Timeline for How many Avatars have there been?
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| May 10, 2017 at 11:35 | comment | added | Thomas Jacobs | @Valorum Avatar Kuruk lived to be 33, and in the lineup we see in Legend of Korra the more recent Avatar seemed to have reached at least adulthood. But it's not impossible that certain Avatars did not live for very long, even with the protection of the White Lotus. If we take in the outliers like Kyoshi, you'd need something like seven other Avatars having lived 25 years shorter on average to get to the average lifespan of almost 55. Just look at how often Aang and Korra could have died during their adventures: not all their predecessors could have been as lucky as they were. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 11:11 | comment | added | Valorum | @ThomasJacobs - Being the Avatar seems a pretty risky business. Presumably several of them died a few weeks in | |
| May 9, 2017 at 9:04 | comment | added | Thomas Jacobs | @CreationEdge No, he was there; he just was the popsicle of balance, His aging might have been halted during that time, but there were still some 166 years between his birth and death. Plus we don't know if other Avatars managed to do something similar (Kyoshi comes to mind with her 230 years). | |
| May 7, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | user31178 | @ThomasJacobs Just pointing out that technically there was 100 years of no Avatar with Aang frozen, so the average comes down to 54.41 | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | Zommuter | @Valorum IIRC The One Avatar is truly reincarnated and thus there's always a time between an old Avatar's demise and their successor's discovery. But it's been a while, I might be wrong... | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 11:56 | comment | added | Cherubel | @Valorum its a Round robin thing. Each nation takes turns and the scholars know when the next Avatar is born. After Fire comes Wind, then Water then Earth and so on. This is why Fire nation wiped out the Wind nation. Also you become THE Avatar after the old one dies, not before. But after assuming the mantle of Avatar you have to train at all 4 to be truly considered an Avatar. At least that is how it is explained in "The Last Airbender" | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 11:36 | comment | added | Valorum | @Cherubel - There's no real explanation of how the "calling" process works. Are there multiple 'potential' avatars (like Buffy) or is each new Avatar born at the death of the former Avatar but only comes into their powers when trained? | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 11:10 | comment | added | Cherubel | @Valorum This doesn't take into account the fact that the avatars arent avatars from birth. some become avatars in childhood like Ang, but some become avatars later in life like Korra. so are you counting BA (before avatar) years or JA (just avatar years) | |
| May 20, 2016 at 13:59 | comment | added | Thomas Jacobs | Avatar Wan was born 20 years before his Harmonic Convergence, and Avatar Korra was 18 when hers took place. This means that from his birth to hers 10.002 years have passed. Divided by the 182 Avatars that there have been from Wan to Aang, this places the average life expectency of an Avatar at 54,95 years. That's not very old. And when you combine this with the old-looking Avatars we've seen that came recent in the line... that must mean that a lot of earlier Avatars did not live to a particularly old age. | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 0:45 | comment | added | user20155 | Hello, my name in Joo Dee and I have lived all my live in Ba Sing Say, and in my time here I have never heard of an "Avatar : The Last Airbender" movie. Such a thing mustn't exist. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 22:03 | vote | accept | Izumi-reiLuLu | ||
| Dec 27, 2013 at 16:19 | comment | added | Valorum | That's an excellent question. If we assume that the average mortality rate of an avatar is 53 and that the next avatar is born at the moment of the previous avatar's death then there would have been 180(ish) avatars in 10,000 years prior to the events of "The Last Airbender" (10,000 / 54 = 180ish) | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 16:15 | comment | added | user1027 | So, the answer is 182 (Aang's time) or 183 (Korra's time) then? | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 16:10 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |