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First Look at New Earthbender Avatar Set After ‘Legend of Korra’

Nickelodeon has released the first look at the upcoming animated series “Avatar: Seven Havens,” the sequel series to the popular shows “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra.”

The artwork was revealed at San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, where “Avatar” celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Will consist of 26 half-hour episodes over 2 seasons
Follows Earthbending twins after a world-shattering disaster where one discovers she’s the new Avatar after Korra
More information on the show's premises in Variety article

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If you're an earth bender and you lost a leg, wouldn't you be able to bend yourself a prosthetic made of earth? One that could actually articulate, unlike a peg-leg.
- Probably easier to metal bend one. At least it won't fall apart when you stop concentrating.
  
  Easier for other people to bend, too. Get a wooden one and keep it dry. Nobody bends wood.
  
  Perhaps, but not every earth bender is a metal bender
- I think it'd require constant focus that a kid her age probably isn't capable of consistently. Maybe after a lot of training she won't need the prosthetic
  
  Yeah.
  I think that's gonna be a huge thing. This is 'Avatar' through the lens of a really young kid, and I suspect she won't be 'conspicuously mature' like the Gaang. But we'll have the perspective of older mentors, too, kinda like Tenzin.
- Probably going to be used as character development. That is my guess.
  An elemental leg is too cool to pass up
- Partial Rock Avatar
- Don't you need a strong physical connection to the ground in order to earth bend?
  Might be difficult with only one leg.
  
  Well if you bend the earth up to be in contact with the stump you'll have just as much contact with the ground as before. I don't think it's impossible to earth bend with just one leg.

Calling crystal-benders right now.
Don't pick that phone up before it rings, cuz I'm fucking calling it.
- We've already had that
  
  throws controller at the TV

Wait, is this the new avatar in the foreground? Are we* getting a disabled avatar? Hell yeah!!
- Yes!
- i feel it's kinda telling that my immediate first thought was "huh? but toph- ohh right, not the avatar"
  did aang ever pull off anything on the scale that toph did? that whole "holding up an entire fucking underground library" thing feels like it was only really topped by kyoshi splitting off her island
  
  Yeah I mean Avatar has been good about showing disabled characters before, but depicting the main hero character as disabled is pretty awesome imo.

That background character is definitely Airbender coded
- Looks like Airbender garb remodeled after the pro bending armor from Korra.
  I'm guessing this is a guide from the white lotus.
  
  Rumored to be named ::: spoiler spoiler Jae, ::: , per the leaks.
- True, I didnt notice that but now that you say it

ooo, the artwork style is feeling very Moebius
- I was about to say, the color scheme is VERY moebius inspired. The world looks almost alien, it's going to be an interesting take on the franchise.

I love the giant monkey cat. She rides it around like Naga in a leaked animatic.
I also have a theory (not just on appearance but a leaked casting call) that she's of Guru Pathik's heritage, perhaps Eastern Earth Kingdom? Pre Cataclysm, the coast should be tropical and typhoon-prone, aka an east asian feel. Not sure where this city is though... maybe the climate changed, or maybe it's somewhere else.

In these worlds that we love i always think it would be cool to get a spinoff from the perspective of normies, too.
- An anthology series where each episode, or portion of an episode, is just a small personal story set in the a avatar universe should be take nice and fun. Think "The Tales of Ba Sing Se", but about ground level events of citizens of different nations and times, focusing on a new, usually unrelated character in each episode. It would be a great way to world build without needing an avatar to be around all the time. It wouldn't have to be exclusively about non-benders, but should always be about people doing good.
  Just simple stuff like: A sheep-monkey herder in the outskirts of the Earth kingdom defending her flock from hunting rat-wolves. Then she rescues a newborn sheep-monkey that gets washed away in a river during the attack. It ends with her sitting vigilant on a grassy hill, the newborn asleep on her lap, it's mother napping at her side, and surrounded by the rest of her flock also sleeping, secure under her watchful eye.
  
  Something like that would be awesome but if pribably way too expensive/risky to produce as an animated show. Could work well as a comic however

I’m surprised they are able to use the Avatar name again. They had to drop it for Korra due to James Cameron.
I was also hoping the show would have dual avatars as the twins, each with two elements. It would solve some of the story roadblocks of them having to find reasons why they can’t just go into the avatar state all the time. Would have been cool if the avatar state only worked when both of them are next to each other.
- They only dropped the Avatar title in the US. Everywhere else, it was Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Might wind up with the same thing here. James Cameron also might only have the rights to the Avatar name for movies and not television.
- I was also hoping the show would have dual avatars as the twins, each with two elements.
  
