Sunday, June 7, 2009

Book 1: Water/"Boy in the Iceberg"

Peace,

The first episode introduces us to the main characters and lays the groundwork for the storyline. The world is separated into culture nations: the Air Nomads, The Water Tribes, The Earth Kingdom, and the Fire Nation. Each nation has masters of the ability to bend the element that corresponds to it's land, said elements being air, water, earth, and fire. Every knowledge cipher cipher years an Avatar is chosen from one of the nations to master all culture elements and keep peace in the world. The Fire Nation, which I see to embody devil in the story, decided to attack the other understanding nations, in an effort to conquer the world. The most recently selected Avatar, an air bending young monk by the name of Aang, has been unseen and unheard for knowledge cipher cipher years, while the fire nation has continued it's attacks. Two young members of the Southern Water Tribe, Katara and her brother Sokka discover Aang and his flying bison Appa frozen in an iceberg. They build with him, and take him to their village to meet the rest of their tribe.

The tribe is skeptical of the young god initially because they have never seen an airbender in person. He shows and proves himself to be said person of that ability after which point many of the young people from the tribe take him on face value. The elders do not, and Katara's grand ole' Earth warns her not to place all of her hopes in him. We also meet Prince Zuko who is the banished prince of the fire nation, and his enlightener/uncle Iroh. The God Iroh has years of understanding and once was a great leader in the fire nation army. Zuko is a scarred prince who is desparately hunting Aang because only by doing so can he reclaim his honor and rightful place as heir to the throne. Aang, Katara, and Zuko are all getting knowledge of self at this point and are just getting on what would equate to the 1-10. They already have their math and alphabets as they each are aware of their bending abilities and the fact that they need refinement. Although Zuko already has an enlightener, Aang was separated from his enlightener, Monk Kiatso, when he traveled from his temple after he found out that he was the Avatar. As the story moves forward, there will be many past avatars, which represent his past lives, that will add on to his cipher with their wisdom. Katara, being the last water bender in her tribe, is seeking an enlightener to assist her in her mastery of water bending. Each bender's mastery of their element is the equivalent of knowledging 120 and manifesting the highest form of their cultural expression. After Aang and Katara go snooping around in an abandoned ship and get caught, Aang is banished from their land and the episode ends.

Peace.
SV Allah

1 comment:

  1. very good start, I think I will be watching those episodes with your builds in mind

    Peace

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