The Long War

The Lady walked many miles to arrive at her destination. She was tired and hungry. The travel hadn't been easy. She was no air nomad and flying-bison were not freely given, even to the Avatar. She traveled by herself draging her own weight. She had learned yound to be independant. So walked across the world, taking shelter here and there where people were generous enough to let her in.

People from her era were generaly poor. They hadn't much and since the winter was coming, it was even more an accurate statement. They were slowly staking food in there homes, basements mainly. And food was rare. War ha done a number on them. Farming soils were rare and many were soiled with the blood of the Time.

Even if the war was said to help economy, this time, it hadn't. The Long War had destroyed almost everything. Benders against benders. The war wasn't win by any sides. They were both defeated by the Time. They lost all their men, all their ressources, and soon, both returned home, empty handed.

The Avatar, Lady Kana simply stated the facts for them, and they all stoped. Well she did had to raise her fist and fight her way into the heart of the battle were the generals of both sides were fighting to death. She had used strenght and Avatar powers to force them to stop.

They nearly just toss her aside their conflict, but she force their hands. She knew it had to stop. She couldn't let them escalate so quickly into forbiden form of bendings. They didn't seem to care weither it was forbiden or not. They only wanted to win. Win for what purpose, for whom. They had already forgotten and they were merly enjoyong the fight.

She obliged them to listen to her wisdom. To see what they had cause, the great suffering of the World's balance. Eyes wides open reflecting the destruction they had cause. And Lady Kana, charismatic as she was, had made her point clear, no more empty wars. Violence was never the answer. And Human in general lacked wisdom.

When the Long War ceased, Lady Kana realised how much men meant destruction, to everyone and everything around them. Men never knew peace.

It is at this point that Lady Kana started to dig in history books and lost sories. She seeked a time when Men were peaceful, but she never found. And despair found her. She lost faith in humankind and lost faith in her Role, duty, as the Avatar, Why salvage a world that wasn't not worth it. Humankind did not earn anything except perhaps Inexistence. Maybe she ought to erase them from the surface of the earth.

That is what the Avatar thruly believed. They were not meant to exist, not in the way they lived. All of them had long forgotten the spirits. None were respectfull of the world they lived in. It was just taken for granted, that men had always been there. But Lady Kana knew, within herslef, it was wrong. Human had not always been those mindless creatures with less than worthy vertues.

It is the Long War that had sent her on her inital quest : To find the Beginning of the Humankind

Maybe, she would find something worth saving. Her quest started in meditation and them followed a murkier path. After weeks of lonely travel, lost in her thoughts about Wan and the Origin of the Civilisation, she found Hope again. She had not find a way to overhrow the mental wall, but she found way to make men worthy again.

Maybe all men needed was to be rememebered. That it was first fear and pain they met in the knew Wolrd. They needed to fell opress again. Maybe then, they would remmeber something. They had to loose everything they had worked for in order to earn Salvation again. Years of easy living had made them lazy and stupid. But in fear, they would fing wisdom again. In pain, they would awaken.

She had to erase the past they tought was. She had to make them forget about the life they were living, a living lie, as it was. They had to see the truth again. And so they would.

Once they had found wisdom again, then, they would be worthy to be call Man.

Destroy the present lies in hope of a better future.