Chapter 1: The Test

• “Yellowneck Uprising” in the deep interior of the earth Kingdom.
• Jianzhu and Kelsang hold a test to determine next Avatar. The same test used on Avatar Aang.
• Avatar Kuruk “passed away at the ripe old age of 33.” The only time Kuruk had ever been early for anything.
• The Elemental cycle is “a process stretching back nearly a thousand generations before Kuruk.”
• “It had been 7 years since Kuruk’s death. 7 years of fruitless searching.” “The hunt for the Avatar had never faltered like this in documented history.”
• Avatar’s are prepared for their duties at the assumption of their power at the age of 16.

Chapter 2: Nine Years Later

• last jar of spicy pickled kelp “this year.” Kelp grows best from Fall and spring in the real world.

Chapter 3: The Boy from Makapu

• History is full of Avatars who wanted to “take it easy.”
• Yun wants to work hard because he was discovered as the Avatar so late.
• Jianzhu has been trying to renegotiate a contract with the daofei Queen of the seas for years.
• They recently surveyed the damage of the largest coordinated raid of the east coast mainlands in over a century.
• Avatar Kuruk was unable to translate his talent to leadership on the world stage.

Chapter 4: Honest Work

• “For the past decade, Kelsong had essentially raised” Kyoshi.
• in the years since Kuruk died, Jianzhu amassed great wealth and influence.
• Kyoshi recites a verse of song Kuruk once used.

Chapter 5: Revelations

• Jianzhu identified Yun as the Avatar “nearly 2 years ago”.
• In the last day of their trip in Makapu, Yun played the same paisho tiles and strategies as Kuruk.
• Kuruk was one the greatest paisho players in history.
• “About 20 years ago.” Kuruk’s companions began to drift apart. Hei-Ran got married that year. Abbot Dorjay was still alive. “Two months after Hei-Ran’s wedding, 3 months before Jianzhu’s father got sick,” Kuruk composed that song for Hei-Ran that Kyoshi recited. “Not long after, Kuruk met Umi.”

Chapter 6: Promises

• Yun wants to be as good as previous avatars’ Yangchen and Salai. Salai is the first named predecessor of Szeto.
• It took Kyoshi a long time to convince herself that she wasn’t in love with Yun.

Chapter 7: The Iceberg:

• Kyoshi had a dream of her parents.
• Kuruk’s companions weren’t the most positive of influences.
• Because of Queen Tadaka, the position of Admiral of Ba Sing Se is defunct.
• The Yellowneck Uprising ended when Jianzhu buried 5000 men alive.
• Queen Tagaka kidnapped over a thousand slaves from the earth kingdom between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice.
• Kyoshi’s first connection with the Avatar State: she brings the ocean floor up to meet the iceberg.

Chapter 8: The Fracture

• Northern and Southern Earth Kingdom dialects are so different they’re starting to become different languages.
• If Kuruk were alive he’d be at the peak of his power.
• First time the fire navy has been able to fly military colors in the eastern sea since the reign of the 22nd earth king.
• “You were asleep for 3 days, Kyoshi.”

Chapter 9: Desperate Measure

• Hei-Ran gives Kyoshi a test meant to test firebending in Fire Nation babies.
• Kyoshi and Yun have previously shared intimate moments.

Chapter 10: The Spirit

• The first time Kuruk practiced going into the Avatar state, they went to a small atoll. After he was done the island wasn’t there anymore.
• “It’s not the solstice, but it’s almost twilight.” Time when communion with spirits is greatest.
• Jianzhu calls spirit “Father Glowworm”. He is the oldest and wisest of the spirits. Kho has been in contact with humans before this.
• Father Glowworm has “tangled” with many of the Avatars past lives.
• Kyoshi revealed to be the true Avatar.
• Father Glowworm has reason to want revenge on Kuruk.
• Yun is sacrificed to Father Glowworm.
• Jianzhu kills Kelsong.
• Kyoshi enters the Avatar state fully for the first time.

Chapter 11: The Inheritance

• When she was “10 or thereabouts” a traveling fireworks vendor was paid to put on a show in Yokoya to celebrate the end of the first harvest. She found a “violated landscape” after being violently ill.
• Rangi joins Kyoshi on the run.

