Roku tells Aang that some friendships are so strong, that they can transcend lifetimes.Ī young Roku and Gyatso enjoy their airbending training.Īfter several years mastering airbending, Roku traveled to the Northern Water Tribe where he learned waterbending from his master. When Gyatso shows Roku a new trick he came up with, flipping his airbender staff around and standing on it during a gliding lesson, Aang realizes that he was airsurfing and marvels at how he had never thought of that himself. There he became friends with young Gyatso, a fact that surprises and delights young Aang. Roku began his journey at the Southern Air Temple, training to master airbending. Hoping the Avatar could at least keep something on his person, Sozin gave Roku a gift: the hair ornament customarily worn by the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, a Royal Family heirloom. Roku had started packing in preparation, but was then told by the Fire Sages that he would not be needing any worldly possessions. Sozin visited Roku before he was supposed to leave and found him dispirited. The two friends were forced to separate as Roku had to leave the Fire Nation to master the other three elements. On their sixteenth birthday, Roku's identity as the Avatar was revealed by the Fire Sages. They even shared the same birthday, which they celebrated together. Sozin gives the Crown Prince headpiece to Roku.Īs Zuko reads the record, Roku shows Aang a flashback of his youth, showing him practicing his firebending with Crown Prince Sozin. Eluding them, Zuko infiltrates the catacombs and finds in Sozin's section ' The Final Testament of Fire Lord Sozin', an autobiographical record of his life. The lamp's heat reveals a hidden message in invisible ink, telling him to go to the Dragonbone Catacombs to find the secret history kept by the Fire Sages. In frustration, he tosses the unrolled scroll back to the table he has been keeping it on, where it drapes over the lit lamp on it. Zuko mulls over the mysterious message to himself that night in his room, unsure of what it means. He asks her if she knows how their great-grandfather Fire Lord Sozin died, and she reminds him what they learned in school: he died a very old man, peacefully in his sleep. Zuko visits a portrait gallery of the past Fire Lords the next day and is greeted by his sister Azula. He rushes out to see who it is and finds a scroll sitting on the floor, telling him he must find out about his great-grandfather's death in order to understand his own destiny.

As the solstice begins, Aang meditates and meets Roku in the Spirit World.Īt the Fire Nation palace, Zuko is awoken by the noise of someone outside his bedroom door. Upon arriving, the gang is puzzled not to see anything until Toph senses there is an entire village buried beneath the volcanic ash of the island's shore. Roku instructs Aang to travel to the former's old home, a deserted volcanic island, during the summer solstice. SynopsisĪang is visited in a dream by Roku, who tells him it is time the current Avatar learns about his past life's history with Fire Lord Sozin. Iroh explains to Zuko that the legacy of the struggle between Roku and the latter's paternal great-grandfather, Sozin, lives on as the struggle between good and evil within Zuko himself. Zuko discovers that Roku is his maternal great-grandfather. After Aang receives a vision from his predecessor, Roku, and Zuko receives a letter from Iroh, they each learn about the relationship between Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin their childhood friendship, falling out, and Sozin's eventual betrayal of Roku to his death.

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