The Southern Air Temple Sub Download

• Northern Air TemplePhysical informationLocationNorthern Earth Kingdom mountainsGovernmentPositionDestroyed by Ghazan in 171 AG

• Colonized by Earth Kingdom refugees (formerly)

• Inhabited by Air Acolytes (formerly)

• Training center for newly recruited airbenders (formerly)

• LeaderNorthern Council of Elders (formerly)

• The mechanist (formerly)

First appearance"The Northern Air Temple"Location on map(view on map)Image gallery (40)The Northern Air Temple was one of the four original temples that belonged to the Air Nomads. Located in the mountains along the northern coast of the Earth Kingdom continent,[2] this temple was one of the two temples that traditionally housed male airbenders, the other being the Southern Air Temple.[2][3] Its original population, however, was wiped out at the beginning of the Hundred Year War, during the Air Nomad Genocide. The temple was later inhabited by a group of Earth Kingdom refugees led by the mechanist, who settled there after their own village was destroyed by a flood. The Northern Air Temple was the site where many important technological advancements in the world took place.[1]

The temple was later restored to its former glory by Avatar Aang and the Air Acolytes after the Hundred Year War[4] and, after airbending resurfaced in nonbending citizens following the Harmonic Convergence in 171 AG, it became the training grounds for those new at the art.[5] However, when the Red Lotus arrived, the building was eventually destroyed by Ghazan, who used his lavabending to destroy the temple's foundations, which eventually led to the building's collapse.[6]

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The Northern Air Temple was built thousands of years before the Hundred Year War by Air Nomad monks, who used the structure mainly as a training ground for young airbenders. The temple was noted for its design, which harmoniously integrated its natural surroundings into the structure; the large hallways would harness the wind and allow air to flow naturally through the building.[2]

Around 3,829 BG, the temple was the home of Laghima, the legendary guru and poet,[7] though he would later relocate to a nearby mountain where he lived alone.[8] Laghima eventually discovered the secret to weightlessness and lived the last forty years of his life untethered to the ground,[7] and several statues and monuments were subsequently built near the Northern Air Temple to honor him.[6]

In the early era of Yangchen, the nearby Earth Kingdom city of Bin-Er was designated as one of four shang cities open to limited amounts of international trade between the Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Water Tribes. With so much poverty, suffering and corruption in Bin-Er, many illegally left the city, not being able to obtain exit passes to the control office. Many made their way to the lands under temple protection, and so many were injured on the dangerous trek that the hospital in the main village at the base of the temple grew to around twice as large as what its usual capacity would have been.[11]

Avatar Yangchen came to the temple before making her first official visit to the shang cities, leaving her lemurs, Pik and Pak, in the care of the monks. She and Abbot Sonam talked about the dangers of Bin-Er, the "city of spies". Yangchen returned to the temple after her first meeting with the shangs, meeting up with her new companion and informant, Kavik. Sonam disapproved of her bringing a spy so close to the temple grounds, but he and Kavik helped the Avatar heal a woman with a raging fever who had lost her son on the journey. After sending out another search party, Yangchen prepared for her next stop on her official tour of the shang cities, and made her way to Jonduri with a delegation from the Northern Air Temple.[11][9]

Yangchen returned once more to the temple after dealing with the Unanimity project, the shangs' secret plan to break free from the other nations with a powerful display of combustionbending, a completely unknown power. Yangchen told Earth King Feishan that the incident was a spiritual disturbance, and could only divulge the truth behind of Unanimity to the Air Nomads, a nation with no connection to the shangs. Zongdu Henshe was confined to a room in a stone structure part of the air temple, while the combustionbenders, Yingsu, Xiaoyun, and Thapa, were placed in hamlets around the temple that were inaccessible other than via flying mount, and watched over by monks renowned for their martial prowess. Sonam was disappointed in Yangchen for having made jailers of them, warning the Avatar that if the monks got a taste for holding domination over another human being, they would cease to be Air Nomads. However, he did tell Yangchen that the woman she healed had found her son, which strengthened her resolve to help others.[12][10]

