Jianzhu takes Yun and Kyoshi on a test to determine which is the proper Avatar, bringing them in front of a dark spirit who identifies Kyoshi as the Avatar. This feat of extreme bending power, along with other clues, leads Jianzhu and Kelsang to realize that Kyoshi could be the Avatar, not Yun. Kyoshi begins to fight and, without realizing it, uses her earthbending to pull up earth from underwater, breaking the iceberg and allowing her group to escape. During the meeting, Tagaka mentions some of the extremely brutal actions Jianzhu had taken to put down the various organized criminal sects, referred to as the daofei, and winds up attacking them. Yun asks Kyoshi to come with him to an iceberg on a mission to sign a peace treaty with Tagaka, a formidable pirate. Kelsang arranges for Kyoshi to live and work in the compound, and she becomes close with Yun and Rangi, Yun’s firebender bodyguard. Nine years later, Jianzhu and Kelsang have falsely identified a boy named Yun as the Avatar, and have begun training him in a large compound that Jianzhu builds in Yokoya. They begin to administer a test on a young homeless girl named Kyoshi to see if she may be an Avatar, but she runs away before they complete it. Seven years after his death, Kuruk’s friends Kelsang, a cheerful Air Nomad, and Jianzhu, an Earth Kingdom politician, are searching, without luck, for the next Avatar, and take their search to the small town of Yokoya Port. When an Avatar dies, they are reincarnated into a new person in a nation different from the one preceding them, making the Avatar always born in a specific order: Fire, Air, Water, Earth, repeat.Īt the novel’s opening the previous Avatar, Kuruk of the Water Tribes, has passed away unexpectedly at only 33 years old. One person, the Avatar, is born with the innate ability to bend all four elements and is often tasked with using their abilities to keep balance in the world. Some people from each nation are able to move their native element using a technique called “bending”. In this world, people are divided between four nations: the Fire Nation, the Air Nomads, the Water Tribes, and the Earth Kingdom. The Rise of Kyoshi is set within the fictional world of the Avatar universe, as portrayed in the television show Avatar: The Last Airbender and its spinoff, Avatar: The Legend of Korra. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Yee, F.

The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee