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The Avatar Legends Timeline

Take a journey with the Avatar Legends through the centuries. Scroll down to discover key moments for each Avatar and explore the pivotal events that shaped the rich history of the Four Nations.

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The Era of Avatar Wan

Beginnings, Pt. 1: Wan's Story

The Legend of Korra S2 E7

Exiled to the Spirit Wilds, the street thief Wan becomes the first Avatar.

Avatar Wan in a robe firebends alongside a large dragon in a mystical, cloudy background.

Beginnings, Pt. 2: Wan's Story

The Legend of Korra S2 E8

Atoning for freeing Vaatu, the spirit of chaos, Wan tracks it down to the South Pole.

Avatar Wan with glowing eyes stands in a defensive pose, surrounded by swirling blue and green energy.
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Hidden History

More than 90 Avatars lived between the eras of Wan and Yangchen.
decorative line They upheld the cycle of water, earth, fire and air to bring balance to the world.
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The Era of Avatar Yangchen

The Rift: Yangchen’s Story

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Young Yangchen makes a deal with the spirit General Old Iron to assuage his anger over the loss of a fellow spirit.

A paintbrush style Air symbol with three interlocking spirals on a black background.

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The Dawn of Yangchen

Struggling to gain the same respect as her predecessor, Yangchen discovers a scheme among corrupt power brokers to control trade via a weapon of mass destruction.

An ink brush painting of Avatar Yangchen looking over her shoulder with hair streaming behind her and a line of silhouettes behind her.

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The Legacy of Yangchen

Yangchen assembles her Team Avatar to calm hostilities as heads of state clash, but her success depends on measuring the worth of humanity and how much can be sacrificed in the name of balance.

An ink brush painting of Avatar Yangchen in a bending pose in front of an Air Nomad temple atop a mountain, with another bender in a blue outfit.
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The Era of Avatar Kuruk

The Shadow of Kyoshi: Kuruk's Story

Kuruk travels with his Team Avatar, acting carefree but waging secret battles to keep balance.

A paintbrush style Water symbol depicting waves on a black background.

Escape from the Spirit World: Kuruk’s Story

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Kuruk falls in love, only to have tragedy strike on his wedding day at the Spirit Oasis.

Kuruk and a Water Tribe woman in winter clothing sit by the water under a full moon, looking at each other.
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The Era of Avatar Kyoshi

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The Rise of Kyoshi

In a time of poverty and lawlessness, Kyoshi rises from humble origins to becoming a powerful but rough-edged Avatar, battling pirates in Southern polar waters and deep-seated corruption in the Earth Kingdom.

An ink brush painting of Avatar Kyoshi wearing Kyoshi Warrior clothing and a painted face, with a serious expression.

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The Shadow of Kyoshi

Kyoshi wades into Fire Nation politics, but an ancient and deadly force from the Spirit World may be the larger threat.

An ink brush painting of Kyoshi in a warrior outfit and fighting stance, with a fire nation soldier also in fighting stance behind her.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender S2 E5

Defending her peninsula against the warlord Chin the Conqueror, Kyoshi severs it from the mainland in a spectacular act of bending, a feat that makes her infamous.

Avatar Kyoshi stands powerfully on a cliff edge with both fans raised high, surrounded by lava.

Escape from the Spirit World: Kyoshi's Story

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Kyoshi defies the Earth King's orders to violently stop a peasant revolution, but her peaceful solution—creating the Dai Li—will haunt her successors for many years.

A seated Earth King in green, with a long white beard, is confronted by a standing Avatar Kyoshi.
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The Era of Avatar Roku

The Avatar and The Fire Lord

Avatar: The Last Airbender S3 E6

Friends since childhood, Avatar Roku and Prince Sozin grow apart; Roku masters the elements and falls in love, while Sozin becomes obsessed with conquest and chooses it over the Avatar with deadly consequences.

A young Avatar Roku and Prince Sozin sit on the floor, facing each other in a dimly lit room.

The Reckoning of Roku

A young Avatar Roku undertakes a secret mission at the request of Crown Prince Sozin, only to discover hidden agendas and catastrophic danger on a remote island with the help of his new friend Gyatso.

An ink brush painting of Avatar Roku with a resolute expression and a clenched fist, in front of a rocky landscape featuring clouds and birds.

