan agrees to help the fire lord in squashing the rebellion. I wanted to know if I could relate this rebellion to the Outer Islands Rebellion, cause it would be pretty convenient. Thanks in advance!

I read a lot of interviews, maybe transcripts too, but also I took like a year long break from the atla franchise's fandom. So maybe I totally imagined this but I swear FC Yee was once asked about the Rangshi's relationship post-books and he said something a long the lines of "I'd like to think they lived a long life together"

However I've been searching for said interview, and I mean search because I looked through 3 q&a's all the trivia under all the novels and Kyoshi + rangi's character wikis + the rpg book but the only trace I find is uncited trivia under the rangshi shipping wiki.

I'm trying to draw angsty fanart and I need that motivation cause the fact that Kyoshi long outlives her haunts me everyday. I NEED THE WORDS.

We know that the clans such as the Saowon Clan have lesser branch houses in their domain. Several clan leaders held titles of nobility, such as duke, and controlled their fiefdoms from castles.

Assuming if the title/rank system is similar or modelled after the  British peerage (which also have the titles of Duke and Earl.) I wonder what would the other titles/ranks be like (Such as Marquess, Viscount, and Baron.) in terms of function/operated or how they be like compared to our real life history?

I found a copy of Legacy of Yangchen in orange at Target, this was around the time or right before Roku’s release. Once I got my copy of Roku’s book I realized that they’re the exact same color! I think it’s some sort of factory error. It’s the only one I’ve seen like that. Left to right: standard color of Yangchen #2, special colored copy of Yangchen #2, standard color of Roku #1

Yesterday, I was research Lovecraft mythology and although it is never stated officially the gods from lovecraft or the Cthulhu mythos are generally placed into four basic categories: OuterGods/Other Gods, Elder Gods, Great Old Ones, and Great Ones. and this got me thinking about the Spirits.

For an example we know in the Kyoshi novels that Father Glowworm is far older then Koh who is the oldest spirit to remembered to see the spirits of Tui and La. Then you have Koh's mother The Mother of Faces, Raava and Vaatu being from the Beginning of Time. Then you have the minor spirits that we see in Korra and Hei Bai.

As far as Lady Tienhai and General Old Iron I could see them being the same age or category as Koh if we assumed that Old Iron is just that Old.

Then in the New Roku Novel you have the two spirits that the Lambak Clan name Yungib.

Granted while I'm talking hierarchy as in the usual meaning I think It could have being a term of which one is older like Father Glowworm for an example being older then Koh who witnessed the moon and ocean spirit.

Like how would the characters like say the members of Yangchen Network, Team Kurruk, The Flying Opera Company. and even characters who died tragically such as Jetsun, Nujian, Lek, and Malaya.

As well as the villains like Chaisee, Henshe, The rest of the Zongdus, Jianzhu, Tagaka, Xu Ping An, Huazo, Chaejin, Yun, and Ulo. Like how would these characters be remembered historically?

Is it something like this

''66  B.G.

1. Ribay, Randy (author). (July 23, 2024).  ‘’Prologue’’.  The Reckoning of Roku. Amulet Books.

3 months after Roku leaves for his airbending training.

1. Ribay, Randy (author).  (July 23, 2024).  Chapter One, ‘’A Spirit of No Nation’’.  The Reckoning of Roku.  Amulet Books   to  Ribay, Randy  (author).  (July  23,  2024.)  Chapter Fifty-Two,  ‘’Something Meaningful’’.   The Reckoning of Roku.  Amulet Books.

A few weeks after chapter 52

1. Ribay, Randy (author).  (July  23,  2024).  Chapter Fifty-Three,  ‘’Every-Shifting Currents.’’  The Reckoning of Roku.  Amulet Books.

65  B.G.

1. Ribay, Randy (author).  (July 23, 2024).  Epilogue. The Reckoning of Roku. Amulet Books.''

Now there are some issues with this framework for an example by the time of Sozin arrival on Lambak Island how long did the Western Kingdom trading company were on the island was it shortly or two days before Sozin and his team arrive. then you have Ta Min arriving at The Southern Air Temple a week after Sozin's first step on Lambak Island.

