Korra

### Fighting styles

Waterbending (Southern, Northern, and Pro-bending style), earthbending, firebending, airbending, spiritbending, metalbending, energybending

## Political information

### Profession

* Avatar
* Pro-bender (formerly)

### Position

* Daughter of the Southern Water Tribe chief
* Fire Ferrets' waterbender (formerly)
* Member of Tarrlok's task force (formerly)
* Fully realized Avatar

### Predecessor

* Aang (as the Avatar)
* Hasook (as the waterbending member of the Fire Ferrets)

### Affiliation

* Southern Water Tribe
* Fire Ferrets (formerly)
* Tarrlok's task force (formerly)
* Team Avatar

## Chronological information

### First appearance

"End of an Era" (photograph only)

Avatar **Korra** was the Southern Water Tribe-born Avatar successor of Avatar Aang and predecessor of Avatar Genji. She was the wife of Asami Sato.

## History

### 174 AG

In 174 AG Wu and Korra managed to transform the Earth Kingdom into the Earth Federation and Wu abdicated. Four years later, Korra married Asami and two years later created the Global Assembly. In 189 AG a new president was elected, Jianwu; unfortunately the Earth Federation at that time was in danger of a serious economic depression and Jianwu to avoid the problem decided to invade the Si Wong desert and the misty swamp; in order to exploit the oil and mineral deposits present in the first, and the timber present in the second. The peoples who lived in both places opposed, but could do nothing against the armies of the Federation; Korra, unable to help both at the same time, decided to go to the rescue of the swamp tribe, also due to the presence of the Banyan-Grove Tree. Korra's intervention saved the swamps, but the Sandbenders were driven out of their homeland.

### Death

Despite his victory, Jianwu was not re-elected and leader Dai Li, a man named Bao Jun, came to power in his place. A few months later Korra was killed in a terrible explosion in an attempt to stop it. Following the Avatar Cycle, Korra reincarnated as a Sandbender named Genji.

## Trivia

* Korra shares similarities with Kuruk, another Avatar of the Water Tribe: both died young (Kuruk at thirty-three and Korra at thirty-nine), and the identification of both of their successors was erroneous.
	+ Similarly they also faced some kind of crisis with dark spirits during their lifetime. With Korra seeing said spirits turning violent and attacking during the lead-up to the Harmonic Convergence that would aid the escape of the ancient Vaatu, and Kuruk seeing dark spirits unsatisfied with Yangchen's pro-human actions attempting to cross over via rifts - created by a spirit called Father Glowworm - and wreak havoc.
	+ They also faced a threat that was unintentionally caused by their preceding Airbender Avatar. Aang sparing the life of notorious criminal Yakone led to him escaping and fostering Noatak, who would threaten Republic City under the guise of Amon with his Equalist movement during Korra's era. Yangchen repeatedly favoring humans over spirits led to Kuruk having to hunt and destroy the sacred creatures that had turned dark as a result.
* Korra is the third female Avatar whose predecessor and successor are both male. The first is Yangchen, and the second is Kyoshi.
* Korra performs all four elements in the opening sequence of *The Legend of Genji*.

## References

1. ↑ Prologue — Legend of Genji (legendofgenji.com)