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** ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow established a warlord named Toz, who ended several messy clan battles by unifying the Fire Islands under his aegis. This is brought up several times in ''Shadow'', as the clans are still jostling for control and Fire Lord Zoryu looks to Toz's journals for ideas.
** Yangchen cites her fight with General Old Iron, the subject of an extended flashback in ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRift and her first mission as the Avatar, as an example of her [[spoiler: favoring the humans over the spirits, which led to their eventual corruptions and forced Kuruk to fight them off]].
** Rangi's ''daofei'' makeup is described as being based off a river spirit worshiped near Jang Hui-- in other words, the Painted Lady.
** Yangchen cites her fight with General Old Iron, the subject of an extended flashback in ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRift and her first mission as the Avatar, as an example of her [[spoiler: favoring the humans over the spirits, which led to their eventual corruptions and forced Kuruk to fight them off]].
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** ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow'' established a warlord named Toz, who ended several messy clan battles by unifying the Fire Islands under his aegis. This is brought up several times in ''Shadow'', as the clans are still jostling for control and Fire Lord Zoryu looks to Toz's journals for ideas.
** Yangchen cites her fight with General Old Iron, the subject of an extended flashback inComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRift ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRift'' and her first mission as the Avatar, as an example of her [[spoiler: favoring the humans over the spirits, which led to their eventual corruptions and forced Kuruk to fight them off]].
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** Though the color is different, Rangi bends white fire briefly near the end of the book. Bending different colored flame is something only done by Azula and later Zuko come Smoke ''Smoke and Shadow.Shadow''.
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* MercyRewarded: In ''The Rise of Kyoshi'', Kyoshi spared Governor Te Sihung's life on the condition that he improve himself as a governor. Here, it's shown he took her warning to heart and has improved living conditions in Zigan.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Chaejin is obviously power hungry and doesn't care if some of the common people will die in order for him to gain the throne, but he does genuinely believe that his becoming Fire Lord will help the Fire Nation. Zoryu wants to keep the peace and prevent a civil war...[[spoiler:and is willing to kill a 'false Yun' and wipe out the Saowon clan to do it, even though he ''knows'' they didn't actually collaborate with the real Yun.]]
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Chaejin is obviously power hungry and doesn't care if some of the common people will die in order for him to gain the throne, but he does genuinely believe that the spirits are opposed to his brother's rule (which, considering the world they live in, is not an unfair assumption) and that his becoming Fire Lord will help the Fire Nation. Zoryu wants to keep the peace and prevent a civil war...[[spoiler:and is willing to kill a 'false Yun' and wipe out the Saowon clan to do it, even though he ''knows'' they didn't actually collaborate with the real Yun.]]
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Chaejin is obviously power hungry and doesn't care if some of the common people will die in order for him to gain the throne, but he does genuinely believe that his becoming Fire Lord will help the Fire Nation. Zoryu wants to keep the peace and prevent a civil war...[[spoiler:and is willing to kill a 'false Yun' and wipe out the Saowon clan to do it, even though he ''knows'' they didn't actually collaborate with the real Yun.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: The Saowon clan as a whole suffer this as the book goes on. They start of as an entire clan of {{Smug Snake}}s who use their political influence and [[PassiveAggressiveCombat backhanded jibes]] to stoke the flames of a CivilWar while continuously insulting the main characters in someway. [[spoiler:Then Kyoshi, who is led to believe that they are working with Yun, holds Chaejin and Huazo hostage and preforms a HighAltitudeInterrogation on them both that almost leads to her killing them. Afterwards Zoryu, who has been undermined by them all book, uses this opportunity to turn the Saowon clan into scapegoats by having a fake Yun claim he was hired by them to make Chaejin the Fire Lord. The clan is arrested, left dishonored, and the only reason they weren't purged is because Kyoshi made sure Zoryu wouldn't to it.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: The Saowon clan as a whole suffer this as the book goes on. They start of off as an entire clan of {{Smug Snake}}s who use their political influence and [[PassiveAggressiveCombat backhanded jibes]] to stoke the flames of a CivilWar while continuously insulting the main characters in someway. various ways. [[spoiler:Then Kyoshi, who is led to believe that they are working with Yun, holds Chaejin and Huazo hostage and preforms performs a HighAltitudeInterrogation on them both that almost leads to her killing them. Afterwards Zoryu, who has been undermined by them all for the whole book, uses this opportunity to turn the Saowon clan into scapegoats by having a fake Yun claim he was hired by them to make Chaejin the Fire Lord. The clan is arrested, left dishonored, and the only reason they weren't purged is because Kyoshi made sure Zoryu wouldn't to do it.]]
