Book 3 will introduce a Airbender villain
LOK will go through an edgier route of portraying Aang as a flawed father by introducing an illegitimate child, who will become the next Big Bad for season 3.- Confirmed, though Zaheer got his powers through the Harmonic Convergence and is seemingly unrelated to Aang.
Zaheer and his crew murdered Aang.
This explains why they're in high level prisons, why the White Lotus is involved, why Zuko is managing this case, and finally why Zuko said that the villains individually can bring down any bender. We might even see his death in this season.- Likely Jossed. They were in those prisons for attempting to kidnap Korra, which would preclude Aang being alive at this point. They might have killed him, but it would probably have been in an untraceable manner indistinct from the ravages of age, since neither Korra nor Tenzin hint at any foul play.
Book 3 will focus on Korra trying to reconnect to her past lives.
Maybe she even has to do it one by one.- On a related note... perhaps the Raava who was ripped from Korra's body is not permanently dead; merely shattered. Part of her was reborn through Vaatu, and book 3 will deal with Korra discovering that the other parts of Raava are scattered across both worlds and are slowly pulling together again; when the time comes, they will all reunite with the portion in Korra, restoring her access to all the past Avatars.
- I was thinking more along the lines of finding their spirits individually and reconnecting with them somehow.
- Jossed, regrettably.
Now that Vaatu's physical body/avatar have been destroyed and it's a given that he'll reappear, the logical conclusion would be a corruption that grows from within Raava and therefore Korra as well.
Alternatively... There is effectively a "Dark Avatar" Cycle now, and the darkness isn't inside Korra's Raava, but was reborn elsewhere
I mean, don't quote me on this, but Unalaq and Vaatu got fused just as Wan and Raava did. Therefor, they may be bonded "forever", for this lifetime and the next. As they were killed, with all the sparkles and stuff, it almost seemed the same as when Raava's left Wan's body and reincarnated into his next life.However, it could very well be that the dark cycle got destroyed that very moment, as Unalaq was transformed into that dark giant and it may count as being in a "dark avatar state" of sorts, so anything goes...If so, then the previous WMG could be a very disturbing possibility.- Alternatively, there would have been a Dark Avatar cycle had Unalaq not been killed in the Dark Avatar State.
Bolin and Korra will get together for real.
- Sorry. Bolin gets together with Opal instead.
Book 3 will be about the world trying to adjust after the huge change.
Confirmed. The name was explicitly chosen for that, among others. Book 3 will have some kind of religious/spiritual extremists as antagonists.
I mean, it would fit well within the Avatar-verse.- Zaheer seems to fit the bill.
- Didn't we already have that with Unalaq?
- Confirmed with the Red Lotus that Zaheer leads, which Unalaq happened to be a part of.
- Didn't we already have that with Unalaq?
Book 3 will be called Avatars.
As suggested above, it will involve Korra's attempt to reconnect with the avatars of the past.- Jossed. It was called "Change
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Book 3 will have more spirit antagonists.
Since Korra decided not to close the portals it will be easier for the more malevolent spirits who are just naturally evil without Vaatu's influence to enter the world to mess with things. Just like how spirits dominated the world 10,000 years ago when humanity had to survive on the Lion Turtles until Wan ultimately changed things.- Korra is going to eventually realize this, but as the Avatar, her biggest duty will be to prevent this sort of crap from happening. Or the Spirits are going to find out that with weapons and bending being a lot more commonplace, it's going to be a lot harder to hedge out the native humans.
- Jossed. The villains for the rest of the series were all mortal.
Book 3 will be called Metal
It's been said that Book 3 will focus on earthbending more. Maybe it will deal with the new technological world being one with the spiritual world again?- Jossed. It was called "Change."
- Though Korra WILL start learning Metalbending. (And possibly Bolin as well.)
- Note on Bolin: He tries to metalbend, but can't. He does get a different power though.
