The Red Lotus

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> The Red Lotus
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> General Infomation
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> ### Leader(s)
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> * Zorok
> * Yzume Shindo
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> ### Notable Members
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> * Zorok
> * Yzume Shindo
> * Ezra Tempest Shui
> * Kai Ghojin
> * Ren
> * Aster Sage(formerly)
> * Ryoza (formerly)
> * Ruhan
> * Rung Me
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> ### Founder(s)
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> Xai Bau
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> ### Headquarters
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> Various
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> ### Purpose
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> Usher in a new era of a world without borders and nations, by overthrowing the Order of the White Lotus, the four nations' governments, and the Avatar
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> ### Status
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> * Active
> * Wanted
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> *"Once, our group was corrupt and evil, declaring war on nations and terrorising the common man. But no more."*
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**The Red Lotus** is a global, militant, self-proclaimed anarchist organization founded by Xai Bau as a splinter faction of the Order of the White Lotus after the Hundred Year War. In the past, their goal has been to dismantle the established nations and their leaders, creating a "free" world without goverments. Their methods have been extremely anarchist in order to achieve this, such as opening Spirit Portals to reunite the Spirit World and the Physical world, and by ending the Avatar Cycle. The Red Lotus has often viewed the Avatar as their primary enemy for standing in their way of achieving this goal.

After the defeat of P'Li, Ming-Hua, Ghazan, and Zaheer, the Red Lotus went back into hiding, and there they remained for the better part of the last sixty years. During this sixty year period, members of the Red Lotus were either incarcarated or withdrew back into sleeper cell tactics in order to prevent capture. However, as of 249 AG, the Red Lotus slowly began to resurface by taking advantage of the struggling political climate and regain power, such as supporting the rebelling Sandbenders against the Earth King.

Although there are many groups and members alluded to across the world, and there is no 'true' leader of the Red Lotus as part of their anarchic ideology, the so-called 'defacto leader' of the Red Lotus is joint responsibility between Zorok, a wealthy investor and enterpenuer based in Republic City, and Yzume Shindo, a disgraced samurai now working as a merciless mercenary. Part of the inner circle of their current group includes Ezra Tempest Shui, Zorok's protege; Kai Ghojin, a disillusioned Blue Lotus and temporary law enforcement member turned terrorist; and Ren, a mercenary hired by Yzume. This team is known to be the leaders of the Red Lotus's ideology of 'uniting the nations' and destroying the Avatar for good.

## Known Members

* **Zorok:** Defacto leader of the Red Lotus, Zorok is a wealthy investor and entrepreneur living in Republic City.
* **Yzume Shindo:** A disgraced samurai and mercenary who acts as Zorok's right-hand man.
* **Ezra Tempest Shui:** A protege of Zorok, also from Republic City.
* **Kai Ghojin:** Formerly assisting officer Lira Beifong, now a dedicated Red Lotus member.
* **Ren:** Hired by Yzume for his carriage, now a member of the organization.
* **Aster Sage (formerly):** A wise Earthbending sage, Aster went AWOL after escaping imprisonment.
* **Ryoza (formerly):** A trusted friend of Yzume. Went AWOL after the siege against the Fire Nation, likely joined their side.
* **Ruhan:** Leader of the Sandbending rebellion in the Si Wong Desert.
* **Rung Me:** A mysterious but intelligent hacker based in Republic City.
* Unknown Red Lotus agents.

## Trivia

* Pre-reboot, there was only one known Red Lotus member: Vureer, an Earthbender.
* Zorok pays for all of the Red Lotus's finances, being an extremely wealthy business investor with multiple offshore accounts. He also owns all the property used for Red Lotus bases across the globe.
* Like the previous Red Lotus, each bender in the 'main' group offers a unique sub-bending ability.
	+ Zorok and Ezra can both Bloodbend, with the former being able to do so without a full moon.
	+ Ren emits red fire, as opposed to orange.
	+ Kai can emit explosive Firebending (not to be confused with Combustionbending).
	+ Aster can Lavabend.
* Zorok is the oldest member of the Red Lotus at 40 years old. This followed by Yzume (24), Ren and Kai (23), and Ezra (16).
* Zorok's Red Lotus team bears similarities to Zaheer's team:
	+ Both teams contain, or previously contained, at least one nonbender (Yzume and Zaheer, before Harmonic Convergence).
	+ Both have at least one waterbender, earthbender and firebender (Ming-Hua/Unalaq and Zorok/Ezra, Ghazan/Aster, P'Li and Ren/Kai/Ryoza).
	+ Both have one lavabender (Ghazan/Aster).
* The prison Zorok was sent to was the same prison that Ming-Hua was sent to.
* Before Aster was made into a Red Lotus, in another server, Aster was titled the 'Champion Of The Earth', though he had a completely different sub element due to lava being a fire element.