A/N: Howdy everyone! Welcome to my first story on FF! I've been working on the concept of this story for awhile now, and I've finally figured out how I'm going to do it. My only problem is I have no one to share it with! And that's where you guys come along! Please feel free to read and review and comment on this story, as well as give me any ideas you may have for it! I love getting feedback and new ideas!
The first two "chapters" are long. I'm sorry, but it had to be done. In order to prepare you for the world you're going to be thrown into if you decide to delve into the devious machination that I call Book One: Empire, I wrote this nice prologue! If you want to really enjoy it, read it in Katara's voice.
Enough of me, I always blabber on for too long! Enjoy!
EDIT (May 29th, 2016): Wow, it's been a long time! I am nothing but eternally grateful with the people that still want to read this after it has gone without updates for so long. One person in particular, whom I wish I could thank by name, commented and said that they wished that I would update. This nameless guest inspired me to continue my work. Raise a glass, if you are able, to them, and join me in thanking all of you that have given me support over the years.
As I move forward with continuing Empire, I plan to make revisions to what I currently have. I recommend that people reread the entirety of the story to catch up, but please be aware that there may be some things that have been removed for various reasons (such as relevance and continuity;) however, I promise that I will not add anything unless it is mechanically/grammatically required. At the end of this prologue is a timeline of events leading up to Empire. Please read it.
May your eyes stay strong, and your pencils stay stronger!
AugustusAurelius
Book One: Empire
One day, the world began to end.
Long ago, the Four Nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Only the Avatar, master of all four Elements, could stop them. And he did. The Avatar helped rebuild the damage done over the long Hundred Year War for the next fifty years of his life.
After the death of Avatar Aang, the Avatar Cycle continued. The new Avatar was a Waterbender named Korra. She fought many battles in her lifetime in the name of the new Republic City. She became a symbol of harmony and peace for the entire world.
But years passed, and the Avatar grew old. Fire Lady Kazra, daughter of the great Fire Lord Zuko, died of mysterious circumstances after forty years of her peaceful reign. Eager and suspiciously prepared, her eldest son Ursan took the throne.
Ursan was a ruthless and brilliant Fire Lord, and he began to plot with the Earth King Taishua. Over a span of ten years, the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdoms began to amass their armies in key offensive positions.
Avatar Korra tried in her old age to convince the Fire and Earth Nations to put down their weapons and return to their ancestral homes, but neither Nation listened.
The Water Tribes sent emissary after emissary to the Air Nomads, pleading for assistance in the coming battles. It took two years of pleading and begging, but the still-growing Airbender population agreed to join forces against the impending Fire and Earth Nation attack.
With thirty years before the death of Avatar Korra, a strange thing had begun to happen. It was similar to the sudden Airbending development in her early years. This time, people began to glow and could shoot light out of their bodies.
They named it Energybending, in honor of Avatar Aang and his defeat of the Fire Lord Ozai with the powerful technique. However, the Energybenders cared nothing for the Avatar. They cared nothing for balance. They rented themselves out as elite mercenaries and bodyguards and tacticians to the highest bidders.
Years passed, and vicious unofficial skirmishes began to break out along every Nation's border. After the death of Avatar Korra, the war broke out in full. One hundred and forty five years after the end of the Hundred Year War, the Four Nations War began.
With the death of Avatar Korra, the world immediately began searching for the new Earthbending Avatar. It was a race to see who could find and claim the child for their cause first.
One day, the world began to end. And it's still ending.
Timeline of Events Prior to Book One: Empire
Thank you to the Avatar Wikia for providing information leading up to 174 AG.
BG: Before Air Nomad Genocide
AG: After Air Nomad Genocide
12 BG
Avatar Roku of the Fire Nation is killed
Avatar Aang of the Air Nomads is born
0 AG
Avatar Aang freezes himself in ice using the Avatar State
The Fire Nation slaughters the entire Air Nomad population, sans Avatar Aang, using Sozin's Comet
The Hundred Year War begins
99 AG
Avatar Aang is awakened from one hundred years of suspended animation by Katara and Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe
100 AG
Avatar Aang defeats Phoenix King Ozai, declaring an end to the Hundred Year War
Fire Lord Zuko ascends the Royal Throne
110 AG
Avatar Aang and Prince Zuko establish the United Republic of Nations, and declare and found the capital as Republic City
153 AG
Avatar Aang of the Air Nomads dies
Avatar Korra of the Water Tribe is born
167 AG
Fire Lord Zuko passes the title of Fire Lord to his daughter, Izumi
170 AG
Avatar Korra goes to Republic City
The Equalist Revolution is put down
171 AG
Asami Sato assumes control of Future Industries as CEO
Avatar Korra opens the Southern and Northern spirit portals
The Air Nomads are revitalized with the Airbending phenomenon
Earth Queen Hou-Ting is assassinated, throwing the Earth Kingdom into chaos
The Red Lotus Revolution is put down
Kuvira assembles an army to reunite the Earth Kingdom
174 AG
Kuvira's Earth Empire is defeated by Avatar Korra
A spirit portal opens in the heart of Republic City
Avatar Korra and Asami Sato enter a romantic relationship
The Earth Kingdom disbands into independent city-states
220 AG
Fire Lord Izumi dies of mysterious causes, Fire Lord Ursan ascends the throne
221 AG
Avatar Korra asks the spirits to return to the Spirit World so as to prevent them from interfering in any upcoming conflict, or from being targeted in such a conflict
Avatar Korra closes all three spirit portals
225 AG
Avatar Korra and Asami Sato adopt Shihon, a teenage nonbender
230 AG
The Energybending Phenomenon occurs, granting all nonbenders the ability to Energybend
235 AG
Asami Sato and Future Industries fund the creation of the Regia, a cultural center for all Energybenders, in the former location of the Republic City spirit portal
The Council of Masters is formed as a governing body for the Energybending peoples
The Earth Kingdom is reformed under the leadership of Earth King Taishua
237 AG
Asami Sato dies
Shihon assumes the title of CEO of Future Industries
Secret construction of Elysium, an underground city for Energybenders, begins underneath Republic City
The Water and Air Confederacy is created
The Water and Air Confederacy's special operations division, the Mist, is established
The United Fire and Earth Republic is established
245 AG
The First Assembly of Energybenders meets, resolving to take no position on any upcoming conflicts, and to allow Energybenders to take whichever side in the conflict they wish
Sato Experimental Sciences reports an explosion at one of their Si Wong Desert laboratories, but reports no concern to the general public
The Energy Guardians are established as a defense force for the Energybending peoples
249 AG
Terumi, a Waterbender, daughter of Pei-Hua and Trey-Li, is born
250 AG
Avatar Korra of the Water Tribe dies
Nise, an Earthbender, is born to Shihon and his Earth Kingdom bride
Aelius and Iulia Impera, Energybenders, are born to Master Antonius Impera and Octavia Impera, Energybenders
The Four Nations War begins
251 AG
Princess Cathra, a Firebender, of the Fire Nation is born
255 AG
Tengfei, an Airbender, of the Water and Air Confederacy is born
268 AG
Events of Book One: Empire
