Avatar: The Final Airbender turns 20 years outdated on Feb. 21, 2025. So what higher option to have a good time than with information of a sequel collection?
As reported by Selection, Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios introduced on Feb. 20 {that a} new Avatar present, titled Avatar: Seven Havens, has been greenlit. The 2D animated collection, headed up by Avatar creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, is at the moment in manufacturing, and can span 26 half-hour episodes over the course of two seasons (or “books”).
What’s Avatar: Seven Havens about?
Avatar: Seven Havens follows the Earth Avatar who comes after Korra, which means we’ll need to say goodbye to beloved Legend of Korra characters like Korra, Asami, and Tenzin. It has been over 10 years because the finale, however I am nonetheless not prepared!
Based mostly on Seven Havens‘ official logline, the 4 Nations have modified drastically since we final left them, because the present is about in “a world shattered by a devastating cataclysm.” That is proper, we’re an Avatar-style apocalypse!
The remainder of the logline reads:
Mashable High Tales
A younger Earthbender discovers she’s the brand new Avatar after Korra – however on this harmful period, that title marks her as humanity’s destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by each human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin should uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens earlier than civilization’s final strongholds collapse.
There’s already a lot to unpack right here. What is that this cataclysm? Did Korra have one thing to do with it, main humanity to despise the Avatar? And what are the Seven Havens? Might they be the brand new identify for a fractured 4 Nations?
However the tidbit that stands out most from this description is the thought of an Avatar with a twin. This idea is not new to the world of Avatar: Randy Ribay’s novel The Reckoning of Roku reveals that Roku had a twin brother who died after they had been younger. However since Seven Havens‘ Avatar’s twin remains to be alive, the upcoming collection might supply an thrilling twist on the Avatar dynamic.
Might Avatar: Seven Havens give us twin Avatars?
There are just a few methods Seven Havens might strategy an Avatar with the dual. The primary might be just like the Katara-Sokka dynamic from The Final Airbender, the place one sibling is a bender and the opposite sibling just isn’t. How would realizing your sister is essentially the most highly effective bender on the earth have an effect on your sense of self-worth and your relationship together with her?
However one other strategy Seven Havens would possibly take might pull from Avatar lore launched in The Legend of Korra. In Season 2, the collection reveals that an Avatar’s powers come from the Avatar Spirit Raava, a light-weight spirit who fused with Wan, the first-ever Avatar.
Raava’s darkish counterpart, Vaatu, fused with the villainous Unalaq throughout Season 2’s climactic battle, briefly making a Darkish Avatar. He initially destroyed Raava, however due to some religious intervention from Jinora, Raava was reborn throughout the Darkish Avatar Spirit, and Korra rejoined together with her after defeating Unalaq and Vaatu for good.
That is numerous spirit-heavy lore, nevertheless it principally boils all the way down to the truth that just a little little bit of Vaatu remains to be contained throughout the Avatar Spirit. So whereas Raava alone cannot cut up into two our bodies when twins are born, there is a chance that Vaatu might cut up from Raava, giving us two Avatars: One darkish, one mild. That opens up a complete new can of worms for Avatar to discover. Might these twins be allies, regardless of the diametrically opposed spirits? Might having one among every type of Avatar deliver stability to a doomed world, or will it solely trigger extra chaos?
Like everybody’s beloved Foaming Mouth Man, I am at the moment freaking out in regards to the potentialities, and I’m prepared for no matter Avatar: Seven Havens brings.
