Fire, Air, Water, Earth.
My father told me about the time of the Avatar, a time of peace between men and spirits. Avatar Korra guided the Four Nations through war and strife, and along with her friends brought the world into balance for a new age of peace and prosperity. Then everything changed when the Spirit World was attacked.
Only the Avatar, master of all four elements could have stopped them, but when the world needed her most she perished. Twenty years have passed since then, and both worlds have been thrown into upheaval. Angry spirits rampage across the world, and terrible storms wrack the seas and coasts.
Many believe that the chaos in the spirit world has destroyed the Avatar, and that the cycle is broken. But there are those of us who have not lost hope that the Avatar will return and save the world.
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Thank you for taking interest in this thread. I will expound a bit upon the above opening: This roleplay takes place roughly 150 years after the events of The Legend of Korra, during a new age of Cold War between the United Republic and Future Industries and the Four Nations. An invasion of the Spirit World by Future Industries and the subsequent mining of it for valuable and rare resources has thrown both worlds into upheaval, driving the Spirits mad with rage and causing terrible geological effects wrack the Earth. Worse, Avatar Korra, now old and alone, was slain in the opening battles of the invasion, crippling the invading force with her last efforts.
Now, twenty years after the death of the Avatar the time has come and gone for a new Avatar to arise and restore the balance, but none has appeared. Future Industries has become the dominant power in the world, directly controlling the United Republic of Nations and wielding vast power of its own. With their power has come a new age of technology, from wireless communications and firearms to computers and internet. Jet aircraft, rocketry, cybernetics, spirit power, satellites, all are facts of life. Whispers speak of experiments in Future Industries laboratories that push these boundaries, life created and people cloned, beings engineered to have new capabilities, and more.
To put this into a simple sentence, this is Avatar in a Cyberpunk setting.
I intend to have a more in-depth opening post when I open the thread up. In the meantime there is one concern I need to address - The Avatar. The Avatar will be a major character within this roleplay, and for reasons that are likely rather obvious I do not want to play the Avatar myself. To that end those of you who are interested who wish to play the Avatar please PM me your interest.
