Book 2: The Rise of Rain

# Book Two: Rise of Rain

### The Fire Nation & the Earth Kingdom

Jun became known in history as “The Earthquake King” due to his powerful, but inaccurate bending, style, & his ruthlessness in maintaining order in the ex-Fire Nation.

After the war he ruled the Ex-Fire Nation from their old Capitol city, turning it into “the Capitol, inviting benders from all nations to come to live & work there, & the city grew into a center of commerce & invention.

Upon Vihaan’s death, Jun left the ruling of the Capitol to a steward, & a committee of merchants & scientists, & returned to Ba Sing Se to hold the throne there. An Earth King/Queen still sits on the Ba Sing Se throne today, & they hold sway, along with a council of ministers, over most of the world.

Fire benders & water benders worked together to invent the steam engine using old Fire Nation tech as a starting point, & the Capitol became economically important to the world order.

Non-bending citizens, being seen as less useful, ended up becoming marginalized, & unable to make as much money as bending citizens.

A class system formed with non-bending ex-Fire Nation citizens at the bottom–due to the blame people still put on them for destroying an entire race of people–& merchants, inventors, & Scientists at the top.

Jun’s personal Dai Ii became the leaders of a police force that continues to patrol the city today. The police enforce laws & curfews in the working class districts.

### Omashu

The current Queen of Omashu is Osha, an elderly firm Queen who has established much in her long life. Osha had established five fire colonies in her early reign to help displaced people of Fire Nation heritage, and gave them jobs and safety to rebuild their lives among her people as a part of her people. She even invented ZapCom to transfer messages through lightning bending from firebenders with the help of her five fire colonies on top of Omashu's advanced earthbending delivery system.

### The Water Tribes

The Northern Water Tribe grew under Kori’s rule, becoming a progressive nation of spiritualism & equal rights. It is now a large ice city similar in beauty to irl Venice, located at the top of the world. It is a popular location for those wishing to be closer to the spirits.

Kori also sent others to rebuild their sister tribe, & it grew as well, under the care of Seya, the current chief, & her predecessors.

Around 50 years ago, specialist earthbenders from the Capitol found oil fields in the Southern Water Tribe & scientists in the Capitol created things like rubber, & gasoline for smaller engines like automobiles. Coal & Oil both begin to power the major cities like Omashu & Ba Sing Se. New technology flows out of the Capitol, with scientists from all over the world coming to the city to invent & create.

The Southern Water Tribe is now a city nearly as diverse as the Capitol, rebuilt by a coalition of Northern Water Tribe & Earth Kingdom citizens. Though it still boasts some ice-structures, its style is more utilitarian, & many buildings are made of metal to withstand the weather.

The swamp tribe has not changed too much culturally, but industries from the Earth Kingdom are beginning to encroach on the borders of the swamp, seeking to drain it & turn it into farmable/habitable land.

### The New Air Nomads

Marginalized people (in particular non-benders) from all over the world have retreated to the temples, to rebuild them & adopt the air-nomad way of life. From these New Air Nomads, new air benders are born. The first generation of benders is just now starting to appear.

(This is where new-to-the-server airbenders want to start.)

Around the world, to honor the avatar & the lost airbenders, an international Air Nomads day, & all sorts of memorials have been established & the air temples restored.

### The Avatar

The next Avatar has been born into the swamp tribe as a water bender.

### Bending

Bending uses are more utilitarian than combat-oriented these days. The long-standing peace between the water tribes & Earth Kingdom, & the lack of any real fire or air nations, has led to a focus on building & creating.

The old martial arts are still taught, primarily to the higher classes, & rich children in the major cities are often taught multiple kinds of bending forms, even if they do not possess the ability themselves.

Firebending is centralized in the capital, primarily used for stoking the massive forges & working the boilers & machines that the Capitol specializes in.

Earthbending often finds its use in construction. Buildings can be created in a matter of minutes with a skilled team of earth benders, & with the advent of metal bending, buildings can be made taller & stronger even without many tools.

Water bending is used for healing & transportation. It’s far safer to take a boat steered by water benders than to go without, & hospitals around the world hire skilled water bending healers.

Air bending is still very rare & fragile. There isn’t much of it to find a use for yet.

Wildlife & The Environment

The wildlife has been mostly left to its own devices, though a society for the categorization and scientific study of the many hybrid species has been set up in the Upper part of the Capitol.

Dragons

Dragons are some of the most sensitive creatures in the world when it comes to the balance of nature and the spirit world, particularly in the fire nation. Because of the upset caused by the Earth Kingdom’s suppression of fire nation culture and because of the smoke and pollution spreading across the land from the Capitol, many dragons have left their native lands. Dragons are very rarely seen these days, though it is rumored that they still live in the old Sun Warrior ruins, and perhaps high in the mountains above Omashu, far from any human settlement.

# Important Notes as of May 2022:

* The Server has already selected a new Avatar for this book, but here are some things to note about it so far:
	+ The world has yet to know who the new Avatar is, let alone where they are or how old they are as the last one died a century ago.
	+ There are many different views of the Avatar due to the failure of the last one, and the fact that no new one has been revealed.