>Water Nation controls the state of their landscape with waterbending and allied spirits, using shelters to trap heat and create pockets of fertile warmth >they seek to use a massive super-moon that only appears every 100 years to flood the world and use their power to encase the world in an age of eternal water, ice and snow >this will give the Water Nation and their spirits a monopoly on food growth, effectively giving them control over the entire world as nations who want to eat will have to do whatever the waterbenders say >of course, the biggest threat to this monopoly were the people who can create pockets of heat and light of their own - firebenders >the firebenders were therefore wiped out 100 years ago, their archipelago submerged and littered with unnatural glaciers that remain unmelted by the heat through the machinations of sinister spirits >except for one child and his dragon hidden beneath the earth on a crescent island, mysteriously preserved in hardened ash >a blind earthbender, forced to hide her mastery both from her family and the Water Nation soldiers that have taken over her town, sets foot on the island and feels the anomaly in the ground >she used her bending to bring it to the surface and the shell cracks open…
>FN uses technology to pollute the landscape and build war machines, putting them in direct conflict with nature and spirits >WT engage in symbiosis with those spirits naturally inclined towards water and ice to expand their territory and create areas of eternal winter
I like.
>they seek to use a massive super-moon that only appears every 100 years to flood the world and use their power to encase the world in an age of eternal water, ice and snow
What role does Yue play on this story btw?
Born and bred for the role of the Moon spirit's human Avatar, who will ensure a line of God-Kings who will encase the world in night and ice eternally. As such she is betrothed to the Chief's son, Prince Zuko. Neither of them are happy about this.
Instead of stopping Ozai before Sozin's comet it's more about getting Sokka to clap those cheeks so they can't use her for the ceremony.
>they seek to use a massive super-moon that only appears every 100 years to flood the world and use their power to encase the world in an age of eternal water, ice and snow
Reminds me of the Avatar tabletop game I was planning. Though it didn’t use a supermoon but the regular full one, with the whole Water Horde Armada waterbending ice around the Fire Nation lands. After a few moons, a whole blocus is made encircling the FN and fearsome spirits protect it. Royal family (prince and princess) escape via their dragon, in search of the avatar.
Though in my campaign, the villain was a pirate and a warlord like Thanos from Lanfeust of Troy, and an extremely powerful waterbender. His gift is that his healing skills are beyond any other before him, to the point he can heal wounds in seconds and even regrow lost parts. He is the Unscarred, for nothing his foes do leaves a mark.
Well if bending is mostly a spiritual thing, a comet appears like a ball of fire in the sky
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I feel like your villain is a bit too out of what's established in canon. Anyone on me with this?
. Is there a reason why he’s so good with healing? Did he make a deal with some form of minor water spirit, maybe a dark spirit like Koh?
And why isn’t he looked down on for practicing what is viewed as a feminine waterbending discipline? Is he part of a different waterbending culture, some form of offshoot where male healers are accepted? Vikings had a fair deal of egalitarianism between sexes, so maybe these guys can be the Vikings to the regular Water Tribe’s Inuits. Or maybe his crew are all misfits, united under this healer’s flag.
How are missing limbs healed? Water healing only bolsters the body’s natural healing processes, and regrowing limbs isn’t one of them. And where do the materials come from? Does he harvest flesh from others? Transmute stuff like seaweed?
Without adequate character building to explain how ye became what and who he is, this guy just risks becoming another Amon.
Well... if I have to be honest, Amon indirectly is a part of the inspiration. Except that he does have a deal with the spirits.
Part of the reason why he's a pirate is that he was banished.for his way of thinking. Like focusing on healing, inciting others to join on his raids and enticing spirits to attack other nations.
After successes after successes, he came back to his tribe, started a revolt and instigated himself as the new warchief of the newly formed water Horde. With his new position, he gets access to the spirit water which paired with the spirits, full moon and natural genius at healing grants him the power to regrow lost body parts. Which granted him an ever increasing number of followers, and rallied an army around him that believes they can fight without conseuences as long as they don't die.
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It’s good that you’ve thought his background out. It does beg the question, though, as to why he became a pirate. Are there many Water Tribe pirates? Are there others like him, dissatisfied with traditional Water Tribe life?
What drives a tribesman to piracy? Is there a great deal of social unrest caused by age-old ideals wearing away in the face of modernity? Are people dissatisfied with the divide between castes and sexes? Is there a movement of like-minded people who wish for a less rigid, conservative society, and is this pirate an extremist version of these milder ideals? How does the existing Water Tribe authority deal with these revolutionaries and how do they justify whatever they do or don’t do? Things like that.