Escape from the Spirit World: Roku's Story

Avatar: The Last Airbender

As a young man, Roku impatiently tries to master the Avatar State by harnessing the energy of the winter solstice, but the effort backfires and causes chaos on Crescent Island.

Illustration of Avatar Roku with a stern expression, glowing eyes, and a topknot hairstyle, set against a fiery background.
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The Era of Avatar Aang

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Season 1

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The long-lost Avatar, Aang, is found in an iceberg by siblings Katara and Sokka. Aang learns he’s the last of the Air Nomads and has only months to stop a war waged by the Fire Nation for 100 years; he must master all four elements to save the world.

Aang strikes a waterbending pose, with blue tinted profiles of Katara and Sokka in the background. Water swirls around Aang as he focuses.

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Season 2

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Aang and friends roam the Earth Kingdom to find an earthbending master while trying to liberate the cities of Ba Sing Se and Omashu. Aang’s nemesis Prince Zuko begins a journey of self-discovery, as his sister Azula takes over hunting for the Avatar.

Aang earthbends, sending rocks flying, with a large, translucent image of Toph smiling proudly in the background.

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Katara & The Pirates' Silver

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Katara is separated from the team during a Fire Nation ambush and finds herself allying with river pirates, while Aang, his new earthbending master Toph, and Sokka search for her and try to help a Fire Nation soldier see the light about the war.

Katara waterbends confidently at the prow of a wooden boat with frothy waves swellling around her.

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Escape from the Spirit World

Avatar: The Last Airbender

As his mortal form struggles to recover from Azula’s attack, Aang races against time to reconnect with his past lives in the Spirit World and learn how to master the Avatar State.

The glowing spirit of Princess Yue floats on a dark background.

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Season 3

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Team Avatar infiltrates the Fire Nation, hoping to paralyze its armies before Sozin’s Comet can enable Fire Lord Ozai to win the war. But unlikely allies will have to emerge – and Aang must figure out how to beat Ozai without killing him.

Aang firebends with his feet, with a large, translucent image of Zuko looking serious in the background.

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Suki, Alone

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Caught by Azula and locked up in the unescapable Fire Nation prison of Boiling Rock, Suki of the Kyoshi Warriors starts a secret garden – and an open rebellion – among its inmates.

Suki practices a warrior stance wearing a prisoner uniform in a stone cell, a glowing apparition of Avatar Kyoshi behind her mirroring the same stance.

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The Promise

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The Hundred Year War is over, but Aang and Zuko clash over tactics while trying to solve the problem of Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom. Meanwhile, Toph opens the world’s first metalbending academy—but her students struggle to learn.

Aang in a defensive stance holding his staff, surrounded by Zuko, Sokka, Katara, Toph and Momo.

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The Rift

Avatar: The Last Airbender

While seeking to honor a long-forgotten Air Nomad festival devoted to Avatar Yangchen, Aang discovers a refinery operating on sacred land — and run by Toph’s estranged father! The revelation reawakens the anger of an ancient guardian spirit.

Toph stands earthbending with a mischevious expression, surrounded by Ang airbending, Katara and Sokka atop a rock pillar, and students learning Earthbending.

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Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Toph is busy running her metalbending academies — but she’s bored! When Sokka and Suki’s attempt to entertain her flops, she sneaks out to an underground Earth Rumble tournament to feel that old feeling — and discovers another rare form of bending.

Toph stands with hands raised in front of an Earth Kingdom style courtyard and buildings, three students in earthbending stance behind her.

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Smoke & Shadow

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Bent on restoring Ozai to the throne, a rebel group seizes on a strange epidemic of abductions in the Fire Nation capital to undermine Fire Lord Zuko. Team Avatar must venture into the secretive Dragonbone Catacombs to solve the mystery.

Azula bends lightning with a fierce expression, with Suki, Aang, Mai and Zuko appearing around her in fighting stances.

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Azula in The Spirit Temple

Avatar: The Last Airbender

On the run again as she keeps trying to destabilize Fire Lord Zuko, Azula comes across a forest temple tended by a strange solitary monk, and is oddly compelled to confront her past.

Azula strides warily into a dark room while bending blue fire to illuminate her way, mist floating across the floor.

