When was katara born

After reaching the Earth Kingdom's capital, Katara first helped to thwart another of Qin's plans, by helping destroy the Fire Nation Drill , before being welcomed into the city. A battle ensued where Aang was mortally wounded by Azula's lightning, before he and Katara managed to escape. Katara being approached by the real Painted Lady. After the fall of Ba Sing Se, Katara spent her time trying to heal an unconscious Aang while aboard a stolen Fire Nation ship with the rest of Team Avatar and several other allies, including her own father.

Katara was forced to use the art against Hama in order to save Aang and Sokka from harm. After the failed invasion, Katara and her friends retreated to the Western Air Temple , where they started searching for a new firebending master to teach Aang, and unexpectedly found one in Zuko, who introduced himself as an ally. The relationship between Zuko and Katara was at first intense and troublesome, with Katara determined to never forgive Zuko for his betrayal in Ba Sing Se.

Although she did confront the man, she hesitated from ending his life, but was able to move past her grief, and her grudge against Zuko. The team watched a play performed by the Ember Island Players , with Katara growing embarrassed and annoyed while viewing an exaggerated caricature of herself. While freezing her opponent in ice, Katara was able to chain the princess to the grate before rushing to Zuko and healing him. She followed Aang outside the tea shop and embraced him.

The pair subsequently looked at each other lovingly before she instigated a romantic kiss, beginning the couple's formal relationship. Katara's vision of her and Aang in the future changed her mind about the Harmony Restoration Movement. In the year following the war's conclusion, Katara and Team Avatar helped Fire Nation colonials resettle in their homeland in the Harmony Restoration Movement. However, when the group came to Yu Dao , they were attacked by Fire Army soldiers and confronted by Zuko.

Aang and Zuko began to battle, but Katara managed to calm her boyfriend after he entered the Avatar State. The Fire Lord explained that unlike in the newer colonies, people of Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom descent had been living together for generations. Though Katara grew somewhat jealous, she realized that they reminded Aang of his people.

The couple failed to dissuade the Earth King from attacking the Fire Nation colonies and returned to Yu Dao to evacuate its citizens, where they were confronted by the Yu Dao Resistance before they explained the impending attack.

As the armies arrived, Katara told him that she saw their own future as a couple of different nations reflected in the families of Yu Dao. As the battle raged on, Katara propelled herself up to the Earth King's war balloon to help convince him that he was fighting a battle against his own nation.

Katara restrained Azula during her psychotic episode on the journey to Hira'a. Sometime later, Zuko invited Katara, Sokka, and Aang on a search for his mother. As they readied to depart, Katara was horrified to see Azula, apparently escaped, but Zuko explained that she was coming with them in return for obtaining information from Ozai.

Katara was unhappy with her coming with the team and helped to apprehend Azula during her psychotic episodes on their journey to Hira'a. As they ventured into the environment, the group was attacked by their surroundings, though Katara deduced that it was the work of a waterbender, and Rafa and Misu showed themselves. The ancient spirit began to battle the group, but it was halted when the spirit was reminded of her son Koh. Rafa's face was restored and Noriko was given back her memories and appearance as Ursa.

Although Azula had escaped, Katara and Aang remained optimistic that she had begun to change. Katara happily took part in a bowing ceremony as part of Yangchen's Festival in the Yue Bay area.

The team returned to Yu Dao after the conclusion of peace talks and the formation of the coalition government. After a banquet, she found Aang meditating, who told her that he had seen a vision of Avatar Yangchen.

Katara consoled Aang when they found an industrial town built on previously sacred ground, and was surprised to see her childhood friends Niyok and Nutha in the area. She discovered an iron ore mine during the fight, but the area was unstable and began to cave in, with Katara and several others only being saved by Toph's earthbending.

As a dangerous storm brewed on the horizon, Katara helped evacuate the town's houses and businesses before the arrival of General Old Iron. After the spirit's defeat, she reminisced with Niyok and Nutha and lent her emotional support to Aang in his challenging situation.

Katara inspired Siku and Sura to waterbend. Katara and Sokka returned to Ba Sing Se for some time afterward, where they prepared to return home for the first time since they left the South Pole. The siblings reunited with their grandmother, step-grandfather, and father, and met Maliq and Malina , who were managing the redevelopment project. Katara expressed skepticism for the project, as she had seen foreign workers harassing the locals.