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>Why he became a pirate
Wealth, power and influence to realise his ambitions? Plus being a pirate he can explore the whole world and discover things his other tribe members never have seen before.
>Are there many Water Tribe pirates?
In the show there was only that one crew we saw, whose member hailed from every nation ('cept Air Nomads). Their captain looks like he came from the Water Tribe. Aang also spoke of pirates he met 100 years before.
>Are there others like him, dissatisfied with traditional Water Tribe life?
It would helps if he's not alone on this. Especially the legitimacy of his actions.
>Are there others like him, dissatisfied with traditional Water Tribe life? What drives a tribesman to piracy? Is there a great deal of social unrest caused by age-old ideals wearing away in the face of modernity?
I think one of his main arguments that wins his people over is to conquer lands belonging to the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation. The former alone owns almost 2/3 of the world. What balance is there in this? Nothing except millenia old customs enforced to keep things as is. But nature doesn't work that way. Nature is not about preserving, but about decay and rebirth. The Avatar preventing conflict between nations stops the birth of a new world, and forces the Water Tribes so stick to the poles, where they barely have any ressources to grow.
>Are people dissatisfied with the divide between castes and sexes? Is there a movement of like-minded people who wish for a less rigid, conservative society, and is this pirate an extremist version of these milder ideals?
Any revolutions starts as a meritocracy. You earn our place, regardless of gender. The Unscarred mastered a feminine art, and rose to the top. Hone your skills for him and the Water Horde and you get what you worked for.
>How does the existing Water Tribe authority deal with these revolutionaries and how do they justify whatever they do or don’t do?
Fiercely, since the pirate is too
>a blind earthbender, forced to hide her mastery both from her family and the Water Nation soldiers that have taken over her town, sets foot on the island and feels the anomaly in the ground
You mean an earthbender and her nonbender brother. If everyone’s elements are changing, shouldn’t Toph’s too? She’s be a good airbender, I think.
Also, how would they even reach Crescent Island? Water Tribe should have total ocean supremacy, the only thing saving the EK bring that most of their continent is dry land. Did a chunk of rock and ice break off from the Fire archipelago and drift over to the EK mainland? Were they discovered by Water Tribe explorers and paraded around, nobody realising they were alive until the other protagonists found them? Something else?
And how do people travel over stretches of water in this AU? Sky bison should be far more common, used for trade and transport between peoples, as getting in Water Tribe waters is virtually a death sentence.
Okay yeah if they use hax spirit power to essentially terraform the world to their advantage that's definitely pretty hard to fight against
Maybe Tui and La manifested into the world more as war gods rather than passive balancers
I think it's a sign of good worldbuilding that you can insert any one of the four nations as the bad guys and they would all have fricking great aesthetics.
I remember having a great idea from the Foggy Swamp Korra threads about a sect of Airbender Ninjas that had to relinquish their Nomadic Monk ways in order to survive, being extremely clandestine and deadly because being hunted down for 100 years straight makes you paranoid and use desperate measures.
One specific design concept being based on charred robes of the original nomads to make them look like angered spirits and draw on the fears of fire nation soldiers and authorities.
AtLA White Power Edition
Earth Kingdom: British Empire
Water Tribes: Vikings at the poles, disgusting French creole Cajuns in the swamp
Air Nomads: Nomadic Laplanders or Celts
Fire Nation: Spanish Conquistadors or hand-chopping Belgians
Replace Oriental mythology and mysticism with traditional Western occultism, witchcraft, and tribal folklore. The four-elements avatar originated in some pseudo-Ancient Greece civilization, the product of secret practices carried out by a hidden fraternal order.
Why would a giant land-based continent-spanning empire be the British? Wouldn't it make much more sense for them to be Napoleonic France or Imperial Germany?
I mean, I literally just made this up right now on the spot. Probably Imperial Germany would make more sense. Actually Napoleonic France might be fun in conjunction with those nasty swamp Cajuns.
Don't you know posting on Cinemaphile(nel) is serious business? We all make sure our posts are professionally edited and peer-reviewed before we even THINK about hitting enter. Fricking pleb.
I mean, I literally just made this up right now on the spot. Probably Imperial Germany would make more sense. Actually Napoleonic France might be fun in conjunction with those nasty swamp Cajuns.
AtLA White Power Edition
Earth Kingdom: British Empire
Water Tribes: Vikings at the poles, disgusting French creole Cajuns in the swamp
Air Nomads: Nomadic Laplanders or Celts
Fire Nation: Spanish Conquistadors or hand-chopping Belgians
Replace Oriental mythology and mysticism with traditional Western occultism, witchcraft, and tribal folklore. The four-elements avatar originated in some pseudo-Ancient Greece civilization, the product of secret practices carried out by a hidden fraternal order.