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* 100PercentApprovalRating: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] [[spoiler: The entire world holds up Yangchen as the gold standard of an Avatar while not having very high opinions on Kuruk, but near the end of the novel it's revealed Kuruk made great sacrifices, at the cost of his own reputation, to preserve Yangchen's legacy since he, too, looked up to her. If the world actually had known about how Yangchen's favouring of humans over spirits caused multiple Dark Spirit invasions that Kuruk secretly dealt with at the cost of his own health, the overall picture might have been more nuanced. Kyoshi herself certainly has a higher opinion of Kuruk after learning this.]]
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* 100PercentApprovalRating: HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] [[spoiler: The entire world holds up Yangchen as the gold standard of an Avatar while not having very high opinions on Kuruk, but near the end of the novel it's revealed Kuruk made great sacrifices, at the cost of his own reputation, to preserve Yangchen's legacy since he, too, looked up to her. If the world actually had known about how Yangchen's favouring of humans over spirits caused multiple Dark Spirit invasions that Kuruk secretly dealt with at the cost of his own health, the overall picture might have been more nuanced. Kyoshi herself certainly has a higher opinion of Kuruk after learning this.]]
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* 100PercentAdorationRating: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] [[spoiler: The entire world holds up Yangchen as the gold standard of an Avatar while not having very high opinions on Kuruk, but near the end of the novel it's revealed Kuruk made great sacrifices, at the cost of his own reputation, to preserve Yangchen's legacy since he, too, looked up to her. If the world actually had known about how Yangchen's favouring of humans over spirits caused multiple Dark Spirit invasions that Kuruk secretly dealt with at the cost of his own health, the overall picture might have been more nuanced. Kyoshi herself certainly has a higher opinion of Kuruk after learning this.]]
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* 100PercentAdorationRating: 100PercentApprovalRating: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] [[spoiler: The entire world holds up Yangchen as the gold standard of an Avatar while not having very high opinions on Kuruk, but near the end of the novel it's revealed Kuruk made great sacrifices, at the cost of his own reputation, to preserve Yangchen's legacy since he, too, looked up to her. If the world actually had known about how Yangchen's favouring of humans over spirits caused multiple Dark Spirit invasions that Kuruk secretly dealt with at the cost of his own health, the overall picture might have been more nuanced. Kyoshi herself certainly has a higher opinion of Kuruk after learning this.]]
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* 100PercentAdorationRating: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] [[spoiler: The entire world holds up Yangchen as the gold standard of an Avatar while not having very high opinions on Kuruk, but near the end of the novel it's revealed Kuruk made great sacrifices, at the cost of his own reputation, to preserve Yangchen's legacy since he, too, looked up to her. If the world actually had known about how Yangchen's favouring of humans over spirits caused multiple Dark Spirit invasions that Kuruk secretly dealt with at the cost of his own health, the overall picture might have been more nuanced. Kyoshi herself certainly has a higher opinion of Kuruk after learning this.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: The Saowon clan as a whole suffer this as the book goes on. They start of as an entire clan of {{Smug Snake}}s who use their political influence and [[PassiveAggressiveCombat backhanded jibes]] to stoke the flames of a CivilWar while continuously insulting the main characters in someway. [[spoiler:Then Kyoshi, who is led to believe that they are working with Yun, holds Chaejin and Huazo hostage and preforms a HighAltitudeInterrogation on them both that almost leads to her killing them. Afterwards Zoryu, who has been undermined by them all book, uses this opportunity to turn the Saowon clan into scapegoats by having a fake Yun claim he was hired by them to make Chaejin the Fire Lord. The clan is arrested, left dishonored, and the only reason they weren't purged is because Kyoshi made sure Zoryu wouldn't to it.]]
