History Headscratchers / AvatarTheLastAirbenderPosthumousCharacters

** Do you really think ''that's'' the version of the story Sozin told when he got back?

* So wait. If Roku is Ursa's grandfather, and Ursa had an arranged marriage with Ozai...you're telling me that Roku's family would marry off Ursa to the grandson of the man that left Roku to die and went against his wishes?

*** He was willing to let his best friend since birth die a horrible, choking, burning death so he try to conquer the world, and then he was willing to commit complete genocide on a race of peaceful monks just so said friend couldn't reincarnate and be a threat. I'm guessing that if he felt dragon-hunting would be good practice for his generals, he wouldn't give a flying crap what his mount thought.

*** Considering that the dragons are portrayed as spiritual creatures akin to skybison or badger-moles, I had a theory that Sozin's dragon turned on him after the destruction of the Air Temples and Sozin was forced to kill him/her. He then instituted the hunting as a combination of vengeance and need to prove the Fire Nation's superiority as the ''true'' masters of fire.

*** Right. Recall in the finale when Aang is talking with the previous Airbending Avatar. Even she told him that he needed to kill Ozai. Aang was particularly against killing, and to be fair, he was still just a kid who had recently discovered that his entire people had been murdered in a horrifying genocide. You can't blame him for feeling uncomfortable about killing. But in any case, it seems that while the airbenders were generally pacifists, they had no qualms about killing in self-defense.

*** The buffalo are a bad example - they were deliberately exterminated with a specific goal in mind; namely that once they were gone the Plains Indians would be forced to give up their way of life and become farmers. That particular near-extinction was no accident. As for the dragons, perhaps Sozin started seeing them as competition of sorts.

** I don't think anyone realized just how many dragons were being killed. I imagine it was a similar situation to the hunting of buffalo during the 1800s: There were so many of them that they thought that they would never run out. Sozin wanting to start a dragon hunting tradition even though he owns a dragon himself ''does'' seem a bit weird though, but hey, some people are just hypocrites. He may have wanted the Fire Nation to dominate nature as well as people. (It is the most technologically advanced nation, after all.)

* How come we didn't get a reason for the extermination of the dragons. Yes i know about the whole "prove your firebending superiority" cause, but why did Sozin feel the need to start that tradition, or others to the need to follow it. Come on, Sozin had a dragon mount, and I'm guessing that dragons got a few firebenders to the Air Temples during the comet, as well as throw some attacks around on top. Why kill off all of those magnificent beasts of carnage. Controlled hunts on fully wild dragons every few years would be understandable, but full extermination? Ever heard of conservation of game? Leave some for the next generation's fiercest masters of firebending.

** Azulon's mother would have had to be under 50 or so, unless aging and menopause work differently in the avatar world.

** It's entirely possible that he had a young wife, or even a mistress or concubine or something. Men are still fertile into very old age, since they're always producing new sperm. Also, "begat" means "give birth to," so minor correction there.

* If Roku and Sozin were born on the same day and Roku died at 70 and 12 years later was the attack on the nomads and Azulon was born that year,how young was Sozin's wife? Or did the Fire Lady really begat Sozin at 82?
** The timeline is actually pretty wanky concerning this. But I wouldn't be surprised. Old people in this universe are clearly stronger than in ours (see: Bumi, Pakku, Gyatso, Iroh, etc.)

* If Roku and Sozin were born on the same day and Roku died at 70 and 12 years later was the attack on the nomads and Azulon was born that year,how young was Sozin's wife? Or did the Fire Lady really begat Sozin at 82?

** He didn't free Zuko directly. Roku's huge heat wave weakened the chains that were trapping him, so he was able to escape. That heat wave was an attack on Zhao's soliders, and also freed Katara, Sokka and the Fire Sage that helped them.

**** He's a master airbender. It should've been a simple task to make a shaft of clean air to his face.

**** " Actually the world was fine while Kuruk was avatar. The only problem was his girlfriend got her face stolen. She didn't even die.