The Subsequent Avatar Collection Has a New Identify, and a New Hero

11 years after The Legend of Korra got here to an finish, the cycle of the Avatar continues yet one more: after years of teasing and planning, Nickelodeon is able to introduce the world to a model new Avatar collection.

Deadline experiences that this morning Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios introduced that its subsequent main venture is Avatar: Seven Havens, a 26-episode, 2D animated TV collection that may mark the subsequent main chronological leap within the Avatar timeline after the occasions of The Final Airbender and Legend of Korra. Franchise co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will develop the collection.

Seven Havens can be set in an apocalyptic world devastated by a cataclysm that has torn the each the human and spirit worlds asunder, with the remnants of civilization holding out from whole annihilation within the titular strongholds all through the world. A younger feminine Earthbender, at present unnamed, will star as the subsequent heir of the powers of the Avatar–the transcendental re-incarnating hero of future who instructions the facility to concurrently wield the 4 elemental bending arts of Fireplace, Earth, Air, and Water–solely to search out that on this cataclysmic age, the mantle of the Avatar is a portent of doom and destruction, reasonably than a savior.

On the run as she is pursued by each human and spirit forces, the brand new Avatar can be joined within the collection by her long-lost twin sibling, as they uncover their very own mysterious origins and hyperlinks to the Avatar Cycle, and discover a strategy to save their world earlier than the Seven Havens collapse totally.

“After we created the unique collection, we by no means imagined we’d nonetheless be increasing the world many years later,” DiMartino and Konietzko stated in a press release supplied by Nickelodeon. “This new incarnation of the Avatarverse is stuffed with fantasy, thriller, and a complete new solid of wonderful characters. Get able to take one other epic and emotional journey!”

Seven Havens will, within the fashion of Final Airbender and Korra earlier than it, be cut up into seasons known as “Books”, with each comprising of 13 half-hour episodes. It’s at present unknown if Seven Havens‘ 26-episode run is all that’s deliberate, or if there may be potential for the collection to proceed past the currently-planned two seasons. The Final Airbender and Legend of Korra ran for 3 and 4 seasons, respectively.

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