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* TragicDream: Both Kyoshi and Rangi want Yun to come back and recapture the simpler moments of their earlier years with Rangi in particular mentioning at one point in the novel that she wants the three of them to return to the mansion in Yokoya and enjoy some of Auntie Mui's cooking again. [[spoiler:By the end of the book it becomes clear that Yun is too far gone and his desire for revenge has made him to different from the boy they once knew forcing Kyoshi and Rangi to fight him to the death. After he dies they can only cry at the loss of their friend and what could have been.]]
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* VillainTeamUp: By the midway point of the book Kyoshi believes that Yun and the Saowom clan are working together with the Saowon's sheltering Yun and providing him with the resources necessary for his revenge while Yun helps undermine Zoryu's rule and prop up Chaejin as a superior Fire Lord. [[spoiler:Turns out though this is subverted; Yun is acting entirely on his own to hurt Zoryu because of his resentment towards his friend not needing him anymore and the Saowon are just using Yun's actions to push their own agenda forward, which Kyoshi realizes after she interrogates Chaejin and Huazo and finds out that they genuinely don't know where Yun is]].
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Kyoshi keeps forgetting she's able to waterbend; but uses a rather advanced waterbending art to slay Yun and end his rampage.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Kyoshi keeps forgetting she's able to waterbend; but uses a rather advanced waterbending art to slay Yun and end his rampage. Bonus points for the fact that Atuat had warned Kyoshi earlier in the book of that exact thing happening if she used to much power.]]
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Towards the end of the book Kyoshi is going to visit an island important to Yangchen. She gets off the boat and swims there the old fashion way for a while before thinking of waterbending herself there.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Towards the end of Early on in the book when Kyoshi is going to visit passes by an island important to Yangchen. She Yangchen she gets hit by a violent vision and almost drowns and, as the narration notes, it takes her an embarrassingly long time before she remembers she can just waterbend to safety. Likewise towards the end of the book, when Kyoshi decides to visit said island again, she gets off the boat and swims there the old fashion way for a while before thinking of waterbending herself there.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Hei-Ran tells Kyoshi point-blank that [[spoiler:if Yun kills her, it's fine, because it will give Kyoshi a shot at killing him in return, and that she deserves it for the hell she's put Kyoshi, Yun, and Rangi through, basically saying that she deserves to join Jianzhu, Kuruk, and Kelsang in death]]. Kyoshi neither accepts nor rejects this, but [[spoiler:in the end, takes the time to get Hei-Ran treated and saves her life, rather than pursuing Yun]].
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* HonorBeforeReason: HonorBeforeReason:
** Hei-Ran tells Kyoshi point-blank that [[spoiler:if Yun kills her, it's fine, because it will give Kyoshi a shot at killing him in return, and that she deserves it for the hell she's put Kyoshi, Yun, and Rangi through, basically saying that she deserves to join Jianzhu, Kuruk, and Kelsang in death]]. Kyoshi neither accepts nor rejects this, but [[spoiler:in the end, takes the time to get Hei-Ran treated and saves her life, rather than pursuing Yun]].
** Rather humorously averted later on in the book when Kyoshi dives into the ocean to the wreckage of Avatar Yangchen's island in order to contact Kuruk and tells her crew of Fire National fishermen not to follow her no matter what. When they to retrieve her after she almost drowns she tells them she told them not to follow her and the captain says that the order was obviously stupid so they weren't going to follow it. Kyoshi dryly notes to herself that if more people in the Fire Nation had that level of common sense she wouldn't be in most of the situations she's stuck in for the book.
** Hei-Ran tells Kyoshi point-blank that [[spoiler:if Yun kills her, it's fine, because it will give Kyoshi a shot at killing him in return, and that she deserves it for the hell she's put Kyoshi, Yun, and Rangi through, basically saying that she deserves to join Jianzhu, Kuruk, and Kelsang in death]]. Kyoshi neither accepts nor rejects this, but [[spoiler:in the end, takes the time to get Hei-Ran treated and saves her life, rather than pursuing Yun]].
** Rather humorously averted later on in the book when Kyoshi dives into the ocean to the wreckage of Avatar Yangchen's island in order to contact Kuruk and tells her crew of Fire National fishermen not to follow her no matter what. When they to retrieve her after she almost drowns she tells them she told them not to follow her and the captain says that the order was obviously stupid so they weren't going to follow it. Kyoshi dryly notes to herself that if more people in the Fire Nation had that level of common sense she wouldn't be in most of the situations she's stuck in for the book.
* IdenticalStranger: After bringing out [[spoiler:a fake Yun to serve as a scapegoat who is actaully a Fire National citizen who looks near identical to the real thing except his eyes]] Zoryu points out to Kyoshi that peoples faces aren't as unique as they think they are (although he notes that there is probably no one on the planet who could masquerade as her). This truly gets brought into focus at the end of the book [[spoiler:when Kyoshi meets Avatar Yangchen who, aside from her tattoos, looks and acts similar to her mother Jesa.]]
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* ImColdSoCold:[[spoiler:Literal example. Kyoshi uses an advanced healing technique to drastically lower Yun's body temperature, freezing his heart and lungs solid and killing him]].
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** [[spoiler:Literal example. Kyoshi uses an advanced healing technique to drastically lower Yun's body temperature, freezing his heart and lungs solid and killing him]].
* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler:Jianzhu's mansion, which had been a major setting throughout the first book, is almost completely demolished in the FinalBattle with Yun, symbolically closing the book on the days of Kyoshi's youth before she became the Avatar.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Yangchen, despite her amazing reputation, ended up favoring humans moreso than spirits, which made many of them dark and violent in her time and into Kuruk's. Due to Kuruk's own depression and desire not to involve his friends, Kuruk would spend his life beating down and extinguishing spirits at the cost of his own life. Worse, the problem rear it's head during Aang's time, with General Old Iron returning to destroy Cranefish Town, and would be present come [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's]] time in which her uncle is able to find a way to pacify and purify dark spirits.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Yangchen, despite her amazing reputation, ended up favoring humans moreso than spirits, which made many of them dark and violent in her time and into Kuruk's. Due to Kuruk's own depression and desire not to involve his friends, Kuruk would spend his life beating down and extinguishing spirits at the cost of his own life. Worse, the problem rear rears it's head during Aang's time, with General Old Iron returning to destroy Cranefish Town, and would be present come [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's]] time in which her uncle is able to find a way to pacify and purify dark spirits.]]
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* WeNeedADistraction: Kyoshi realizes to her horror that the riot in North Chung-Ling is the perfect cover for [[spoiler:Yun to try and assassinate Hei-Ran]]. Indeed the entire riot was just to keep Kyoshi and co distracted [[spoiler:so Yun could complete his deed.]]
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* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler: The FinalBattle in the series between Kyoshi, Rangi and Yun, takes place in Jianzhu's mansion in Yokoya where the three became friends and the books truly began.]]
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* PutOnABus: Kelsang's Sky Bison Pengpeng is stated to have retired after her adventure with Kyoshi in the last book and is now taking care of some calves of her own. Now Kyoshi is using Jinpa's bison Yingyong as her mode of transportation.
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** Hei-Ran having to go to the Northern Water Tribe to heal after she was near fatally poisoned last book and still showing signs of physical weakness two years later, including in her bending, brings to mind [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's]] own struggles to get back on her feet after her mercury poisoning.