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North & South

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Returning to the South Pole, Katara and Sokka find their village rebuilt in the image of the Northern Water Tribe. But not everyone favors the reuniting of North and South — and dark forces emerge to drag the Earth King into the conflict.

Katara and Sokka stand proudly in winter Water Tribe outfits, with Aang and Toph in layered clothing in flying fighting stances behind them.

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Imbalance

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The small settlement of Cranefish Town has become a sprawling, rough-and-tumble hub of industry — and foreshadowing its future as Republic City, it’s facing a huge bender vs. nonbender conflict. It’s up to Team Avatar to set things right.

Aang flying with his glider beside a flying Appa carrying Sokka, Katara and Toph, over brick rooftops and factory towers.

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The Bounty Hunter & the Tea Brewer

Avatar: The Last Airbender

When his tea supply dries up, Uncle Iroh finds himself captured by a familiar face – the bounty hunter June. But June’s client is a vengeful figure from Iroh’s past, and the chase turns into a team-up.

Bounty hunter June and her shirshu Nyla stand seriously behind Iroh holding a steaming cup of tea.

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Ashes of the Academy

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Kiyi, Zuko's half-sister, joins the strict Royal Fire Academy, causing him concern. When the new headmistress raises doubts, Zuko assigns Mai to guide her. Can Mai protect Kiyi, or will the academy’s harsh ways lead her down Azula’s path?

Zuko, Mai, and Kiyi stand in front of a temple. Zuko looks serious, Mai has her arms crossed, and Kiyi stands determinedly with a smile on her face.
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The Era of Avatar Korra

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Republic City Hustle

The Legend of Korra

Orphaned brothers Mako and Bolin are tired of living on the streets. Then their daily hustle collecting sports bets brings them a chance to find a home – and to rescue a fire-ferret who’s in way more trouble than them!

Bolin smiles and waves while Mako looks serious with a red scarf. They stand before a brown, wooden door.

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Season 1

The Legend of Korra

Journeying to bustling Republic City to begin her airbending training, Avatar Korra discovers the sport of professional Pro-bending – and the dangerous anti-bending rebels known as the Equalists!

Korra throws a punch with a determined expression, with Mako, Asami and Bolin in fighting stances behind her.

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Season 2

The Legend of Korra

Korra returns to the South Pole to learn the ways of the spirits – only to be caught up in a civil war brewing between the Water Tribes, and the reemergence of the most dangerous dark spirit of all time.

Korra raises her hands in a bending stance with a stream of light circling her, the spirits Rava and Vatu in the background.

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Season 3

The Legend of Korra

In the wake of the spectacular phenomenon known as Harmonic Convergence, a new Air Nation is formed — and Korra must confront a new opponent, the secret society of the Red Lotus.

Korra stands with a serious expression holding a staff in front of sprawling building complex atop a mountain, her hair streaming in the wind.

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Season 4

The Legend of Korra

Emerging from a three-year journey of healing after defeating the Red Lotus, Korra reunites with her Team Avatar as the regime of the Earth Empire – led by metalbending master Kuvira — threatens to attack Republic City.

Korra with hair cropped in a bob style stands in front of a cloudy city skyline and a bright spirit portal beaming light into the sky.

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Turf Wars

The Legend of Korra

As Republic City copes with a flood of Earth Kingdom refugees, the ruthless new leader of the Triple Threats moves to dominate the city’s criminal triads. Korra and Asami must cut their Spirit World vacation short and restore balance.

Asami and Korra gleefully running through a lush green valley landscape, with a dragon bird spirit in the sky behind them.

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Ruins of the Empire

The Legend of Korra

On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom’s future is endangered by its past. Even as she stands trial for her crimes, Kuvira may be Team Avatar’s best hope for bringing down a renegade commander who’s got brainwashing tech.

Korra sits atop a metal vehicle with Kuvira, Mako, Asami and Bolin standing behind her. Torn green Earth Empire flags flutter in the wind.

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The Mystery of Penquan Island

The Legend of Korra

Mako and Bolin travel to Penquan Island to solve a missing persons case tied to their mother. With uncooperative locals and buried family secrets, the brothers must navigate obstacles to uncover the truth—even if it means confronting their own past.

Close-ups of Mako and Bolin appear in a dark, stormy sky in front of a burning photo of their family and above a fire nation ship.