avatar roku was the first avatar ever in the last airbender.
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more than a century before the events of the series begin, the fire nation experienced rapid industrialization, technological advancement and shifts in demographics. fire lord sozin, ruler of the fire nation, planned a world war to expand his nation's wealth, territory and influence. he was prevented from carrying out his plans by avatar roku, who was born in the fire nation. after roku's death, the avatar was reincarnated as an airbender named aang. because the avatar was now a child, sozin saw his chance and proceeded with his militant plans. at the age of twelve, aang learned about his avatar status because of the threat of sozin's war. afraid of his new responsibilities and of separation from his mentor gyatso, he fled his home on his flying bison, appa. aang was forced into the ocean by a storm; he entered the avatar state and encased himself and appa in suspended animation in an iceberg near the south pole for one-hundred years. sozin, knowing the avatar's reincarnation cycle mandated an air nomad was the new avatar, carried out a genocide against the air nomads during the passage of a once-a-century comet that increased the firebenders' power, and continued his world conquest.
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"the legend of korra", a sequel series to "avatar: the last airbender", premiered on nickelodeon on april 14, 2012. it was written and produced by michael dante dimartino and bryan konietzko, the creators and producers of the original series. the show was initially titled "avatar: legend of korra", then "the last airbender: legend of korra"; its events occur seventy years after the end of "avatar: the last airbender". the series' protagonist is korra, a 17-year-old woman from the southern water tribe who is the incarnation of the avatar after aang's death.





















































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