Chapter 12: The Decision

• Kyoshi’s case, being found so late, has never happened in Fire Nation history, according to Rangi. In the fire nation, they hold a festival larger than Twin Sun day when a fire avatar is chosen.
• Kyoshi destroys the turtle toy she received from Kelsong when she was a kid by mistake.

Chapter 13: Adaptation

• Hei-ran and Jianzhu begin looking for Rangi and Kyoshi.

Chapter 14: The Introduction

• “For the past 9 years Kyoshi had never” set eyes on open flatland.
• Rangi knew about Kyoshi’s past.
• The Flying Opera Company hadn’t heard the passphrase that Kyoshi spoke in “years”.
• Rangi knew her parents were daofei.
• “Jessa and Hark slowed down considerably for a few years,” when Kyoshi was born in the Earth Kingdom.
• They abandoned Kyoshi when she was 5 or 6 in a farming village.
• Her mother and father died three years ago from fever.
• Crackdowns on smuggling have been severe the past few years.
• Kyoshi’s journal must be a decade old. With entries that go back further
• Lek would have been 3 years old during the Flying Opera Company’s heyday.

Chapter 15: Escape

• Kyoshi’s mother was an Airbender.
• Lao Ge was rumored to be 200 years old. Known as Tieguai the Immortal.
• He’d assassinated the 40th earth king.

Chapter 16: The Agreement

• Sun hadn’t risen yet. Rangi puts Kyoshi in horse stance.
• Kyoshi’s mum was born at the Eastern air temple, became a master at a very young age.
• Her mother was one of the worst air nomad disgraces in recent memory.
• Lek was picked up after the last of his family died at the Misty Palms Oasis.
• Kyoshi swears in as a daofei.

Chapter 17: Obligations

• Hei-ran and Jianzhu meet twice a day to discuss Kyoshi’s possible whereabouts.
• Hui has been in the ear of Beifong for about a year, scheming to take control of the Avatar away from Jianzhu.
• Yangchen used to write love poetry.
• Lu Beifong was Jianzhu’s old master. Wu-mei, his wife is now dead.
• Hui wasn’t around during the Yellowneck uprising.
• Hui’s undercutting the proposal for a Southern Water Tribe navy will have ramifications for centuries (as seen in Book One of Avatar: The Last Airbender).
• Jianzhu had been buying off nobles and leaders for years.

Chapter 18: The Town

• The Taihua mountains were said “to have swallowed armies in” Ba Sing Se’s founding.
• Once every decade or so, the wind would shift, blowing red dust onto the mountains, making it look like bloody snow.
• After Kyoshi’s parents died, and Pong-Pong left, they exchanged favors from the Autumn Bloom Society. Moon Peaches usually bloom in Spring.
• The Autumn Bloom started off after the Yellownecks scattered.
• “The world waited years for an Avatar. It can wait a little longer. And so can you.”
• Te Sihung’s family inherited an old mansion dating from the 30-somethingth earth king.
• Leader of the Yellownecks has been locked up for 8 years. That’s how long it’s taken for the Autumn Bloom to grow strong enough to break him out.
• The attack on Governor Te’s palace is scheduled 30 days from now.
• Rangi and Kyoshi get together.

Chapter 19: The Beast

• In the old days earth kings would hunt down political enemies with shirzu
• Shirshu haven’t been seen in the wild for “at least a generation.”

Chapter 20: The Avatar’s Masters

• Earth Kings and Avatars past used to come to each other’s aid.
• First time Kyoshi admits she is the Avatar.
• First time Kyoshi waterbends.
• No former Avatar that Kyoshi had known had outlaw companions.
• “The next full moon” is Mok’s assault.
• “It takes years for the Avatar to master all four elements.”
• Rangi’s lineage is an unbroken chain of fire ending teachers, having trained members of the royal family.
• Kuruk was said to be the greatest hunter to ever walk the four nations.

Chapter 21: Preparations

• Kyoshi’s firebending is coming easier now.
• “They say bad things happen to avatars who don’t follow the natural order of bending.” Earth-fire-air-water
• Guru Shoken was a contemporary with Laghima.
• “Yangchen was a devoted reader of Shoken.”
• Lao Ge claims he was always better looking than Shoken, meaning he’s older than Kyoshi assumes.

