Note before you read
This is indeed the world of our favorite airbender, about the generation of the thirty fifth Avatar. You'll find many things different that the present world of the avatar. The islands of the Fire nation is broken into many feudal kingdoms, the firebenders are more like samurai or ronin than the enormous army of today.
This book is set four generations Oma and Shu's love story the earth kingdom is still in it's infantsy. The art of earthbending is still evolving while the kingdom of Omashu struggles to band together it's strength against the established forms of bending.
It also takes place fifteen generations after he evil Avatar Khan, born to the Kingdom of ice, spread his kingdom across the earth, almost conquering all that was.. now the ice kingdom is fighting to maintain it's hold on the world, searching for the Avatar of this generation to reincarnate their defeated leader.
Now, as the ice warriors scour the world for the Avatar we settle on the ancestors of the Air nomads, four tribes of shiftless raiders, living off of those that wander into their vast territories. It's to these rouges that this generation of avatar is born. Can an Avatar born to such a world pull it all together and turn away the lure off ultimate power, or will he fall to it's lure like his past life?
