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