The Main Storyline [Revised 2013]

Last Airbender: New Chapters is an ATLA-style roleplaying site that has very open rules that make roleplaying whatever people wish, a fairly easy task. Those who are wondering about the current storyline should read this.

However, also note that TLA:NC (often just shortened to NC) is very open and sandbox in nature, and because of that, there are sometimes crazy things that pop up, or the occasional inconsistency. Given that this is sandbox in nature and that that is sometimes how sandboxes work, this is suspected. However, there are a few facts that are set in stone that most users should familiarize themselves with.


Aang removes Ozai's bending and saves the world. This is the part of the story that we all know and love (or hate. Whatever floats your boats).
However, the tale of what happened afterwards is where things get different...

...much different.

Plans between the Avatar, the Earth King, and Firelord Zuko come into effect for a Harmony Restoration movement, aimed at taking back the Earth Kingdom lands and ridding them of Fire Nation presence. However, soon Zuko goes back on the plans, which nearly causes Aang to keep his promise. Zuko was following again down Ozai's path.
However, a Kyoshi Warrior provided a swift, decisive solution to the problem, since Aang was unwilling to kill his former friend. After assassinating the Firelord, she disappeared, and a brief Fire Nation civil war erupted as eligible contestants for the throne were found. Avatar Aang served as a great mediator of peace, and incidentally, Zuko's killer got off scot-free... after all, she was never discovered.

Suki managed to keep the entire thing on the DL, and so little more was made of it. Had she been discovered, perhaps another whole war would have erupted. However, this was not the case for many years.

A little over 50 years passed, and most of the old crew had gone the way of the world. Most notable was the death of Aang, which ushered in the birth of a new Avatar, a waterbender named Zulera. This gave way to a whole new slew of problems.

However, during that time, a lot of other things happened. Here are the changes between this site and the storyline of The Legend of Korra:

• The Four Nations have their own lands, as would be expected. The Fire Nation Colonies no longer exist
  
• Since Zuko had an early death, and because of the failure of the Harmony Restoration Movement and eviction of Fire Nation citizens back to the Fire Nation, Republic City was never founded.
  
• While Chi-blockers do exist, the Equalist organization was never founded, possibly from lack of revolutionaries.
  
• Technology has made many advances, but the ultra-concentrated advancement of technology seems conspicuously absent, given the lack of a Republic City
  
• the Avatar is a 30-year-old woman who is a dangerous element master and an enigmatic conniver and trickster, instead of an unsure and weak half-baked Avatar of 17.
  
• the Air Nomads made a proper comeback after the war, with the highest concentrations of them being in the Eastern and Western Air Temples. The mechanists and refugees still live in parts of the Northern Air Temple, though there is also an Airbender presence there. The gender segregation of the temples no longer exists, and there is a fighting spirit in a lot of them, particularly those native to the Eastern and Western Air Temples.
  
• the Southern Water Tribe is built into a massive fortress similar to (but still smaller than) its Northern sister. there is also a network of smaller cities around both capitals.
  
• the Earth Kingdom has all of its lands back, including what the Fire Nation had taken from them during the 100-Year War
  

For information on important characters and the likes, see the next post.

obviously there are important figures that people should become aware of, even if you don't ever meet them. Here are a few of the active userbase in important positions.
(Click the characters' names to learn more about them)


Shula Kumo Njoo--the current ruler of the Fire Nation; Fire Lord (or Fire Lady if you will.)
Kako Anthropos--Fire Nation Spymaster and Tactician
Mei Fong--General of the Fire Nation Military
Tarek Raiden--Scholar, General, & Head Advisor to Firelord Shula
Sanaki Calameda Zelgius--The wife of Tarek Raiden--the two are almost inseparable outside of their lines of work.

Akiyo--Chief of the Southern Water Tribe; a family man.
Tyrus Viath--Chief of the Northern Water Tribe. Also the manliest man to ever man.
Zulera Joanna Tallarico--The Current Avatar; Southern Water Tribe Native, and a menace to the order of the world.
Zurok--Water Tribe Shaman and ritualist

Mai Li--Air council Member at one of the Air Temples.
Xilingshi Nailah Zoraki--Air Nomad Warrior; founder and leader of the Tekina-Kaze.

Meili Mitali Zalika--55th Earth Queen; ruler of the Earth Kingdom and leader of the Dai Li
Naseru Amiti Litzak--Bending master and scholar/teacher at Ba Sing Se University.
Aveline--Captain of the Guard of Gaoling


obviously there are many more characters than just this, and I might add a list of currently active users/members to this, depending on popular request.