Earth empire - pretty obvious Commowealth or germany 17 th cent with it feudal fragmentation and autonomy of every big city. And also with conquest of them by theit neighbors.
Why would a giant land-based continent-spanning empire be the British? Wouldn't it make much more sense for them to be Napoleonic France or Imperial Germany?
I mean, I literally just made this up right now on the spot. Probably Imperial Germany would make more sense. Actually Napoleonic France might be fun in conjunction with those nasty swamp Cajuns.
I am perfectly fine with this Homebrew Warhammer Fantasy Avatar setting.
Aidan is the latest Incarnate, a precocious young man from a lost tribe of pseudo-Celts. He is joined on his adventures by Katla and her older brother Snorri. She has power over water while he is a bold, if immature, young warrior. Later they find Tiphaine "Tiph" Beaufort, a hedge witch with powerful earth magics at her command. Aidan's familiar is an intelligent, magical bull. Finally, Zacarías, a conflicted young magician initially pursues them in order to regain his status as crown prince, but later joins their cause against his own father. His sister Azucena and her companions Mía and Tecla also pursue them, proving to be challenging adversaries.
Zac is joined in exile by his caring, somewhat rotund uncle Íñigo, a retired conquistador and accomplished magician in his own right. Íñigo is also a member of the gnostic Order of the White Rose, with powerful connections the world over.
I mean, I literally just made this up right now on the spot. Probably Imperial Germany would make more sense. Actually Napoleonic France might be fun in conjunction with those nasty swamp Cajuns.
I did think it would have been pretty neat if the western version of the whole elements are used by various peoples thing could kick off, like air nomad become the riders of the steppes where fierce autumn storms and endless fields of grass allow their favored mounts the Slepneiren to roam free and wild even as the clouds roiled beneath their hooves.
Far to the north on the icy fjords the water and ice slinging babarians howl to their blood drenched moon as it heralds a new age of wolves upon the fat and decadent nobility of the Earth realms of which there are many. Fire nation in the western asthetic is either the harsh blowing desert sands of the north african continent or hispania or even jolly ol british isles where the dragons still roam free and wild hunted as they are by the other nations.
I like the idea of the earth people being like Napoleonic French. What you said, plus the sheer obviousness of inept, pigheaded monarchs is just too perfect.
It would also be incredibly easy to carry over the political themes in LoK and add a European flavor. Season one is Marxism, season two anarchism obviously, season three fascism. LoK already plays with a lot of western looking stuff with all the 1920s looking gangsters, steampunk stuff, frickin' professional sports like Europe's obsession with soccer.
Tiernan, the son of Aidan seeks to reestablish the lost Draoidh tribes and ends up being vilified as a bigoted nationalist by pseudo-Marxist Republicans. Frickin' pseudo-Irish skinheads running around like the IRA.
Ha, I forgot about season 2 with Unalaq and all that. That could easily be a wizard/astrologer type planning a demonic ritual to open the planar gates during planetary alignment. Instead of all the weird pokemon spirits in LoK you get weird lovecraftian monsters and like gremlins and shit.
I thought the implication was that their roles an nations were swapped, not their personalities. Zuko and Azula dig him out of the ice, Sokka and Katara try to stop them.
The fact that the Fire Nation is a naval power in a world with aquakinesis is staggering. Fleets of canoe cavalry like these guys suggest
Change them from Inuits to gigahomie Hyperboreans.
Fire Nation can be Pacific Islanders.
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Water Tribe can just be Ice Mongols or as anon said Hyperboreans.
would have dominated the oceans. They don't have the infrastructure or resources to flourish beyond the poles but this is a world where the FN had an industrial revolution and somehow didn't realise hot air rises until an Earth Kingdom dude pointed it out. Hence why they had internal combustion engines before hot air balloons. World building in this franchise is moronic, this wouldn't be a stretch.
Well if bending is mostly a spiritual thing, a comet appears like a ball of fire in the sky
>they seek to use a massive super-moon that only appears every 100 years to flood the world and use their power to encase the world in an age of eternal water, ice and snow
Reminds me of the Avatar tabletop game I was planning. Though it didn’t use a supermoon but the regular full one, with the whole Water Horde Armada waterbending ice around the Fire Nation lands. After a few moons, a whole blocus is made encircling the FN and fearsome spirits protect it. Royal family (prince and princess) escape via their dragon, in search of the avatar.