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** Hei-Ran returns in this book after spending two years recovering from her near fatal poisoning however she isn't completely back on her feet. She needs a cane to walk, she has [[DiseaseBleach visibly aged since the last time she appeared]], and she can barely firebend anymore. Much like in [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's time]] it doesn't matter how strong you are, or how skilled the healer, it can take years for someone to recover from such a debilitating injury.
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This is the finale of the original plan for the series but the future of it remains uncertain as both books have gotten good reviews and sold very well.
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* NarniaTime: Time seems to work differently in the Spirit World. [[spoiler: Yun has no idea how long his fight with Father Glowworm lasts and is shocked to learn he was in the Spirit World for a week. Kyoshi is also able to see Kuruk's whole backstory and travel to Glowworm's swamp, while no more than a few minutes could have passed in the physical world before she drowned.]]
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* ForWantOfANail: Kyoshi confesses to Hei-Ran that she thinks everything would have gone better if she'd simply been able to ignite the ball of tinder that Hei-Ran tried to test her with in ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi''. If she'd been able to prove that she could firebend when everyone already knew she was an Earthbender, that would have conclusively proved she was the Avatar ''before'' Jianzhu resorted to asking Father Glowworm, and subsequently writing off Yun and Kelsang.
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* ForWantOfANail: Kyoshi confesses to Hei-Ran that she thinks everything would have gone better if she'd simply been able to ignite the ball of tinder that Hei-Ran tried to test her with in ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi''. If she'd been able to prove that she could firebend when everyone already knew she was an Earthbender, that would have conclusively proved she was the Avatar ''before'' Jianzhu resorted Avatar, and prevented the deaths of Kelsang and Lek, and of Yun being sacrificed to asking Father Glowworm, and subsequently writing off Yun and Kelsang.Glowworm.
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* EmpathicEnvironment: Literal example. The Spirit World reacts to one's emotions. Notably shown when huge [[BottomlessPit chasms]] are formed from [[spoiler: Yun's grief and Kyoshi's anger. Seeing that the damage Yun's emotions caused have not healed is what lets Kyoshi and Kuruk know that Yun has not let go of his pain.]]
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* UnableToCry: [[spoiler: After escaping the Spirit World, Yun has intense grief when he senses Kyoshi's Avatar spirit. He also happens to be dying of dehydration at the time, so he can't cry and is forced to bottle up his feelings. Unfortunately, this results in him expressing those feelings a little later in a [[DespairEventHorizon much more devastating way]].]]
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** Though the color is different, Rangi bends white fire briefly near the end of the book. Bending different colored flame is something only done by Azula and later Zuko come Smoke and Shadow.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Yangchen, despite her amazing reputation, ended up favoring humans moreso than spirits, which made many of them dark and violent in her time and into Kuruk's. Due to Kuruk's own depression and desire not to involve his friends, Kuruk would spend his life beating down and extinguishing spirits at the cost of his own life. Worse, the problem would be present come [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra's]] time in which her uncle is able to find a way to pacify and purify dark spirits.]]
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Kyoshi and Rangi are both very serious but they find it hilarious when Fire Lord Zoryu is just as intimidated by Hei-Ran as they are and she treats him no differently than she treats them.
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** At book's end, Kyoshi has come to the conclusion that she shouldn't get involved in political disputes any more. Judging by the events shown in "Avatar Day", where she didn't intervene during Chin the Conqueror's conquest, this is ALessonLearnedTooWell.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Kyoshi gives a hell of a one-liner right before she kills [[spoiler:Yun]].
-->'''Kyoshi:''' I'm sorry for saying you had to live with your pain. Because you ''won't.''
-->'''Kyoshi:''' I'm sorry for saying you had to live with your pain. Because you ''won't.''
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* MasterApprenticeChain: This gets referenced when [[spoiler: Yun kills Lu Beifong]], since by the formalities of martial arts, Lu Beifong is considered Yun's master, since he trained Jianzhu and Jianzhu trained Yun.