Mako will be a detective in Book 3 and he will partner up with an older detective who will act as a mentor for him
- Jossed.
Much of Book 3 will take place in Ba Sing Se
A lot of people are going to be very uncomfortable with spirits flowing into the world. These disgruntled and terrified masses will flock to Ba Sing Se, putting its massive walls (and considerable distance) between themselves and the spirit portals. Thus all the people who disagree with Korra's decision to open the portals will gather in one place, giving rise to an anti-Avatar movement. Korra, of course will have to confront these people and defend her actions.The new villain will be the current Earth King. With democracy on the rise, the monarchy's been losing more and more power every year, and the Earth King is desperate to regain control of his kingdom. He sees opportunity in the anti-Avatar movement: by supporting them, he wins the people's favour, and convinces the Earth Kingdom's parliament to restore his executive power so he can protect the world from spirits. Using the loyal, reformed, metalbending Dai Li, he'll capture Korra and imprison her somewhere beneath the city. Thus the heroes of Book 3 will be Tenzin, Kya, Bumi, Jinora, Mako, and Bolin, as they strive to defeat the Earth King and save Korra. Korra, meanwhile, will have to teach herself the true meaning of earthbending: Wait, and Listen. Maybe she'll have a wise old mentor for a cellmate. Or maybe a badgermole.
- A season in Ba Sing Se will also allow us to revisit the Jasmine Dragon, which our heroes might use as a base of operations.
- Earth Queen, actually.
- Partly jossed. While a number of episodes are set in Ba Sing Se, much of the above guess didn't occur.
Book 3's big bad will be extra terrestrial in nature
That's the only way to make season 3 bigger that I can see- We've still got a book 4 too. Lets leave the alien until then.
- Jossed. No aliens in Korra.
A villain this season will be called Lock
Unalaq and Tarrlok why not drop the pretense- Jossed. Better luck next time.
Season 3 will take place 3 years after season 2
Jossed. It's actually a few weeks later. The 3 year timeskip does happen between Books 3 & 4, however. One of the cast will end up getting into a relationship with a spirit.
Seems like a logical extension of the intermingling.- Not this season.
Aang's statue will be defaced somehow in the finale.
Well it's happened twice so far. Might as well make it a running gag.- More than a Running Gag... First season finale the Equalists put a mask on it and defaced it. Second season finale, it was taken up and dropped, but still intact. Serial Escalation, perhaps? It'll be more and more attacked each season finale until it finally breaks completely in the season four finale.
- In Book 3, the statue does break... Revealing that Aang was inside all along, hibernating in suspended animation! (Ok, maybe that's more of an Epileptic Tree.)
- Jossed. They were nowhere near Republic City for the final battle. However, the Northern Air Temple is destroyed instead.
There will be a mass jailbreak at the Fog of Lost Souls.
No reason. I just want to see Zhao again. Zhao's fun.- Jossed.
Book 3 and possibly book 4 will be more like the original series.
Due to the events of the season 2 finale, the setting itself has become radically altered. Spirits will become more commonplace and the role of the Avatar has been redefined. Perhaps it'll take on the tone the original series had. More whimsical in a sense. Plus it won't have that annoying shipping angle since nearly all the romantic pairings have been sunk. The antagonist/s will not have anything to do with the Water Tribes
We've seen two somewhat similar versions of that already. It's time to find out what everything else is like in this time-period, beyond Republic City and the world Korra knows.- Jossed, though at least it's not solely them.
Tahno will come back for a few episodes, and by Book 4 will be part of the Krew
A La Suki.- Jossed. Again, he doesn't return until the last episodes of Book 4, and those were cameos. He never joins the Krew.
Varrick will be the Big Bad of the season
Now a criminal, he gathers the remaining members of the Equalists to form a terrorist organization. He will use his technology to create artificial bending, making himself an artificial Avatar. The conflict will basically be magic vs technology. Here's how the artificial bending will work:- Fire: Using flamethrowers.