Interesting in the Malaya chapters it states that she first encounter with the Western Kingdom trading company was two moons ago and later when Yuming (who is the name of the mother that comes with the six earthbenders along with her daughter.) states that they were sailing around the South Sea to find Lambak Island for months?

1. The Sei’naka Clan  (Members included  Rangi and Hei-Ran.)
2. The Saowon Clan   (Members included  Huazo and her son Chaejin.)
3. The Keohso  Clan   (Members included  Sulan the mother of Zoryu and Sanshur Keohso.)
4. The Inta  Clan  and the Lahaisin Clan  (Not sure about the exact source for the other two clans but my friend says it is from The Shadow of Kyoshi which he said states that the Inta clan controls trade with the Earth Kingdom, meanwhile the Lahaisins are in charge of the passage of many sea routes. By the 3rd Century BG, both families fell in disrepair because of the Fifth Nation and the sacking of their islands and fortresses by Fire Lord Zoryu.
5. The Yuyan  Clan  (Although never named directly in the Yangchen Duology but it is implied given Jujinta declared that "a Yuyan does not miss" Members included  Jujinta.)
6. Roku’s  Clan   (Name Unknown but members included his parents and grandparents.)
7. Ta Min’s Clan  (Name Unknown but members included her siblings and father.)
8. The Lambak Clan   (Members included Chief Ulo,  Malaya,  and Amihan.)

1. The names of Roku’s parents his grandparents (which of his parents is their child.) as well as the name of his clan?

2. The names of Ta Min’s clan, the exact number/gender/names of her siblings, and the name of her father?

3. Does Queen Guo Xun of omashu have a family of her own if so does she at this point have grandchildren or great grandchildren.

4. The exact time of when did the Night of Silenced Sages happened was it before the novels, or it takes during the three month gap of the first novel or during the one year between both books.

Especially the latter since we know that Jianzhu and Yun went to the Fire Nation to end the first phase of the Camellia-Peony War after Fire Lord Chaeryu and Yun becoming friends with Zoryu even sharing with tea likely introducing Earth Kingdom tea to the royal family that we later see with Iroh?

Here what the wiki says about what happened after Shadow:

"Maintaining order in Ba Sing Se

Kyoshi returned to Ba Sing Se soon after the Camellia-Peony War, and over the next two years, she helped establish a task force which swiftly dealt with the most dangerous daofei and violent criminals in the Lower Ring of Ba Sing Se. Kyoshi received support from Ambassador Quin of the Fire Nation in this endeavor, and the ambassador convinced the then-ruling Earth King, Yi Ming, to officially adopt the task force. Kyoshi was needed elsewhere, and left Rangi in Ba Sing Se to keep an eye on things, while the task force was given over to the control of the Earth King. Soon after Kyoshi left, the Earth King began to use the task force to threaten criminals who stood in the way of his power. When Ambassador Quin's children were kidnapped, Rangi saw the turmoil growing in the city, and worried that things would turn violent, and left the city to inform Kyoshi of the situation.[54][55]

During this time, Kyoshi was contacted by Wan Shi Tong, a spirit who kept a vast library of knowledge. The spirit's Knowledge Seekers informed the Avatar that a daofei group known as the Paper Knives had stolen a tome of great value and importance. Kyoshi did not fully understand what was in the book, and she had no time to rescue a book when she was dealing with people and their lives. She ultimately set the task to recover the book to her friends and allies, who turned to their contacts.[56].

