Kuruk was a go with the flow kind of Avatar. He was born in the Southern Water Tribe. He was a show- off, challenge random people to Agni Kai! But his carefree lifestyle led to his demise. He changed his ways to marry the love of his life, who was captured by Koh the face stealer on the day of their wedding. He spent the rest of his long life, longer than Kyoshi's even, hunting her.
Avatar Korra
Avatar Aang
Avatar Roku
Avatar Kyoshi
Avatar Kuruk
Avatar Yangchen
And...
Avatar Wan. All are great. All are powerful. Flameo, hotman!
Kyoshi was one of the most remarkable avatars. Born on a remote Earth Kingdom village, later named in her honor, she grew up to discover she was the avatar. Her greatest obstacle was Chin The Conqueror. He threatened to take over the world. When facing Kyoshi, he prepared for battle, but Kyoshi instead bent rock and lava and detached her village from the mainland, creating Kyoshi Island. Chin, uh, got too close and, uh, fell to his doom, and all, so that took care of that.
Kyoshi designated the Kyoshi Warriors(see previous post) and the Dai Li. She lived to be Two Hundred and Something Years Old.
Avatar Roku was the Fire Nation Avatar before Aang. He was best friends with Fire Lord Sozin, back when he was merely Prince Sozin. They had the same birthday, so they shared a party. On their sixteenth birthday, however, the Fire Sages showed up. "Is my father dead?" Asked Prince Sozin. "No, we're not here for you, we are here to announce the identity of the new avatar. We are her to serve you, Avatar Roku." Thus, Roku left to learn airbending alongside Aang's future teacher and friend, Monk Gyatso.
Returning home to Fire Lord Sozin, he married his longtime crush. After the wedding, his friend pulled him aside to speak with him about attacking the Earth Kingdom, to set up colonies, to take over the world. Between the two of them, Sozin claimed, they were unstoppable. Roku was appalled at the thought and told him not to do it. When Sozin did, Roku confronted him. "How dare you speak to your Fire Lord this way?" Sozin hissed. "Your loyalty is to he Fire Nation first, and anything else makes you a traitor!" After a brief scuffle, Roku spared Sozin, but warned that one more action toward war and Roku would kill him.
One night, a volcano on Roku's island blast, and all the villagers fled except Roku who stayed to stop it. Sozin flew on his dragon to help. Right when the poisonous gas was too much Roku decided they must leave. He reached out to Sozin who said, " Without you, my dreams could become a reality." He leaped onto his dragon and fled, leaving Roku to die with his dragon Fang. A few minutes later at the Southern Air Temple, Aang was born.
When Aang grew angry when it seemed he would have to kill the Fire Lord, he disappeared onto a mysterious island which even his past lives could not recognize. When he asks his coast lives for guidance they say he must be decisive, give justice, and more things that boiled down to one thing: Execution. Then he finds out that the island is a giant lion- turtle. It gives him wisdom and introduces a new technique, Energy bending, which gives Aang the power to take Ozai's bending, to avoid killing him.
In The Legend Of Korra, the Lion-Turtles are introduced as the source of all bending, conflicting with ATLA's claim that the original benders and source of bending was: The moon, Badger moles, dragons, and sky bison. The turtles would give bending to humans venturing into the Spirit World, and take it back upon their return.