- Lightning: The Equalists already had electric weapons.
- Air: Powerful fans.
- Water: Tank packs with a hose to fire.
- Earth: Gauntlets that increase strength.
- Metal: Electromagnets.
Got that last one right, at least.
- Jossed. He does appear in Zaofu, but his appearance was just for humor, and his gadgets were apparently not used, at least not in this Book. Also, the Big Bad was a foursome of extremist benders called the Red Lotus, with the Earth Queen and the Dai Li as additional antagonists
Korra will have to work with Unalaq's wife
It's been shown that Unalaq was rather influential and well-known amongst spirits, what if his wife had the same kind of connections and the Avatar needed her help to deal with some of the problems brought about by the presence of spirits in the same world as humans?- Jossed. We don't even see Unalaq's wife.
Wan Shi Tong will bring back his library into the material world
Related to the above. Unalaq's wife will convince him to come back, that humans have changed since his last visit and that even if some will still try to abuse the library's knowledge, there are some humans who can be trusted with guarding and protecting the place.- Jossed.
Asami will be a villain in Book 3
She might be even the Big Bad.- Don't we have this guess every season?
- Well, technically not yet, but I'll fix that.
- Jossed. She's still one of the heroes.
Korra will be blackmailed into giving elemental bending powers to a non-bender Big Bad.
Running with the theory that the Avatar does not actually restore bending but rather creates bending anew, a non-bender villain will realize this and will find a bargaining chip to get Korra to give bending powers to the Big Bad.- Jossed
Asami will not undergo a Face–Heel Turn.
- Confirmed. Well, there's always a chance for the next season...
The Humans will hate Korra because she let the Spirits back in.
Not only that, but she'll have to deal with the "everybody hates me" mentality that's a staple for Young Adult fiction. She'll also try to carry out her Avatar duties (which may or may not be very easy), and she'll have to guide the world through the growing pains between the Humans and Spirits.- I Knew It!.
- There is an element of this, but it's not something that Korra is especially bothered about (which she presumably would if this were being used in a 'YA fiction' manner). She is far more concerned with finding the best way to deal with the consequences of her choice, rather than improving her poll ratings. If she is bothered on a personal level, she has (wisely, both in-universe and as character writing) not taken the time to angst over it.
Book 3 will introduce a new opening
Now that Korra cannot connect to the past avatars they will be droped from the opening. And in for a Penny in for a Pound, they might as well make a new narration while their at it one narrted by Jinora.- New Opening can go like this:
Earth: Bolin
Fire: Mako
Air: One of Tenzins kids
Water: Korra still
Long ago the worlds of humans and spirits where separated, but the avatar has broken the barrier between worlds. - Jossed.
There will be an episode detailing Mako and Bolin's childhood
One of the leaked images for the season shows Mako missing his scarf. He will lose it somehow, which will lead to a flashback of how he got it, when his parents died, Mako and Bolin's lives as street kids, and how they became Pro-Benders.- We have at least met their father's family, in the poorer region of Ba Sing Se. Mako gives his scarf to his grandmother. No flashbacks yet, just a photo of the brothers' parents and some comments about their dad's life before he left Ba Sing Se.
Non-benders will learn how to bend and benders will learn how to bend other elements
In the trailer, it looked like Bumi was airbending. The original source of bending came from spirits (the lion turtles), so with the portals open anything can happen.- Partly confirmed. Harmonic Convergence apparently gave/awakened Airbending skills in some non-benders. No sign yet of this extending to benders learning more than one element, so for the moment that's Avatar-only.
Katara will have a Badass Grandma moment
- Jossed. She's completely absent from season 3. There's always season 4 though.
