If you're an earth bender and you lost a leg, wouldn't you be able to bend yourself a prosthetic made of earth? One that could actually articulate, unlike a peg-leg.
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Calling crystal-benders right now.
Don't pick that phone up before it rings, cuz I'm fucking calling it.
Wait, is this the new avatar in the foreground? Are we* getting a disabled avatar? Hell yeah!!
i feel it's kinda telling that my immediate first thought was "huh? but toph- ohh right, not the avatar"
did aang ever pull off anything on the scale that toph did? that whole "holding up an entire fucking underground library" thing feels like it was only really topped by kyoshi splitting off her island
That background character is definitely Airbender coded
Looks like Airbender garb remodeled after the pro bending armor from Korra.
I'm guessing this is a guide from the white lotus.
the artwork style is feeling very Moebius
In these worlds that we love i always think it would be cool to get a spinoff from the perspective of normies, too.
An anthology series where each episode, or portion of an episode, is just a small personal story set in the a avatar universe should be take nice and fun. Think "The Tales of Ba Sing Se", but about ground level events of citizens of different nations and times, focusing on a new, usually unrelated character in each episode. It would be a great way to world build without needing an avatar to be around all the time. It wouldn't have to be exclusively about non-benders, but should always be about people doing good.
Just simple stuff like: A sheep-monkey herder in the outskirts of the Earth kingdom defending her flock from hunting rat-wolves. Then she rescues a newborn sheep-monkey that gets washed away in a river during the attack. It ends with her sitting vigilant on a grassy hill, the newborn asleep on her lap, it's mother napping at her side, and surrounded by the rest of her flock also sleeping, secure under her watchful eye.
I love the giant monkey cat. She rides it around like Naga in a leaked animatic.
I also have a theory (not just on appearance but a leaked casting call) that she's of Guru Pathik's heritage, perhaps Eastern Earth Kingdom? Pre Cataclysm, the coast should be tropical and typhoon-prone, aka an east asian feel. Not sure where this city is though... maybe the climate changed, or maybe it's somewhere else.
The only thing I can't make out is what kind of era it takes place in.
Aang was set in Feudal Japan, Korra was in the industrial revolution.
I'd love for them to go back to feudal times, but I know that wouldn't make sense.
It's post-apocalyptic, from some kind of spiritual disaster.
I am 100% pumped to see where this goes. I don't care if they do what they always do with 99% of the villains and completely cop out on their ideals at the end, I just wanna see post apocalyptic Avatar.
I’m surprised they are able to use the Avatar name again. They had to drop it for Korra due to James Cameron.
I was also hoping the show would have dual avatars as the twins, each with two elements. It would solve some of the story roadblocks of them having to find reasons why they can’t just go into the avatar state all the time. Would have been cool if the avatar state only worked when both of them are next to each other.
They only dropped the Avatar title in the US. Everywhere else, it was Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Might wind up with the same thing here. James Cameron also might only have the rights to the Avatar name for movies and not television.
I was also hoping the show would have dual avatars as the twins, each with two elements.
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It does. Allegedly they are seperated, one is 'picked,' wealthy and trained with a more Korra-like personality, the other is poor and 'lost' with a more Aang-like personality. But we don't know much beyond that.
I really liked this too, but someone talked me out of this idea for a fic, actually. The reasoning being that this is the Earth Avatar Cycle, so it would be almost canon breaking for one to not have earthbending. They wouldn't go through the stages of learning each element, it would kinda throw out the "four elements" synergy and fights and lore. They reminded me that the trope of twins being very close and "two parts of a whole" actually irritates many RL twins (hence's Ty Lee's character).
So my take is twins that each have four elements, but inclinations to two each, as well as yin yang kind of personality conflicts.
But two people can't have four elements. Where is the second spirit coming from?
Presumably, Vaatu, who can be reborn inside Raava as Raava was Vaatu.
When will it release?
Oof, I'm not really feeling the art style, seems a little cluttered. I get that it needs to adapt to the contemporary landscape of animation though I was hoping they stayed with the more grounded look of the previous series. I'll still watch, hoping the story is really good.
It's just concept art. The show's style will be different, see the original LoK promo:

Or the early sketches for characters: https://old.reddit.com/r/legendofkorra/comments/j9vw8j/korra_book_1_concepts/
That said, I love this promo. The full res version looks much better, if you havent' seen it: https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Aurora_Press1_06_04_25_Horizontal-1.jpg
I mean, I don't hate it and I appreciate the references it's pulling from. This particular image is just doing too much for me; and I get it, it's introducing us to a whole bunch of new info and is concept art; but I wish it was more subtle. Just my personal taste, no biggie. I have a lot of love for the stories of this universe, I watched when the og show debuted and I'm aware that the new stuff is not gonna cater completely to me, regardless I'll be seated.
Looks good but not hand drawn, sadly.
Also, the shrinkflation hits hard this time. That's half the total runtime of the previous shows.
Looks good but not hand drawn, sadly.
Hm? I'd bet it's drawn by one of the co-creators. Check out their Tumblrs, they draw stuff like this all the time for fun.
Here is the full press image (recommend opening it in a tab, it's big):
https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Aurora_Press1_06_04_25_Horizontal-1.jpg

Thanks for the link to the full press image, Bruce! I grabbed a version of the image to post that I thought was the HD one without the Comic Con logo, but apparently it wasnt the best one out there.

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