Establishing the Kyoshi Warriors Eventually, Kyoshi mastered the Avatar State, becoming feared and effective while restoring order in the world.[57] She managed to maintain a "tense equilibrium" between the four nations.[58]

Kyoshi also did not hide her bisexuality and attempted to effect greater tolerance for non-heterosexual people in the notoriously conservative Earth Kingdom. Nevertheless, these efforts had little impact.[59] When she visited the ports of her adopted homeland peninsula, she constantly had to put carousing men in their place after they caused trouble to the female villagers. Eventually, she decided to train the women in defensive combat so that they could defend themselves. These women later formed the first band of the Kyoshi Warriors.[60]

Stopping Chin the Conqueror

During Kyoshi's life, the 46th Earth King's rule was unpopular among the populace of the Earth Kingdom. Using this to his advantage, a warlord named Chin launched a war to conquer the continent. He was successful until he reached the peninsula where Kyoshi lived, finding the Avatar waiting for him. Standing before his army, Chin demanded their immediate surrender, and Kyoshi warned him that she would not sit idly by as he took her home. When he refused to back down and assumed a challenging earthbending stance, she unfurled one of her fans and fired a powerful air blast at him, leaving the humiliated warlord down to his underwear. Kyoshi subsequently entered the Avatar State and separated the peninsula from the mainland by using a combination of earthbending, lavabending, and airbending, forming Kyoshi Island and thereby protecting her homeland from subsequent threats. An indignant Chin was left standing on the edge of the newly-formed cliff, which began to crumble beneath his feet and, as he refused to budge from his unstable position, caused him to fall into the sea and drown, ending his campaign and ushering the world into a great era of peace. Though Kyoshi was only tangentially responsible for Chin's death, she herself saw little difference between causing the circumstances of his death and actually striking him down, and would claim to have personally killed him for generations afterward.

Because of Kyoshi's act, the people of Chin Village on the mainland founded Avatar Day to vilify Kyoshi, and all succeeding Avatars, for the death of their leader. The people of Kyoshi Island, meanwhile, founded "Kyoshi Day" on the same day as Avatar Day, to honor her creation of the island and the restoration of peace to their village.[3] The same year, they erected a large totem, topped with a statue of Kyoshi to honor her.[61]

History with the 46th Earth King

Sometime after her final confrontation with Chin, Kyoshi was summoned to Ba Sing Se upon the request of the Earth King, since his unpopular rule had led to a peasant uprising in the city. By the time Kyoshi reached the city, the peasants had already destroyed everything that represented the "old government", including ancient and valuable artifacts that held historical and cultural importance. The King demanded that she stop the uprising by whatever means necessary. However, Kyoshi staunchly refused, stating that it would not be right for her to do so. Incensed by her defiance, the Earth King ordered his guards to arrest her. However, the King was left cowering on his throne as Kyoshi dispatched his guards in a single move and admonished him in turn for daring to defy the Avatar. Held at the point of Kyoshi's war fan, the quivering monarch agreed to a compromise: the Earth King would give the peasants a voice in his ruling, while Kyoshi, in turn, agreed to protect Ba Sing Se's cultural heritage from further desecration. She proceeded to train an elite platoon of earthbenders called the Dai Li, though their subsequent corruption weighed heavily on Kyoshi in her afterlife.[13]

Later life

In her later life, the Earth Kingdom entered an age of peace and prosperity. Kyoshi helped implement various bureaucratic policies to aid the poorest of the kingdom, and strengthened ties between the fifty-five states of the Earth Kingdom. The constitution that she drafted with the 46th Earth King was upheld by her for nearly two hundred years until her death. The Earth Sages that had once been against her began to seek redemption after seeing their order embarrassed and diminished in status, and they began to regain the people's trust they had lost, embracing their true role as wise advisors and academics. Many young people in the Earth Kingdom looked to Kyoshi and idolized her, such as princess Guo Xun of Omashu, who later became the city's queen.[62]

Kyoshi had a series of companions throughout her life. Her final airbender companion was a nun from the Eastern Air Temple named Disha, who joined her when Kyoshi was already more than two centuries old. Their last mission together was in 84 BG, pursuing a daofei leader in the Earth Kingdom. Kyoshi and Disha learned that the outlaw was the son of a man the Avatar had executed many years prior, and that he had his band commit various atrocities for the sole purpose of drawing Kyoshi's attention and to have the chance to face her himself.

