Their journey took them to the Southern Air Temple, Aang’s old home, before they visited Kyoshi Island (the home of the Avatar before Roku) and Omashu, the second-largest city in the Earth Kingdom, ruled by the ancient King Bumi (who was a childhood friend of Aang’s). Katara, a waterbender, agreed to teach Aang in the ways of water magic. Sokka and Katara joined Aang on his flying air bison, Appa. With their help, Aang defeated Zuko and resolved to help save the world. He saw this for the first time when Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation raided Sokka and Katara’s village. Aang learned that the Fire Nation had conquered vast swathes of the world and now planned to conquer the rest. In Avatar‘s first season (or “Book”), Aang is awoken after 100 years in the iceberg by Sokka and Katara, two young members of the Southern Water Tribe. NOTE: Spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender follow.

Unfortunately for him, the new Avatar Aang had been accidentally frozen in an iceberg and so escaped his purge.Ī map depicting the action in Season 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Twelve years after Roku’s death, Sozin began the war and destroyed the Air Nomads utterly. He was opposed by Avatar Roku, but after Roku perished in a volcanic eruption Sozin had a window of opportunity to begin the war before the new Avatar came of age. In the backstory of the series, the Fire Lord Sozin had harnessed the power of an approaching comet to embark on a war of destruction and conquest. There are also a string of smaller island archipelagos and a stretch of the northern coastline of the main continent which used to be controlled by the Air Nomads. There are small continental landmasses located at both the northern and southern polar regions, controlled by the Northern Water Tribe (the more populous and powerful of the two) and the Southern Water Tribe. The Fire Nation also controls the island archipelago extending eastwards towards the main landmass, as well as another subcontinent located just off the north-western coast of the main landmass (a region known as the Fire Nation Colonies, and by the time of The Legend of Korra has become the United Republic of Nations). To the west of this landmass is a much smaller continent which is controlled by the Fire Nation. This landmass is mostly controlled by the Earth Kingdom, from its enormous capital city at Ba Sing Se. The Avatar world consists of one major continental landmass which dominates an entire hemisphere. Over the course of 61 episodes, numerous locations were visited and diligently added to the map by fans. The creators of Avatar mapped the world the story takes place in very early on: a map of the world appears in the opening credits of every episode. A map of the Avatar: The Last Airbender world.

Transparent map of the avatar the last airbender world