Chapter 22: Conclusions

• Jianzhu and his riding partners reached the mountains of Ba Sing Se very fast.
• Jianzhu used to track criminals through footprints using earthbending.
• The inhabitants of Hujiang “evacuated some days ago.”

Chapter 23: Questions and Meditations

• The harvest was good this year.
• “Te hasn’t opened his silos for 5 years.” Selling reserves for off the book profits every year since he’s been appointed Governor.
• The 30th earth king was of the Hou(?) dynasty.

Chapter 24: The Face of Tradition

• Full moon: time for raid on Governor Te’s mansion.
• Kyoshi gets her makeup done for the first time.

Chapter 25: The Raid

• The boy is the Governor. He wasn’t old enough to shave. He’s 15, soon. “He’s Lek’s age.”
• His father was Governor before him.
• The day before Kyoshi was scheduled to begin training with Kirima, Rangi made her practice airbending.
• Lao Ge hasn’t failed to take his man in a long time.
• It took 8 years to rescue him

Chapter 26: The Challenge

• Xu Ping An is a bloodthirsty madman
• After Kuruk died they were known as The Dark Days
• Years ago Lao Ge passed through a town in the wake of the Yellownecks. The town was “stacked.”
• “A single moon ago, Kyoshi was the weak link.”
• “The second harvest wouldn’t be ready though”
• Kyoshi challenges Xu Ping An to a lei tai.
• Xu Ping An uses lightning bending.

Chapter 27: Dues

• Kyoshi had never heard of bending lightning.
• Kyoshi succumbs to the Avatar State during Lei Tai.
• Kyoshi defeats Xu Ping An by dropping him from a great height. He dies.

Chapter 28: Memories

• Kyoshi was knocked out for 3 days.
• Kyoshi’s parents spent their “last years with” Lek instead of Kyoshi.
• Leks brother Chen was locked up in a gibbit. He threw rocks at the gibbit for days. Until he passed out. And Jess and Hark picked him up. He couldn’t use his arm for two weeks afterwards.
• Day Grove, the village, doesn’t exist anymore.

Chapter 29: The Ambush

• A little more than a week ago there was an explosion of activity coming from Hue’s offices, which is equivalent to the message that the guard sent out to Hue in that Daofe town.
• “You said Hue started his moves a week ago.” They’re trying to take the reins of the Avatar away from Jianzhu.
• Jianzhu believes he has about 3 weeks to ready a statement on Kyoshi
• Jianzhu had kept Xu Ping An alive so the Fire Nation could study his bending. Was a skill so rare, some thought it was lost to the ages.
• The next day Hue brings a caravan to Jianzhu’s place.
• Jianzhu poisons the company of Earth Kingdom Sages.

Chapter 30: Farewells

• Kyoshi’s hands are burned.
• Kyoshi is technically the leader of the Yellownecks.
• The gloves Kyoshi buys once we’re commissioned by a colonel who died before he could pick them up.
• Rangi taken by Jianzhu’s forces. Lek dies.

Chapter 31: The Return

• The Western coast of the Earth continent had been decimated of it leadership.
• Hei Ron still alive. It’s been a day since poisoning.
• Jianzhu meets Kyoshi in a tea house.
• Yun shows up, wreaks havoc.
• Kyoshi joined Lao Ge in his daily longevity exercises.
• Wong steals a ring that allows him direct personal conversation with the Earth King.

Chapter 32: Hauntings

• Kyoshi visits the Southern Air Temple
• Kyoshi’s companions part ways.
• Kyoshi reveals herself to the elders of the Southern Air Temple.
• Jinpa was to work with Kyoshi for the foreseeable future.
• “Only a few weeks ago,” Jianzhu sent out new copies of his will, placing Kyoshi’s name as the sole heir.
• “Each Avatar was born in fitting times to an era that needed them.”
• The people revered Yangchen.
• The people smiled at Kuruk.
• Jinpa possibly a member of the White Lotus.
• Kuruk in his 30s reaches out to Kyoshi, asking him for help.