Zaheer's group have already tried to kill the Avatar
This was mentioned elsewhere, and is an interesting idea if one full of Nightmare Fuel. The basis for this was that the firebender woman has been imprisoned for (at least) 13 years, which was around the time when four year-old Korra was revealed to be the Avatar. The main problem with this idea is that Korra would have to have been in the Avatar State for any attempt on her life to work permenantly. Anything else would simply continue the cycle. However, if we add the thought that Zaheer and friends were also members of the Order of the White Lotus (who had been tasked by that point with protecting Aang's successor) they may have found a way to make a credible attempt at ending the Avatar cycle.- While we didn't know if they did try to kill Korra in the past, the whole 'trying to kill the Avatar permanently'is Confirmed. So this is very likely.
The Fire Bending prisoner is Mako/Bolin's mother
They share more than a passing resemblance, the timing matches up, and Mako's reaction when his grandmother went on about how perfect his mother must have been hints that he knows something about her that he doesn't want to admit. So it will probably be revealed that Bolin didn't witness his parent's deaths and is just going off of what Mako told him. And Mako lied, either out of genuine denial, or because he felt the truth would be far harsher to share, that his mother killed his father (remember, he did say the murderer was a firebender...) The Earth Queen is not actually Kuei's daughter
She is Long Feng's daughter. She was either switched at birth with the actual daughter, or shortly thereafter. Kuei's daughter is either dead or being held captive. Hou-Ting is very aware of this, which is why she is extremely hostile towards Korra as she knows what happened the last time an Avatar was in Ba Sing Se. This is also why she makes Korra go get the taxes for her, it makes her feel in control.- I am fairly positive that while they weren't able to outright state it in the show, Long Feng was probably a eunuch. The Dai Li are a very close Expy of the Imperial eunuchs who effectively controlled the Forbidden City and the Emperor for centuries in China. The logic was that only eunuchs could be trusted with great political power because they would focus on the welfare of the empire instead of their personal legacy.
- Given that the irregulars want to kill the Avatar, I hope not.
- Somewhat confirmed. Though the Red Lotus fail to kill Korra and Zaheer is once again imprisoned, they did succeed in murdering the Queen and driving the entire Earth Kingdom into chaos while Korra is currently incapacitated due to the poison they administered into her body. And though Zaheer is no longer a threat, it is all but implied the Red Lotus have other agents that are active elsewhere.
Desna will be more prominent than Eska this season.
While being introduced as twins in Book 2, Eska was given more screentime and dialogue, regarding her relationship with Bolin, while Desna was more cast aside dealing with their father. This time, it will be Desna getting more screentime and dialogue than his sister.- Jossed. They appear only briefly, during the events surrounding P'li's jailbreak.
Zaheer's legion will fall apart one way or another as with every Legion of Doom-like group
Whenever there is a super villain team involved, there's bound to be that one weakness that will cause their unity to crumble. There's a chance that deep down, every member is just as greedy as Zaheer, and the heroes would try to exploit that weakness to divide them. Or Zaheer is probably intending to kill off all his comrades once he gets closer to his goal, just like how Red Skull was planning to kill off the other villains after he got the tesserect.- Jossed, but sort of confirmed in Aiwei's case.
The reason non-benders became Airbenders after Harmonic Convergence is because the broken Line of Avatars didn't just vanish - they merged with non-benders, giving rise to new Airbenders
When Raava's link with Korra was destroyed, all of Korra's past lives disappeared one-by-one, and Korra herself says that she has no link to them anymore. Simultaneously, new Airbenders have begun emerging, with no explanation given. It very well may be that these two events are linked: instead of the past Avatars just being obliterated or vanishing, their essences scattered and merged with non-benders's souls to create new Airbenders.- There were 10,000 years between Wan becoming the first Avatar and Korra's Harmonic Convergence. We know that Avatars can live over 100 years (Aang lived 166, and Kyoshi lived 230), and we know that Korra had 4N+2 predecessors, where N is the number of complete Avatar cycles that elapsed. Going off that, there are probably between 50 and 118 previous Avatars. Given the number of new Airbenders that we have seen so far, this theory is possible, but I'm inclined to doubt it.
