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"They say that the second time the Fire Nation invaded, they succeded.
I don't know much about the days of Peace, in the time of Avatar Aang. All I've known is the life of a Fire Nation slave under the rule of the Phoenix King. Of course, out here in the Borderlands, near the swamp, we answer to Lord Zhao and his lady wife Azula. Or what we call her in the slave quarters, the Dragon Mistress.
I don't know much about the art of Bending, mostly passed down from my father and Grandfather Iroh in his tea shop. The Fire Nation wanted it that way. They bided their time until the avatar was once again born into their country. When the Second Nation War was over and the smoke cleared, it was the Fire Nation that ruled. The enemy benders were enslaved; most were killed. The only art that wasn't completely lost was Fire Bending, and they used it to keep us down.
A hundred years of oppression and I was born a slave to slaves, along with my younger brother and sister. My mother said we were an important family long ago, and that our ancestor was the greatest earth bender ever, but in these days I'm just Liu Beifong. I was no one special. I didn't want to be, until I found out that I was the next Avatar."
-Liu Beifong, The Avatar Scrolls