History WMG / AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch

After Azulon's demonstration, Azulon would have seen Azula as the success of his genetic experiment and would have therefore decided to dispose of Luten and then Zuko to weed out what he saw as experimental failures and ensure that the Fire Lord's line would continue through her alone. Azulon was the only person who could have arranged for Luten's death in a way that no one would find out. Had Ozai had done it Iroh would have found out from someone who was loyal to him after all he was the crown prince and only way this could of happened is if the orders were from above Iroh.

** Jossed. She was halluncinating.

* [[spoiler:Jossed.]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed, Azula is still perfectly capable of bending.]]

The other is that Ozai is DangerouslyGenreSavvy and is fully aware that it's impossible that Ursa could have met Ikem. He concludes (or realizes it after their argument in Vol.2) that she lied to him just to force him to confront her over her letters and decides that if she can be that GenreSavvy then she deserves some particularly painful treatment. For her disobedience and potentially scandalous words, he decides to punish her by taking all his wrath out on Zuko, treating him badly before her just so that he can give her more pain than any abuse he could inflict on her directly. He wanted to show her what he would have done to Zuko had her letter been indeed true and went ahead with it being the monster he was. Zuko's early difficulties with bending would have added fuel to whatever Ozai had in mind. Zuko thus became the center of his parent's feud.

The other is that Ozai is DangerouslyGenreSavvy and is fully aware that it's impossible that Ursa could have met Ikem. He concludes (or realizes it after their argument in Vol.2) that she lied to him just to force him to confront her over her letters and decides that if she can be that GenreSavvy then she deserves some particularly painful treatment. For her disobedience and potentially scandalous words, he decides to punish her by taking all his wrath out on Zuko, treating him badly before her just so that he can give her more pain than any abuse he could inflict on her directly. He wanted to show her what he would have done to Zuko had her letter been indeed true and went ahead with it being the CompleteMonster he was. Zuko's early difficulties with bending would have added fuel to whatever Ozai had in mind. Zuko thus became the center of his parent's feud.

* Although [[spoiler: [[StarWars from a certain point of view]] you could say she ''did'' "die" as she was mind-wiped when she became Noriko without any memory of her past other than her love for Ikem/Noren. Ursa ceased to be until Mother of Faces returned her identity.]]

* [[spoiler:Played with. Ozai was well aware that the letter was BlatantLies, but, as a punishment to Ursa, decided to treat Zuko as if he wasn't his son.]]

* Jossed in Part 3. Ursa had lost her memory and didn't even know who Zuko and Azula were, so there's no way she could've been communicating with her. It really was just Azula's hallucination.

On the assumption that the previous WMGs about Ikem and Ursa are true, then Kyi is at the very least Zuko's half sister. Hints in this regard are how Zuko takes a liking to the child and her dolls and how she gets so friendly with him that she tugs his arm at the end and wants to know if he'll come back. It's definitely full of those "older brother vibes".

* Secondary WMG: Her visions of Ursa might actually be her own repressed conscience. Or Ursa herself is trying to act as her moral conscience as she has become too confused and misguided.

[[WMG: Zuko is Ozai's son but the letter caused Ozai to cross yet another MoralEventHorizon and take his wrath on Ursa by disowning Zuko instead. The UnfortunateImplications of letter resulted in Zuko's preferential treatment and all his misery]]
There are two possible ways of doing this. One is that after reading that letter Ozai began to consider that Zuko was no longer his son and therefore began to treat him like a low class child. The other is that Ozai is GenreSavvy enough to know that there's no way Ursa could have met Ikem and that she lied to him just to force him to confront her over her letters. For her disobedience and potentially scandalous words, he decides to punish her by taking all his wrath out on Zuko, treating him badly before her just so that he can give her more pain than any abuse he could inflict on her directly. He wanted to show her what he would have done had her letter been indeed true and went ahead with it being the CompleteMonster he was. Zuko's early difficulties with bending would have added fuel to Ozai's ideas. Zuko became the center of his parent's feud and the letter paved the way for all his suffering. Either of these would certainly explain Ozai's favoritism of Azula and his cruelty to Zuko. The letter basically led Ozai to disown his son and cross a new MoralEventHorizon yet again, as he has done virtually every time he gets story space.

Iroh's bereavement gives him an excellent chance to infuriate his father into ordering Zuko's death. Later he confronts Ursa and reveals he plans to go ahead with Azulon's order to kill Zuko. He accuses her of blackmail and threatens her with Zuko's death for her attempts at creating a scandal. Or she could let Zuko live but face exile. Alternatively, he may threaten to kill her instead. However, both know that Azulon will ensure that Zuko dies either way. So Ursa is forced to come up with her plan -- by enabling Ozai to become the fire Lord, her sentence may be reduced to banishment so she goes ahead and kills Azulon. The whole plot was a XanatosGambit set up by [[MagnificentBastard Ozai so that he could become Firelord and finally be rid of her influence.]]

This came after thinking about Zuko's dream from the Promise. It's clear that there are several forces at work plotting their own {{XanatosGambit}}s to steer the fate of the fire nation in their respective directions. In Ursa's case, when she finds out that her parents are dead and she is now all alone, she finds a way to contact her grandfather Avatar Roku for advice. In all the circumstances that follow, Avatar Roku is the ManBehindTheMan and is secretly trying to ensure that Azula does not get the throne. Feeling responsible for failing to stop Sozin, Roku, now as a spirit, advises his granddaughter Ursa into plotting to ensure that the Fire Nation does not fall into the hands of a dangerous lunatic like Azula while trying to get her to throw off her "mask" (which would be Ursa's own personal concern). This is in direct opposition to the Ozai-Azula duo's plan of trying to make Zuko's lineage null and void by declaring him an illegitimate son of Ursa.

They hid Ursa in their house for a while and maybe they somehow got her reunited with Ikem. Later they were interrogated by Vachir when he came to the village and that's how he found out about Forgetful Valley -- maybe he tortured them or burned their house down in the process. Hence Noren is very suspicious of anyone who comes inquiring about know about Ikem or Ursa probably thinking that the fire nation still wants to hunt them down. Azula's attitude is definitely helping his fears.