After they challenged the daofei, Disha told Kyoshi how the man's actions had been shaped by her own decision to kill his father years ago. The nun believed that too many of the problems they had faced had become the direct consequences of the Avatar's earlier actions, and that she feared what Kyoshi might become if she lived another century. Kyoshi deeply misliked her companion's advice, and Disha chose to part ways with the Avatar as a result. When Disha told the Council of Elders about her concerns, word spread, and soon no airbender master was willing to assist Kyoshi any more.[63]

Death

Kyoshi died in the year 82 BG at the age of 230, two years after she and Disha parted ways.[63] She was the oldest confirmed Avatar and human in history,[7] though some other individuals were rumored to have lived even longer.[64] It is possible that Kyoshi learned the secret of immortality from her spiritual teacher, Lao Ge.[14] Her daughter Koko succeeded her as the leader of Kyoshi Island,[11] and she reincarnated as the Fire Nation noble, Roku.

While news of Kyoshi's passing would spread across the world, no one was sure how death had actually managed to catch up with the Avatar, not even her close companions. Sister Disha presumed that Kyoshi eventually came to believe Disha may have known her better than she knew herself, and simply "let go", choosing to finally end her immortality and let the Avatar Cycle continue.[63]"

Now that "The Reckoning of Roku" had been released for a couple months now, I thought that it would be fun to give some headcanons from the relationship of Avatar Kyoshi and Sister Disha:

• Disha was originally brought on as a diplomat and negotiator, but have also proven to be a powerful ally in combat
• Alongside Disha, Kyoshi's team at that team also consist of a nonbender weaponist from the Fire Nation and a Southern Tribe waterbender
• During the beginning years of their companionship, Kyoshi would often confide in Disha for more sensitive matters
• Disha was much more defensive of Kyoshi during the earlier years, often stating the world needed the Avatar that wasn't going to push back
• Though as the years gone on, Disha began to see how Kyoshi's from of justice was creating more problems than solving
• Kyoshi and Disha both grew more distant during the later years, with Disha feeling Kyoshi was too stubborn to change approaches and Kyoshi feeling that Disha was becoming more judgmental of her role
• Despite the growing distance, the two still relied on each other for aid whenever it was called on
• Kyoshi was both angry and devastated when Disha ended their companionship - still seeing Disha as a friend despite everything that happened
• Despite their ended companionship, Disha was incredibly sadden by Kyoshi's death and delivery a very poignant eulogy at her funeral

These are just my headcanons for what their relationship could've been like. All of this could be invalidated if it gets expanded on in "The Awakening of Roku," but for now I am content with this. Feel free to post if you have any of your own, I would love to hear about it.

Not sure if annotating is the way for these type of books so I'm tryna hear what you guys think

The majority of info we have on the split is from really old and canonically-iffy material like the Ultimate Pocket Guide, The Lost Scrolls books, and The Old nickolden.website so seeing it 'recanonized' and expanded would be nice.

we could learn new details like who were the major figures such as the Chief of the North and the leader of the movement that later would technically be The 1st Southern Chieftain. What was the moment in the civil unrest in the North that make a large group of warriors, waterbenders, and healers deciding to leave the north altogether.

I hope that the journey to find a new hope is similar to Moses's Exodus in terms as an epic and more similarities with Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Odyssey where for The Aeneid could definitely be an inspiration...a charismatic leader taking their entire people out of a shattered land to permanently settle far, far, away. The perils and length of the voyage does recall, in some respects, the Odyssey.

I always assumed that the Foggy Swamp Tribe were part of the group that become the Southern Water Tribe when they still wandering to find a home some of them got lost and settle in the Foggy Swamp.

Maybe during the Journey It is where The Wandering group who later become the Southern Water Tribe is where they first discover Jasmine Island which resulted in regular trade with the locals of the island and the much later Southern Water Tribe.

If you're against furries it's fine, but I'm seeking other casual people's attention as to know their opinion in what type of fursona Kyoshi would have if it were to be made in an anthropomorphic style instead of them being presented as humans.

I assume roku is gonna have a second book at some point but is anything confirmed?