Tenzin and Zaheer will have an epic airbending battle.
Air vs. air is the only duel we haven't seen in the series yet, and as Korra's likely to use all her elements, the only way to show off airbenders at their finest is to have Zaheer fight the world's only other airbending master. Which Tenzin will probably lose in order to show just how dire the situation is and just how powerful and ruthless an airbender without morals can be.- Confirmed, but Tenzin dominates the fight, and only loses when the other members of the Red Lotus pitch in.
The Earth Queen took power from her father
No particular evidence to suggest this is the case. However, the Queen's ruthless attitude and single-minded persuit of power does make me wonder whether she used the Dai Li behind her father's back in order to ensure Kuei's removal from power and install herself as monarch in his place. She is not exactly subtle, but then her dad was always well-meaning but naive. It probably wouldn't have taken much to manipulate him, particularly if the Dai Li is as influential as it was in Long Feng/Azula's day. The Red Lotus/Irregulars/Whatever killed Sokka and will kill Katara
It was explicitly stated Chief Sokka helped bring them down 13 years ago. Correct me if/when I'm wrong, but I think that's the last chronological thing we know about Sokka, who would have been an old muggle at that point against three absurdly powerful Benders and one much younger man. This could also explain why Kya is familiar enough with Zaheer to recognize him.- As for Katara, it is likely these 3 seasons will follow the usual trilogy tone (like the last series) of having the second Act end on a down note. As we already know one of the villains' goals is to destroy the White Lotus, it is a given that they will go after the Grand Master at some point. I'm guessing this trilogy's darkest hour will be Katara's death.
- But didn't "The Fortune Teller" reveal that Katara will live long enough to see her third great-grandchild then pass away in her sleep?
- Wasn't there a bit of ambiguity in how genuine her predictions were, though? *shrug* Even then, they could always retcon it. Though I do doubt they will go THIS dark.
- No word on Sokka, but jossed on Katara, who does not appear at all in Book 3.
Now that the "change" that the Red Lotus wants to bring about has been revealed...
At the end of the book, the four nations will be abolished, like how Korra saw Unalaq's point and left the spirit portals open at the end of Book Two.- Jossed, but the Earth Kingdom is in complete chaos...
Suyin is a member of the Red Lotus, but is not a villain.
There is a picture spreading online of a screenshot where Suyin poses in an old photograph with a man who appears to be none other than Zaheer. She also spoke of how old-fashioned and foolish it is to still have an institution like the Earth Queen in an earlier episode, which matches Zaheer's anarchistic ideals. However, Suyin is not a radical follower of the organisation; rather than try to bring down the establishment by force, she simply seeks to provide an example of how the society can work without a strict hierarchy in her personal enclave of Zaofu, trying to inspire others to do the same. She's playing a game of her own, manipulating Korra in hopes of converting Zaheer and his followers from their violent ways and joining her interpretation of constructive anarchism. Her approach even fits the traditional Earthbender philosophy of waiting and listening. The Red Lotus will murder Queen Hou-Ting.
They've already stated they want to abolish all governments, especially those run by people they feel are unfit to rule (and mentions Hou-Ting directly, albeit not by name). Besides, an upcoming episode is titled "Long Live the Earth Queen"... a variation on a phrase often said before or after a ruler has died. It's safe to say she's doomed, and good riddance.- Confirmed. Zaheer suffocates her and leaves her for dead.
The Red Lotus is trying to extract Vaatu from Korra
It explains why they need her alive, but not well. They want to induce Avatar state and then kill her. Whether they'll induce this state using drugs, various techniques or just threatening her friends and allies. Also kidnapping Bolin and Mako fits the bill, they'll kill them to incite her and then just kill her to allow Raava to be released.- Jossed. They DID want to induce the Avatar State and then kill her, but to end the Avatar Cycle once and for all.
