If your boat ever got caught in such a vortex, the key to survival was figuring out how long you had until you suffered the same fate. Currents of human beings could rush too fast into a single pool without an escape, smashing chunks of ice and flotsam to bits. People did too, when their livelihoods depended on it.Īnd the flow wasn’t always peaceful. Kavik, on the other hand, knew vital locations could shift great distances without warning. In the continuing wake of the Platinum Affair, many of the new arrivals to Bin-Er seemed caught off guard by the city’s explosive growth even though they were part of it themselves, swept along by change. Middlers often had difficulty understanding how quickly one place’s fortunes could rise at the expense of another’s.
Read a full chapter of The Dawn of Yangchen below, as Kavik tests his waterbending abilities, and Yangchen interferes. But for Yangchen to chart her course as a singularly powerful Avatar, she must learn to rely on her own wisdom above all else. As Yangchen and Kavik seek to thwart the shangs’ plan, their unlikely friendship deepens. To extract themselves from his influence, the shangs have one solution in mind: a mysterious weapon of mass destruction that would place power squarely in their hands. Bin-Er is a city ruled by corrupt shang merchants who have become resentful of the mercurial Earth King and his whims. When Yangchen travels to Bin-Er in the Earth Kingdom on political business, a chance encounter with an informant named Kavik leads to a wary partnership. In an era where loyalty is bought rather than earned, she has little reason to trust her counsel. Yangchen’s inexperience may prove to be her greatest asset… Plagued by the voices of Avatars before her for as long as she can remember, Yangchen has not yet earned the respect felt for Avatar Szeto, her predecessor. Here’s Abrams Books’ summary of the action: The latest book in the series, The Dawn of Yangchen, begins a new arc with a new Avatar - and a waterbender who opens the book with a daring heist. Yee’s Chronicles of the Avatar novels have been filling in of the backstory of a few of those past Avatars, starting with Kyoshi, the founder of the Kyoshi Warriors.
While the show’s creators have been planning a sequel movie about Aang and his friends as adults, F.C.
In Nickelodeon’s animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, protagonist Aang, a young Avatar facing his world’s greatest crisis, is frequently struck with a vision of a long chain of past Avatars who rose to power before him.