Though in my campaign, the villain was a pirate and a warlord like Thanos from Lanfeust of Troy, and an extremely powerful waterbender. His gift is that his healing skills are beyond any other before him, to the point he can heal wounds in seconds and even regrow lost parts. He is the Unscarred, for nothing his foes do leaves a mark.
I feel like your villain is a bit too out of what's established in canon. Anyone on me with this?
They could easily be pirates/raiders on steroids.
The vikings were feared because they were really fast in their ships and with water beinding they could strike every coast and waterway pretty quickly.
Wouldnt it make more sense for Toph to be a FN noble like Mai and she can see through thermic vision?
Also have Aang as the last waterbender, he identifies his morals with the element since water heals ppl
Nah, just make her an adrenaline junkie Airbender that likes to jump from high places. She's still blind but feels her way through the air currents and the sounds around her. Her family are still idiots and don't realize the weird sounds coming from the nearby cliff at night are the crazy screams of their lunatic daughter launching herself from the mountain over and over again.
So in this AU, the world map is more of an Archipelago rather than a large continent. This allows for the Water Nation to be large, powerful Navy fueled by their waterbending and warrior tribes, that go island to island raiding and enslaving the populations. Metal is extremely rare and brittle in this AU, so the Fire Tribes don't have any of their advanced weaponry and transportation, they are sort of like early Asian tribes using thin, brittle blades and flint arrows in combat.
>Zuko keeps waking up crusty sheets every full moon and wonders why >One full moon he stays up pretending to be asleep >Around midnight he think he sees a spirit but before he can get up he loses control of his body and is forced to jack himself off >As he cums he regains control and sprints out of bed to confront the spirit but runs about their house trying to find it to no avail >As he is walking back he happens upon Azula who notes the stain on his underwear >He tries to make something up to explain it but Azula catches on quickly and just tells him she will wash his clothes right now because she is a good sister >Zuko agrees and changes, handing her his soiled undergarments, glad he doesn’t have to wash them this time >She takes his clothes and begins huffing them >She was almost caught this full moon but she still got what she wanted in the end
>hey zuzu, chief tells me bryke are retconning spirit world n' shit >zuzu i need you to help me >the spirits are evil because they need you to frick me >Zuko, se must join our bodies in heated passion to cleanse them of their evil, from dusk till dawn mind melting no-pulling out melting sex >only the true Chief's nation can accomplish this
Godamnit now I want the lore to be that Ozai in this universe likes to isolate heads of the opossing armies or nations and challenging them personally to one on one combat before beating them down and taking their heads to intimidate the opposing armies.
Or how they take down the earth or air (as its a reverse universe) is he leads a strategic assault with her killing the leader of said nation publicly before his subjects for completely demoralize them.
Why did Avatar use Southeast Asian (SEA) culture for the Fire Nation and not the Water tribe? Honestly Avatar's world building would be better if it didn't gave each element only one "country". There can be multiple countries for each element.
No I mean there should be more than 5 countries in Avatar. Water is the only one with more than one country representing them with the north and south tribe. There is the swampbenders but they're more like rural hicks living in the Earth Kingdom.
Imagine Icezula freezing your feet to the ground, creating a dome of ice surrounding you, and growing icicles inwards until you've been impaled from every direction.
Water Tribe Raiders honestly sound pretty fricking scary, If you're a coastal village you better hope you have some serious military or trade connections otherwise you're gonna get your shit kicked in.
God, I still remember writing ficlets for an AU where Katara and Azula basically switch places.
Thus having a mean, vicious heroine and a kind, but determined villainess.
Ozula/Fem!Ozai would probably burn Zuka/Fem!Zuko for looking prettier than her just like Ozai burns Zuko in canon for having a bigger pp than him
He's to busy deep dicking Male!Ty Lee.
I'd imagine Male Ty Lee would be a friendly jock, wonder how that scene at the beach where she chi-blocks a bunch of guys would go tho
Male Mai would be an emo assasin, all the fangirls that hate her in canon would suddendly love him.
Anon just as you want an AU thread also love that they changed zuko's scar to be more like cuts than burns
i really like blood bending wish they expanded more on that, it was pretty metal
They should change the clothes as well.
does Zuko just have claw marks from Azula now?
Tuunbaq
oh Zuko might tell people that's the reason, but have you seen Azula's nails, that was clearly her
I like the cuts. Should have been Zukokka’s eye gouged out, though.
Sure, the culture that lived in ice huts would totally be a contender for world domination
Change them from Inuits to gigahomie Hyperboreans.
Fire Nation can be Pacific Islanders.