The show will finally refer back to Book One...
...by revealing that Amon was a former member of the Red Lotus. He ran away from his abusive father and...? Wherever he went, it led him to Republic City, where he lived in disguise and led a communist-esque revolution against all benders. Other than his absolutely horrible father Yakone, what else would convince him that bending was the root of all evil? Why, the Red Lotus, or the four current members that we see. They're pretty fricking crazy. They have very unusual bending talents, like Amon and his psychic bloodbending (so far, Ming-Hua hasn't been shown bloodbending). They could have been based somewhere near the North Pole, where a scared and angry Noatak could have stumbled upon them. The Red Lotus fed him, sheltered him, and attempted to show him how to use his bloodbending abilities for good. Then he was finally inducted into the Red Lotus. But then what happened?Well, the four Irregular Benders we see are dangerous anarchists. Young Noatak began to see the harm in their ideology, and began to question it. He especially became skeptical when the Irregular Benders decided to take out Avatar Aang and kisnap the next Avatar, because Aang had debended Yakone. Though Yakone had become twisted and bitter and raised his sons to be his own personal tools of revenge, Noatak still thought Aang had the right idea. The Red Lotus, however, never got the chance to assassinate Aang, because he died at 66. Then the Red Lotus decided to kidnap the next Avatar, a little Southern Water Tribe girl named Korra. This was the last straw for Noatak, whose unique bloodbending capabilities could have given the Red Lotus the upper hand. It was something of a Berserk Button for him, with the (maybe) leader of the Red Lotus, Unalaq, arranging to kidnap his own niece. Unalaq also being a selfish jerk and rather abusive father to his own children, Noatak said "no, just no." He gave Unalaq an epic "Reason You Suck" Speech, refused to have any part in Unalaq's family shenanigans, refused to work for someone so slavishly devoted to Vaatu that he abused his own family and manipulated the Red Lotus for his own ends. Noatak then ran away, just like he did when he was 14, but this time, he was a man. A very angry man. In his anger, he decided that if nobody had any bending, not anyone in the Red Lotus, and not the Avatar either, then none of this would have happened. He once again became ashamed of his own powers, convinced that there was no good use for them except to harm and destroy... and maybe debend people like Aang debended Yakone, who abused his bending abilities.... hey, wait a minute! Noatak finally knew what to do. He set off for Republic City, the shining beacon of hope and modernity, where benders and non-benders of all nations lived in harmony.
Except once he got there, he realized that benders controlled everything. Absolutely /everything/. They controlled the whole economy. Benders were given the best jobs because all of the public services relied on bending. Non-benders had to fight tooth and nail with benders and other non-benders just to eke out a living. Noatak, who had changed his name to Amon just in case the Red Monsoons knew that Yakone had a son named Noatak, was less than pleased. This only reaffirmed his belief that benders were constantly suppressing non-benders and, in a stateless world, would dominate non-benders and drive them to extinction, never realizing the talents and skills they did have. Amon eventually met up with some like-minded people who swore themselves to secrecy... and thus, the Equalist movement was born. It was just like the Red Lotus, only without benders.
But then Unalaq received word that Noatak was still in Republic City and going by the name "Amon". He found himself in need of a new representative for the Northern Water Tribe, and selected the up-and-coming charming young politician Tarrlok for the position, not realizing that Tarrlok and Noatak were actually brothers. Just before Tarrlok departed, Unalaq gave him one command: Find this man named Amon, and destroy him and any following he might have, because he's a dangerous anarchist.
For Tarrlok, this was much easier said than done. When he got to Republic City, Amon was a nobody and the Equalists were just a bunch of non-benders living in the shadows and complaining about non-benders. But then Amon grew bolder and bolder, and seeing the Avatar, of all people, abuse her bending just pissed him right off. It pissed him off just as much as seeing his brother Tarrlok being just like their slimy, murderous father and ruling Republic City's non-benders with an iron fist. And so began Book One.