  I really liked this too, but someone talked me out of this idea for a fic, actually. The reasoning being that this is the Earth Avatar Cycle, so it would be almost canon breaking for one to not have earthbending. They wouldn't go through the stages of learning each element, it would kinda throw out the "four elements" synergy and fights and lore. They reminded me that the trope of twins being very close and "two parts of a whole" actually irritates many RL twins (hence's Ty Lee's character).
  So my take is twins that each have four elements, but inclinations to two each, as well as yin yang kind of personality conflicts.
  
  But two people can't have four elements. Where is the second spirit coming from?
  
  I don’t think you can really get away from the tropes when you pick twins, given their situation. There’s plenty of “evil twin cases” as well in media. If anything I would assumed twins not getting along would be more prominent. I’ve started to see some instances where twins exist in a medium, and they are just there and not the main focus as well.
  As for lore breaking, I think the show breaking their lore would be fine. Having a third show that follows the rules strictly would get boring. For the franchise to work it would have to keep evolving and growing. We already had Korra break and restart the avatar cycle, so no one can connect directly with the lives before her anymore.

The only thing I can't make out is what kind of era it takes place in.
Aang was set in Feudal Japan, Korra was in the industrial revolution.
I'd love for them to go back to feudal times, but I know that wouldn't make sense.
- It's post-apocalyptic, from some kind of spiritual disaster.
  
  What doesn't make sense is wouldn't Kora be the spiritual disaster?
- Post apocalypse from what I've heard.

I am 100% pumped to see where this goes. I don't care if they do what they always do with 99% of the villains and completely cop out on their ideals at the end, I just wanna see post apocalyptic Avatar.

When will it release?
- 2027 at the earliest, I believe. Next year will have an animated movie featuring the original ATLA characters, and then this is the next announced project afterwards

Oof, I'm not really feeling the art style, seems a little cluttered. I get that it needs to adapt to the contemporary landscape of animation though I was hoping they stayed with the more grounded look of the previous series. I'll still watch, hoping the story is really good.
- It's just concept art. The show's style will be different, see the original LoK promo:
  Or the early sketches for characters: https://old.reddit.com/r/legendofkorra/comments/j9vw8j/korra_book_1_concepts/
  That said, I love this promo. The full res version looks much better, if you havent' seen it: https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Aurora_Press1_06_04_25_Horizontal-1.jpg
  
  I mean, I don't hate it and I appreciate the references it's pulling from. This particular image is just doing too much for me; and I get it, it's introducing us to a whole bunch of new info and is concept art; but I wish it was more subtle. Just my personal taste, no biggie. I have a lot of love for the stories of this universe, I watched when the og show debuted and I'm aware that the new stuff is not gonna cater completely to me, regardless I'll be seated.
- to be brutally honest it feels like the cover of a generic (young) children's fantasy book, it's too.. grand and colourful
  i think it's also that the protagonist looks so realistically young, Aang was 12 when he came out of the iceberg but he didn't really look 12 and only sorta acted his age for a few episodes, because otherwise it'd be kinda grating to watch as an adult and espically as an older teenager..

Nice!

Looks good but not hand drawn, sadly.
Also, the shrinkflation hits hard this time. That's half the total runtime of the previous shows.
- Looks good but not hand drawn, sadly.
  Hm? I'd bet it's drawn by one of the co-creators. Check out their Tumblrs, they draw stuff like this all the time for fun.
  Here is the full press image (recommend opening it in a tab, it's big):
  https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Aurora_Press1_06_04_25_Horizontal-1.jpg
  
  Oh yes, that looks way better!
  
  Thanks for the link to the full press image, Bruce! I grabbed a version of the image to post that I thought was the HD one without the Comic Con logo, but apparently it wasnt the best one out there.

Oh wow, this looks great. Can't wait to watch it!

I don't have much hope for this after LoK. But I do like how Korra sucked as the avatar so much. She made an apocalypse happen. Maybe leaving the spirit portals open was a bad idea.
- LoK is super under rated. Season 2 is a bit of a slog but the rest of it is great.
  
  The fandom, especially the subreddit, has a lot of negative groupthink for anything but ATLA, kinda like the hardcore Star Wars trilogy fans. I don’t think that represents the net view of LoK, as it was very different as it premiered, and general sentiment like IMDB seems to skew much higher.
  It does make me worry for Seven Havens' reception, as the setting/lore is an even more radical departure. There’s going to be tons of nitpicking/peeling apart.

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