>Water Nation controls the state of their landscape with waterbending and allied spirits, using shelters to trap heat and create pockets of fertile warmth
>they seek to use a massive super-moon that only appears every 100 years to flood the world and use their power to encase the world in an age of eternal water, ice and snow
>this will give the Water Nation and their spirits a monopoly on food growth, effectively giving them control over the entire world as nations who want to eat will have to do whatever the waterbenders say
>of course, the biggest threat to this monopoly were the people who can create pockets of heat and light of their own - firebenders
>the firebenders were therefore wiped out 100 years ago, their archipelago submerged and littered with unnatural glaciers that remain unmelted by the heat through the machinations of sinister spirits
>except for one child and his dragon hidden beneath the earth on a crescent island, mysteriously preserved in hardened ash
>a blind earthbender, forced to hide her mastery both from her family and the Water Nation soldiers that have taken over her town, sets foot on the island and feels the anomaly in the ground
>she used her bending to bring it to the surface and the shell cracks open…
>FN uses technology to pollute the landscape and build war machines, putting them in direct conflict with nature and spirits
>WT engage in symbiosis with those spirits naturally inclined towards water and ice to expand their territory and create areas of eternal winter
I like.
>they seek to use a massive super-moon that only appears every 100 years to flood the world and use their power to encase the world in an age of eternal water, ice and snow
What role does Yue play on this story btw?
Sacrifice to summon the moon spirit into the mortal world, which the ocean spirit locked away after going mad with jealousy?
Born and bred for the role of the Moon spirit's human Avatar, who will ensure a line of God-Kings who will encase the world in night and ice eternally. As such she is betrothed to the Chief's son, Prince Zuko. Neither of them are happy about this.
Instead of stopping Ozai before Sozin's comet it's more about getting Sokka to clap those cheeks so they can't use her for the ceremony.
Fool she can still be sacrificed despite anything that happens
>they seek to use a massive super-moon that only appears every 100 years to flood the world and use their power to encase the world in an age of eternal water, ice and snow
Reminds me of the Avatar tabletop game I was planning. Though it didn’t use a supermoon but the regular full one, with the whole Water Horde Armada waterbending ice around the Fire Nation lands. After a few moons, a whole blocus is made encircling the FN and fearsome spirits protect it. Royal family (prince and princess) escape via their dragon, in search of the avatar.
Though in my campaign, the villain was a pirate and a warlord like Thanos from Lanfeust of Troy, and an extremely powerful waterbender. His gift is that his healing skills are beyond any other before him, to the point he can heal wounds in seconds and even regrow lost parts. He is the Unscarred, for nothing his foes do leaves a mark.
I have to agree with
. Is there a reason why he’s so good with healing? Did he make a deal with some form of minor water spirit, maybe a dark spirit like Koh?
And why isn’t he looked down on for practicing what is viewed as a feminine waterbending discipline? Is he part of a different waterbending culture, some form of offshoot where male healers are accepted? Vikings had a fair deal of egalitarianism between sexes, so maybe these guys can be the Vikings to the regular Water Tribe’s Inuits. Or maybe his crew are all misfits, united under this healer’s flag.
How are missing limbs healed? Water healing only bolsters the body’s natural healing processes, and regrowing limbs isn’t one of them. And where do the materials come from? Does he harvest flesh from others? Transmute stuff like seaweed?
Without adequate character building to explain how ye became what and who he is, this guy just risks becoming another Amon.
Well... if I have to be honest, Amon indirectly is a part of the inspiration. Except that he does have a deal with the spirits.
Part of the reason why he's a pirate is that he was banished.for his way of thinking. Like focusing on healing, inciting others to join on his raids and enticing spirits to attack other nations.
After successes after successes, he came back to his tribe, started a revolt and instigated himself as the new warchief of the newly formed water Horde. With his new position, he gets access to the spirit water which paired with the spirits, full moon and natural genius at healing grants him the power to regrow lost body parts. Which granted him an ever increasing number of followers, and rallied an army around him that believes they can fight without conseuences as long as they don't die.
It’s good that you’ve thought his background out. It does beg the question, though, as to why he became a pirate. Are there many Water Tribe pirates? Are there others like him, dissatisfied with traditional Water Tribe life?
What drives a tribesman to piracy? Is there a great deal of social unrest caused by age-old ideals wearing away in the face of modernity? Are people dissatisfied with the divide between castes and sexes? Is there a movement of like-minded people who wish for a less rigid, conservative society, and is this pirate an extremist version of these milder ideals? How does the existing Water Tribe authority deal with these revolutionaries and how do they justify whatever they do or don’t do? Things like that.