Zaheer and Tenzin will have a showdown at some point.
They'll duel in both battle with their airbending and they'll also conflict with their own philosophies. Both are two of the only powerful airbenders in existence at this point.- Confirmed in "The Ultimatum." It truly is a sight to behold. Unfortunately, it ends with the other Red Lotus members ganging up on Tenzin and delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown...
The Red Lotus will set about their new world order and the entire world will descend into chaos by the end of the Book.
With the Earth Kingdom fallen, they'll set out to assassinate more world leaders and send the entire world into disarray. Man will be at war with one another, and soon the Spirits will follow, enraged and entangled in all of the discord as well. The Book will end with the Red Lotus having succeeded in their goal and barely escaping Team Avatar's reach, leaving an entire world in ruins and chaos. It's then up to Korra to restore the balance, which will be dealt with in Book 4. Guru Laghima was a villainous Air Nomad.
He might not have been able to pull off any of his plans, but he really was an anarchist who advocated violent revolution.- Dunno about him being a violent anarchist, but being villainous or at least trying to overthrow the Air Nation's government would have led to him being unpersoned. This is why despite being a supposedly great Airbending Guru, little is known of his philosophy other than, as Zaheer put it, proverbs and fairy tales. The fact that some of his work survived and people who have studied the Air Nomad history and culture still know who he is just prove how difficult it is to actually Un-person someone, even if it was four thousand years ago.
- Alternatively, he wasn't particularly villainous, just... controversial. All that survived of his work was the "good stuff" that wasn't, ahem, forgotten. Or it could have been very heavily censored by a tyrannical regime whose leader may have admired him (in a Worthy Opponent kind of way) and so instead of making him mysteriously disappear, let him live free but heavily censored and cherry-picked his work.
- Tenzin had a locket in his room with a poem by Laghima, though. If Laghima was an unperson, it seems rather unlikely that much information of his existence and philosophies would've survived the destruction of the Air Nomad culture, and that Tenzin would have relics of him.
Ba Sing Se will be taken over by a Napoleon.
The parallels to Paris during the French Revolution are quite clear. Further, this Napoleon will be a Bei Fong; either Toph or Suyin. This will happen either at the tail end of Book 3 or sometime in Book 4.- Confirmed. Not an actual short person, but a dictator: Kuvira.
The season/book will end with the Zaheer plot unresolved.
The exposition of Zaheer and Guru Lahima's writings lead the oppurtunity to further flesh out his character. His ideas of targeting world leaders lead to believe he will target Korra's dad and succeed leaving Korra one more emotional hurdle to jump through for the final book. Zaheer's plan also would establish a pacing for the next book which would create realistic tension for the Avatar while leaving a plausible individual seeking to spread his ideas all over the world. Zaheer's broad thinking expressed in Chapters 9 and 10 also lead for a worldwide spread plot for his ideas.- Possibly confirmed. Zaheer is still alive after the Season 3 finale, not to mention that the Earth Kingdom issue is unresolved
Kya will heal Tenzin
with bloodbending.The writers humored fans by making their lethal airbending theories canon, so it would follow that they would do the same with fan theories that bloodbending can be used to heal.- Jossed. Kya herself is more or less out of commission after the fall she and Bumi took. Tenzin is much better by the end anyways.
Katara wasn't at Jinora's ceremony
because she had some really important White Lotus stuff to attend to.What with the Earth Kingdom in chaos and the Avatar incapacitated, the White Lotus is bound to be doing everything they can to keep the situation under control, and that means all hands on deck. Harmonic convergence did more than make new airbenders.
The most obvious potential side effect would obviously be that some non-benders were transformed into water, earth or fire benders, working on the logic that Harmonic Convergence simply imbued bending in some non benders.Another theroy is that Harmonic Convergence actually heightened the powers of some benders, for example Bolin gaining the ability to Lavabend.