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Near the end of the book its revealed that, rather than just being the carefree Avatar he was interpreted as being from the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender original show]]'' Kuruk spent most of his life [[spoiler:secretly battling and killing various Dark Spirits that were created by Yangchen's favoritism towards humans. Kuruk's actions likely saved the world from being consumed by Dark Spirits but because of his shame over murdering spirits he deliberately kept the truth hidden from even his closest friends and became a hedonist as a form of self medication. This ends up being deconstructed as this led to the world believing that Kuruk was an unfit Avatar, unintentionally causing the major problems that plague the books, and leaving Kyoshi with a lot of resentment towards her predecessor, at least before she realizes the truth about him.]]
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Near the end of the book its it's revealed that, rather than just being the carefree Avatar he was interpreted as being from the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender original show]]'' Kuruk spent most of his life [[spoiler:secretly battling and killing various Dark Spirits that were created by Yangchen's favoritism towards humans. Kuruk's actions likely saved the world from being consumed by Dark Spirits but because of his shame over murdering spirits he deliberately kept the truth hidden from even his closest friends and became a hedonist as a form of self medication. This ends up being deconstructed as this led to the world believing that Kuruk was an unfit Avatar, unintentionally causing the major problems that plague the books, and leaving Kyoshi with a lot of resentment towards her predecessor, at least before she realizes the truth about him.]]
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Near the end of the book its revealed that, rather than just being the carefree Avatar he was interpreted as being from the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender original show]]'' Kuruk spend spent most of his life [[spoiler:secretly battling and killing various Dark Spirits that were created by Yangchen's favoritism towards humans. Kuruk's actions likely saved the world from being consumed by Dark Spirits but because of his shame over murdering spirits he deliberately kept the truth hidden from even his closest friends and became a hedonist as a form of self medication. This ends up being deconstructed as this led to the world believing that Kuruk was an unfit Avatar, unintentionally causing the major problems that plague the books, and leaving Kyoshi with a lot of resentment towards her predecessor, at least before she realizes the truth about him.]]
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Near the end of the book its revealed that, rather then just being the carefree Avatar he was interpreted as being from the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender original show]]'' Kuruk spend most of his life [[spoiler:secretly battling and killing various Dark Spirits that were created by Yangchen's favoritism towards humans. Kuruk's actions likely saved the world from being consumed by Dark Spirits but because of his shame over murdering spirits he deliberately kept the truth hidden from even his closest friends and became a hedonist as a form of self medication. This ends up being deconstructed as this led to the world believing that Kuruk was an unfit Avatar, unintentionally causing the major problems that plague the books, and leaving Kyoshi with a lot of resentment towards her predecessor, at least before she realizes the truth about him.]]
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Near the end of the book its revealed that, rather then than just being the carefree Avatar he was interpreted as being from the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender original show]]'' Kuruk spend most of his life [[spoiler:secretly battling and killing various Dark Spirits that were created by Yangchen's favoritism towards humans. Kuruk's actions likely saved the world from being consumed by Dark Spirits but because of his shame over murdering spirits he deliberately kept the truth hidden from even his closest friends and became a hedonist as a form of self medication. This ends up being deconstructed as this led to the world believing that Kuruk was an unfit Avatar, unintentionally causing the major problems that plague the books, and leaving Kyoshi with a lot of resentment towards her predecessor, at least before she realizes the truth about him.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Hei-Ran kneels with a knife, tells her daughter that the Fire Lord is her witness and Atuat is her second... she only [[spoiler:cuts off her topknot, but it is very reminiscent of a ritual suicide, where the second would have the duty of finishing off the principle so that their death throes don't become too indecorous]].
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Hei-Ran kneels with a knife, tells her daughter that the Fire Lord is her witness and Atuat is her second... she only [[spoiler:cuts off her topknot, but it is very reminiscent of a ritual suicide, where the second would have the duty of finishing off the principle principal so that their death throes don't become too indecorous]].