>Why he became a pirate
Wealth, power and influence to realise his ambitions? Plus being a pirate he can explore the whole world and discover things his other tribe members never have seen before.
>Are there many Water Tribe pirates?
In the show there was only that one crew we saw, whose member hailed from every nation ('cept Air Nomads). Their captain looks like he came from the Water Tribe. Aang also spoke of pirates he met 100 years before.
>Are there others like him, dissatisfied with traditional Water Tribe life?
It would helps if he's not alone on this. Especially the legitimacy of his actions.
>Are there others like him, dissatisfied with traditional Water Tribe life? What drives a tribesman to piracy? Is there a great deal of social unrest caused by age-old ideals wearing away in the face of modernity?
I think one of his main arguments that wins his people over is to conquer lands belonging to the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation. The former alone owns almost 2/3 of the world. What balance is there in this? Nothing except millenia old customs enforced to keep things as is. But nature doesn't work that way. Nature is not about preserving, but about decay and rebirth. The Avatar preventing conflict between nations stops the birth of a new world, and forces the Water Tribes so stick to the poles, where they barely have any ressources to grow.
>Are people dissatisfied with the divide between castes and sexes? Is there a movement of like-minded people who wish for a less rigid, conservative society, and is this pirate an extremist version of these milder ideals?
Any revolutions starts as a meritocracy. You earn our place, regardless of gender. The Unscarred mastered a feminine art, and rose to the top. Hone your skills for him and the Water Horde and you get what you worked for.
>How does the existing Water Tribe authority deal with these revolutionaries and how do they justify whatever they do or don’t do?
Fiercely, since the pirate is too
>a blind earthbender, forced to hide her mastery both from her family and the Water Nation soldiers that have taken over her town, sets foot on the island and feels the anomaly in the ground
You mean an earthbender and her nonbender brother. If everyone’s elements are changing, shouldn’t Toph’s too? She’s be a good airbender, I think.
Also, how would they even reach Crescent Island? Water Tribe should have total ocean supremacy, the only thing saving the EK bring that most of their continent is dry land. Did a chunk of rock and ice break off from the Fire archipelago and drift over to the EK mainland? Were they discovered by Water Tribe explorers and paraded around, nobody realising they were alive until the other protagonists found them? Something else?
And how do people travel over stretches of water in this AU? Sky bison should be far more common, used for trade and transport between peoples, as getting in Water Tribe waters is virtually a death sentence.
Okay yeah if they use hax spirit power to essentially terraform the world to their advantage that's definitely pretty hard to fight against
Maybe Tui and La manifested into the world more as war gods rather than passive balancers
Maybe they use the supermoon to summon Tui and La.
I think it's a sign of good worldbuilding that you can insert any one of the four nations as the bad guys and they would all have fricking great aesthetics.
I remember having a great idea from the Foggy Swamp Korra threads about a sect of Airbender Ninjas that had to relinquish their Nomadic Monk ways in order to survive, being extremely clandestine and deadly because being hunted down for 100 years straight makes you paranoid and use desperate measures.
One specific design concept being based on charred robes of the original nomads to make them look like angered spirits and draw on the fears of fire nation soldiers and authorities.
AtLA White Power Edition
Earth Kingdom: British Empire
Water Tribes: Vikings at the poles, disgusting French creole Cajuns in the swamp
Air Nomads: Nomadic Laplanders or Celts
Fire Nation: Spanish Conquistadors or hand-chopping Belgians
Replace Oriental mythology and mysticism with traditional Western occultism, witchcraft, and tribal folklore. The four-elements avatar originated in some pseudo-Ancient Greece civilization, the product of secret practices carried out by a hidden fraternal order.
Why would a giant land-based continent-spanning empire be the British? Wouldn't it make much more sense for them to be Napoleonic France or Imperial Germany?
I mean, I literally just made this up right now on the spot. Probably Imperial Germany would make more sense. Actually Napoleonic France might be fun in conjunction with those nasty swamp Cajuns.
Don't you know posting on Cinemaphile(nel) is serious business? We all make sure our posts are professionally edited and peer-reviewed before we even THINK about hitting enter. Fricking pleb.
Earth empire - pretty obvious Commowealth or germany 17 th cent with it feudal fragmentation and autonomy of every big city. And also with conquest of them by theit neighbors.
I am perfectly fine with this Homebrew Warhammer Fantasy Avatar setting.
Aidan is the latest Incarnate, a precocious young man from a lost tribe of pseudo-Celts. He is joined on his adventures by Katla and her older brother Snorri. She has power over water while he is a bold, if immature, young warrior. Later they find Tiphaine "Tiph" Beaufort, a hedge witch with powerful earth magics at her command. Aidan's familiar is an intelligent, magical bull. Finally, Zacarías, a conflicted young magician initially pursues them in order to regain his status as crown prince, but later joins their cause against his own father. His sister Azucena and her companions Mía and Tecla also pursue them, proving to be challenging adversaries.
Incarnate the Last Draoidh
Zac is joined in exile by his caring, somewhat rotund uncle Íñigo, a retired conquistador and accomplished magician in his own right. Íñigo is also a member of the gnostic Order of the White Rose, with powerful connections the world over.
I did think it would have been pretty neat if the western version of the whole elements are used by various peoples thing could kick off, like air nomad become the riders of the steppes where fierce autumn storms and endless fields of grass allow their favored mounts the Slepneiren to roam free and wild even as the clouds roiled beneath their hooves.
Far to the north on the icy fjords the water and ice slinging babarians howl to their blood drenched moon as it heralds a new age of wolves upon the fat and decadent nobility of the Earth realms of which there are many. Fire nation in the western asthetic is either the harsh blowing desert sands of the north african continent or hispania or even jolly ol british isles where the dragons still roam free and wild hunted as they are by the other nations.
What about Kuvira's empire on TLOK? Seeing that she was the great uniter and all could it be the Napeolenic empire perphaps?
I like the idea of the earth people being like Napoleonic French. What you said, plus the sheer obviousness of inept, pigheaded monarchs is just too perfect.
It would also be incredibly easy to carry over the political themes in LoK and add a European flavor. Season one is Marxism, season two anarchism obviously, season three fascism. LoK already plays with a lot of western looking stuff with all the 1920s looking gangsters, steampunk stuff, frickin' professional sports like Europe's obsession with soccer.
Tiernan, the son of Aidan seeks to reestablish the lost Draoidh tribes and ends up being vilified as a bigoted nationalist by pseudo-Marxist Republicans. Frickin' pseudo-Irish skinheads running around like the IRA.
Ha, I forgot about season 2 with Unalaq and all that. That could easily be a wizard/astrologer type planning a demonic ritual to open the planar gates during planetary alignment. Instead of all the weird pokemon spirits in LoK you get weird lovecraftian monsters and like gremlins and shit.
>angry shortstack Kuvira
>misty luggins
See pic related
Water tribes are now finnish
Earth kingdom is HRE
Air nomads are catholic monks
Fire nation is byzantium
That's cool but I prefer my version.
>that pic
Water Tribe can just be Ice Mongols or as anon said Hyperboreans.
I thought the implication was that their roles an nations were swapped, not their personalities. Zuko and Azula dig him out of the ice, Sokka and Katara try to stop them.
The fact that the Fire Nation is a naval power in a world with aquakinesis is staggering. Fleets of canoe cavalry like these guys suggest
would have dominated the oceans. They don't have the infrastructure or resources to flourish beyond the poles but this is a world where the FN had an industrial revolution and somehow didn't realise hot air rises until an Earth Kingdom dude pointed it out. Hence why they had internal combustion engines before hot air balloons. World building in this franchise is moronic, this wouldn't be a stretch.
If they have an equivalent of Sozin's Comet, then yeah, they'd be pretty scary.
Well Sozin’s comet is a rock on fire in the sky right? What if the new comet is made of ice?
Comets already contain a high percentage of ice.
And rock and gas. Realistic Sozin’s Comet would have buffed every other nation EXCEPT firebenders.
Well if bending is mostly a spiritual thing, a comet appears like a ball of fire in the sky
I feel like your villain is a bit too out of what's established in canon. Anyone on me with this?
Yeah, if all the other nations lived in SPACE, where it's not on FIRE from the friction of the upper atmosphere.
They could easily be pirates/raiders on steroids.
The vikings were feared because they were really fast in their ships and with water beinding they could strike every coast and waterway pretty quickly.
Wouldnt it make more sense for Toph to be a FN noble like Mai and she can see through thermic vision?
Also have Aang as the last waterbender, he identifies his morals with the element since water heals ppl
Nah, just make her an adrenaline junkie Airbender that likes to jump from high places. She's still blind but feels her way through the air currents and the sounds around her. Her family are still idiots and don't realize the weird sounds coming from the nearby cliff at night are the crazy screams of their lunatic daughter launching herself from the mountain over and over again.
So in this AU, the world map is more of an Archipelago rather than a large continent. This allows for the Water Nation to be large, powerful Navy fueled by their waterbending and warrior tribes, that go island to island raiding and enslaving the populations. Metal is extremely rare and brittle in this AU, so the Fire Tribes don't have any of their advanced weaponry and transportation, they are sort of like early Asian tribes using thin, brittle blades and flint arrows in combat.
