Synopsis
The Inuit are of the peaceful kind; they stay to themselves. However, in 1500 B.C. the newest ruler of China, Lord Sozin, had taken the liberty of forcing all surrounding civilizations into an unwarranted battle. Most people say Lord Sozin underwent a spiritual possession of a past ancestor who was insane with power, and at that time it was believable.
Now, in the year 1000 B.C. when the battles have ended, but the tension still remains, the thought of Lord Sozin undergoing a possession is a funny thought. Lord Lu Ten, the great-grandson of Sozin, now rules over the Sozin Kingdom with his wife Lady June. Lu Ten's uncle, Prince Ozai, has tutored his children into believing that the rest of the world is useless, so when Lu Ten invites his cousin, Prince Zuko, on a hunt, the adventure soon turns into an all-out battle between the few nobles of the Sozin Kingdom and the Inuit people.
With Lu Ten soon injured into unconsciousness, Zuko is left in charge. The battle only lasts for a few days, but the Sozin Kingdom quickly comes to their victory, and what better prize than the beautiful and newly single Princess Katara.
The Inuit tribe was divided into two sister tribes, the Eastern Inuit Tribe and the Western Inuit Tribe, until 1250 B.C. They had quickly discovered that fighting as two separate nations during the Sozin War was not doing any good. They decided to follow the steps of the Indian Nomads** and combine their forces. The Nomads, however, had not combined to fight, they had combined to flee and left the region of the Sozin Kingdom; this automatically gave the Sozin Kingdom reign over the Nomadic Territory.
The combining of the sister tribes had led to conflict between the two ruling households. Chief Nanuk of the Western Inuit Tribe and Tikaani of the Eastern Inuit Tribe decided that battle between the two of them would be the only way to resolve the issue. The battle was not to death, as this was not an issue any man with a family should die for, except the first man to stay on the ground for longer than ten seconds would lose. Nanuk won the battle, resulting in becoming the first chief of the Inuit Tribe. Nanuk had a son, Hakoda, who had both a son, Sokka, and a daughter, Katara.
Sokka, Nanuk's grandson, was to be married to Tatkret, Tikaani's second granddaughter before she fell ill and soon died of pneumonia. Yue, Tikaani's first great-granddaughter and Tatkret's niece, was then offered as Sokka's bride-to-be. Taken in by her beauty and uniquely blue eyes, Sokka agreed to marry the girl when she turned sixteen, which would make him eighteen. Katara, Nanuk's granddaughter, was to be married to Hahn, a man greatly respected within the tribe as a great warrior and hunter.
This all changed the day Prince Zuko attacked the Tribe.
**A/N: Indian Nomads refers to the country of India, not Native Americans.