During the era of Kyoshi, the Air Nomads valued detachment from the world so much that they led a near-total policy of isolationism and staying out of the worldly affairs of the other nations. This was keenly felt at the Northern Air Temple, where the influential Monk Namthöse of the Council of Elders was an avid proponent of this policy, and actively discouraged young airbenders from absorbing too much outside news in fear of them becoming distracted from their paths. Namthöse went so far as to attempt to instate a rule allowing only Air Nomads to visit the Northern Air Temple. Foreigners who had business with the temple found it hard to get in touch with anyone other than those who the monk deemed appropriate.[13]

During the era of Roku, the temples' philosophy had completely changed, and they now forged close ties with the leaders of the other nations in hopes of reaching more people and helping as many as the Air Nomads could. All temples, including the North, supported the building of the Fire & Air Center of Learning to promote Air Nomad teachings in the Fire Nation.[15] The order known as the Guiding Wind broke from the temples and sought to break the growing ties between the Air Nomads and elites of the world, believing that such relations had impeded the spiritual growth of all peoples, but the North viewed them as too extreme.[16] Air Nomads from the Northern Temple came to support Avatar Roku in mediating an end to the Northern Passage conflict between the Northern Water Tribe and the Earth Kingdom state of Chenbao when war threatened to break out following a devastating tsunami on the northern Earth Kingdom coast, with each nation blaming the other's benders.[15]

After the extermination of the original population, the surrounding area was regularly patrolled by the Fire Army. A group of Knowledge Seekers managed to find an ancient airbender training tool from the ruins of the temple before it could be destroyed by Fire Nation soldiers, stealing the artifact from them in the night. The Knowledge Seekers brought the airbender tool back to Wan Shi Tong's Library, where it was successfully preserved.[17] The temple complex was later rediscovered by a group of refugees led by the mechanist around 89 AG,[2] after which it was extensively modified from its original state to accommodate the lifestyle of the new residents. As the mechanist added new inventions, the temple underwent many technological upgrades, which often required the destruction or expansion of many original structures. While searching for signs of the Avatar, the Fire Nation eventually discovered the temple's established refugee population and threatened to destroy their new home; however, the mechanist was able to make a deal with the military, in which he would design weapons for the Fire Lord in exchange for letting his people live in peace.[18]

The mechanist used the airbender staffs he found within to make his own gliders and give his paraplegic son Teo a new life in the air. During the years the refugees lived in the temple, some were eventually seen gliding around it by other Earth Kingdom villagers, who came to call them "air walkers". Hopeful to see other survivors of the Air Nomad Genocide, Aang, Katara, and Sokka traveled to the Northern Air Temple, where they discovered that the "air walkers" were just the gliding refugees.

They met up with Teo, who proudly showed them around the temple and its many innovations. Sokka was immediately enthralled by the changes. Aang, however, was angered and saddened by them as they had destroyed part of his people's history; he saw them as a violation of the temple's original sanctity. In an attempt to cheer Aang up, Teo took him and Katara to the inner sanctuary of the temple, convinced that, since it could only be opened by airbending, it was still untouched by the technology. Aang eventually agreed to open the sanctuary. However, inside they found a storage room for Fire Nation weapons instead of ancient Air Nomad relics.

The mechanist explained that the Fire Nation had found the Northern Air Temple about a year after the Earth Kingdom refugees made it their home, and that the Fire Nation had threatened to destroy everything by burning the temple to the ground. In an attempt to save the settlement, the mechanist had offered his services. The Fire Nation had been extorting him to manufacture weapons for them ever since, under the threat of an attack if he did not comply.

After Aang forcefully expelled War Minister Qin, the representative of the Fire Nation, thereby terminating the partnership between the mechanist and the Fire Nation, the latter gave action to the threat and launched an attack against the temple. Although they initially managed to hold the Fire Nation forces at bay with their control over the sky, the defenders were no match for the Fire Nation's tundra tanks. In a last attempt to repel the advancing army, Sokka and the mechanist, piloting the first made hot air balloon, threw their fuel source overboard to ignite the natural gas pocket held in a cave beneath the temple. Their venture succeeded as the explosion blew up part of the mountain, destroying the only path to the temple and forcing the Fire Nation to retreat, thereby protecting it from future attacks. The temple remained unscathed by Fire Nation attack and the subsequent explosion.[1] 2ff7e9595c