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Aang and Appa are found at the south pole by two siblings from the Southern Water Tribe: Katara and Sokka. Katara is the last living waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe, as the Fire Nation has been systematically raiding the ever-shrinking village and killing any benders there. Sokka is a non-bender, but is good warrior and strategist.

Aang's awakening sends out a beam of light into the sky that is seen by Fire Prince Zuko and his uncle, Iroh. Zuko was burned on his face by his father, Fire Lord Ozai, and banished from the Fire Nation until he could capture the Avatar - an impossible task at the time, as everyone though the Avatar was long dead and the cycle broken. All of this was punishment for Zuko speaking out of turn during a war meeting, at the goddamn age of 13. Iroh's been watching over Zuko in his exile for two years now. Iroh was in line to take the throne over Ozai, but the death of his son during an attack on the Earth Kingdom left him despondent and ineligible to rule. It also made him into a better person, and he's trying to teach Zuko how to be good. Zuko, meanwhile, is a frustrated, obsessed teenager trying to restore his "honor".