Avatar Returns to Novels with F.C. Yee’s Legacy of Yangchen

Though Paramount is eager to proceed Avatar: The Last Airbender by way of extra reveals and movies, the action-fantasy sequence additionally has a quantity of books and comics which have helped construct out its world and historical past. Since 2019, Amulet Books has been placing out YA novels dubbed Chronicles of the Avatar which have targeted on the predecessors of Aang and Korra. The first pair of novels targeted on the fan-favorite Kyoshi of the Earth Kingdom as she got here into her identification because the grasp of all 4 parts, and now the following guide will conclude the story of Yangchen.

F.C. Yee’s upcoming novel, The Legacy of Yangchen, picks up after the occasions of 2022’s Dawn of Yangchen. After efficiently bringing peace to town of Bin-Er, the Air Nomad is working to discover the weapon identified solely as Unanimity and cease it earlier than conflict throughout the Four Nations breaks free. But when the weapon is unleashed and utilized in an assassination try, Yangchen has no selection however to go to her frenemy Kavik for assist. As written within the novel’s description, Yangchen will “chart the course of her legacy, finally making peace with her choices and facing Avatarhood with the courage it demands.”

With how the Chronicles books have served as a means for the Avatar sequence to stay on till a brand new present arrives from Paramount or Netflix, it’s possible the books will proceed on after Yangchen’s adventures wrap up. Going by the fundamental order, which means a Fire Nation or Water Tribe Avatar can be up subsequent—the previous has Roku (Aang’s direct predecessor) or Szeto to its identify, whereas Kuruk hails from the latter. But there are different Avatars talked about all through Yee’s books whose nationalities have but to be revealed, and perhaps they’ll headline a novel throughout the subsequent couple of years.

Avatar: The Legacy of Yangchen will launch in shops and digital on July 18. You can learn the primary chapter in its entirety over on Polygon.

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