>WaterAzula uses piss bending to make WaterZuko wet himself in order to humilate him
>WaterAzula uses blood bending to give WaterZuko whyboners around her
>WaterAzula uses piss bending to make WaterTyLee wet herself in order to humilate her
FTFY
>Zuko keeps waking up crusty sheets every full moon and wonders why
>One full moon he stays up pretending to be asleep
>Around midnight he think he sees a spirit but before he can get up he loses control of his body and is forced to jack himself off
>As he cums he regains control and sprints out of bed to confront the spirit but runs about their house trying to find it to no avail
>As he is walking back he happens upon Azula who notes the stain on his underwear
>He tries to make something up to explain it but Azula catches on quickly and just tells him she will wash his clothes right now because she is a good sister
>Zuko agrees and changes, handing her his soiled undergarments, glad he doesn’t have to wash them this time
>She takes his clothes and begins huffing them
>She was almost caught this full moon but she still got what she wanted in the end
>hey zuzu, chief tells me bryke are retconning spirit world n' shit
>zuzu i need you to help me
>the spirits are evil because they need you to frick me
>Zuko, se must join our bodies in heated passion to cleanse them of their evil, from dusk till dawn mind melting no-pulling out melting sex
>only the true Chief's nation can accomplish this
Why is it that we always descend into one magical realm or another?
water nation = sea people, proto indo europeans, mongols, and every other wastelander savage that united the world via tribute and forced settlement
Here's your Water Tribe Ozai bro.
"TO THE FOUR CORNERS!"
Godamnit now I want the lore to be that Ozai in this universe likes to isolate heads of the opossing armies or nations and challenging them personally to one on one combat before beating them down and taking their heads to intimidate the opposing armies.
Or how they take down the earth or air (as its a reverse universe) is he leads a strategic assault with her killing the leader of said nation publicly before his subjects for completely demoralize them.
Why did Avatar use Southeast Asian (SEA) culture for the Fire Nation and not the Water tribe? Honestly Avatar's world building would be better if it didn't gave each element only one "country". There can be multiple countries for each element.
>There can be multiple countries for each element.
They did.
Fire Nation has
>Thailand/SEA
>Japan
>China
Earth Kingdom has
>China
>Japan
>Mongolia
>Arabia
Water Tribe has
>Inuit
>Florida
Air Nomads
>Tibet
Not to mention "China" is fricking huge.
>Arabia
ehhhhhhh. I think the closest I can compare sandbenders to are northern african sorts
No I mean there should be more than 5 countries in Avatar. Water is the only one with more than one country representing them with the north and south tribe. There is the swampbenders but they're more like rural hicks living in the Earth Kingdom.
As I recall the Earth Kingdom also had some Korean looking people.
Imagine Icezula freezing your feet to the ground, creating a dome of ice surrounding you, and growing icicles inwards until you've been impaled from every direction.
Azula would never look so ugly
Frick off Scrapper.
AU Zhao should be a giant with a huge beard and a sleigh pulled by savage polar bear-caribou hybrids.
Water Tribe Raiders honestly sound pretty fricking scary, If you're a coastal village you better hope you have some serious military or trade connections otherwise you're gonna get your shit kicked in.
Depends, some of the FN guys are relatively nice guys, Sokka got off the hook quite easily
God, I still remember writing ficlets for an AU where Katara and Azula basically switch places.
Thus having a mean, vicious heroine and a kind, but determined villainess.
I don't know how this was suppose to ruin my day.
Looks like a child molester
He'd be constantly molesting femzuko, so you're technically correct
Ozula/Fem!Ozai would probably burn Zuka/Fem!Zuko for looking prettier than her just like Ozai burns Zuko in canon for having a bigger pp than him
I'd imagine Male Ty Lee would be a friendly jock, wonder how that scene at the beach where she chi-blocks a bunch of guys would go tho
Male Mai would be an emo assasin, all the fangirls that hate her in canon would suddendly love him.
He's to busy deep dicking Male!Ty Lee.
>it's an waterzula uses bloodbending to make her brother think he's a siscon in the bedroom scene episode
>uses bloodbending to stop zuko before orgasm to have more hours of sex
>again and again
>and again and again
>I keep telling you, Zuko if you can't cum from your prostate you're not cumming at all.
What a shit thread I came here to jerk to avatars gitls pics not reading
Thread's starts with literally "I have come to ruin your day"
WaterZuko scar should be one of frostburn to make it fit