After Malina was robbed, Katara and Sokka chased the thief to an abandoned ship, where Gilak and Thod explained that they believed that foreigners were making them weak and they had to be removed.

The siblings escaped Gilak's men and headed back to the city, where they were surprised to discover their father's romantic relationship with Malina. Aang also arrived in the South, following the end of the threat in the Fire Nation, as well as Toph, aiding in the construction. At a festival, Gilak's men attacked, chi blocking Katara and stabbing Hakoda. Katara participated in the skirmish at the Bridge of No Return , managing to save Malina from falling into a ravine.

Afterward, she managed to inspire Siku and Sura to display their waterbending skills. Katara asked Aang to be sure he was making the right decision about removing Liling 's bending. The group was stunned to see the growth of the town and Earthen Fire Industries, though they learned that the city was threatened with turf wars between bending gangs and an increasing social divide between benders and nonbenders. She was awoken by a large explosion at Lao Beifong's factory shortly after their arrival and helped to put out the fire.

Toph had discovered a planned bending supremacist rally , which Katara attended in disguise along with Aang and Toph. Toph confronted Liling at the rally, leading to a fight where the businesswoman was captured.

After the woman escaped, Katara helped to battle Liling's supporters and convinced Aang to stop when he entered the Avatar State to remove Liling's bending. Following Liling's final arrest, the group felt a special connection to the city and decided to stay, helping Cranefish Town grow and prosper into a metropolis later known as Republic City.

Katara and Aang had three children by the time they were in their early thirties: Bumi , Kya , and Tenzin. Sometime after the Harmony Restoration Movement, Katara married Aang and gave birth to three children: Bumi, a nonbender who gained the ability to airbend later in life; Kya, a waterbender; and Tenzin, who was born an airbender like his father.

She passed on these skills to her only daughter, Kya, who became a renowned waterbender in her own right. In AG, Katara wrote a letter to include in the book that Aang was assembling for Tenzin, in which she wished her son the joys of youth and the strength to accept his legacy as one of the world's last airbenders.

Aang noted that conflict resolution was not always so easy, but Katara told him to settle the easy disputes for now, as Tenzin was still young. Through Tenzin, who eventually married Pema , she became the paternal grandmother of Jinora , Ikki , Meelo , and Rohan.

Katara trained Korra in waterbending outside of her family's hut in the Southern Water Tribe. During one of her early training sessions with a young Korra, Katara taught her that waterbending was all about slow and calm movements. Her lesson did not stick with the Avatar, however, as she accidentally buried Katara under a pile of snow, not for the first time, when she tried to copy the elder's moves. Uncovering the elder, Senna apologized for her daughter, though Katara brushed it off, noting that she had battled more dangerous waterbenders during her life than the youngster and expressing her confidence that the Avatar will learn to control her abilities in time.

The session got cut short by Tonraq that day, as a snowstorm was heading their way. Upon learning the next day that Korra had sneaked out during the bad weather, Katara joined Tonraq and Senna during their search for their daughter.

Discovering the young Avatar safe and sound with a polar bear pup whom she desired to keep, Katara took the reluctant Tonraq and Senna aside and convinced them to let her bring the animal home, noting that every Avatar had had an animal guide and that raising Naga may be exactly what the high-energy Avatar needed. Korra often spent a lot of time in Katara's healing hut growing up, where she taught Korra to mend wounds and broken bones.

Katara told the Order of the White Lotus that Korra was ready to start her airbending training with Tenzin. She noted the Avatar's ferocity, to which the White Lotus leader responded that she also lacked restraint. After Korra defeated her opponents, the White Lotus turned to Katara for counsel, wondering whether or not they should let Korra start her airbending training with Tenzin, since the young Avatar had yet to grasp the spiritual side of bending.

Confident in her son's abilities, Katara announced that she believed Korra to be ready to commence her airbending training, as Tenzin would be able to teach her what she needed to know. At her son's asking, Katara helped Meelo off of his head, much to her grandson's displeasure. As she expressed her joy over seeing her family again, Jinora approached her, informing her that she had read everything about her past adventures and asked what happened to Zuko's mother, Ursa. Katara attempted to elaborate, only to be interrupted by an excited Ikki, who fired several random questions at the old waterbender.

Katara predicted her next grandchild would be a strong and healthy airbender. As the young airbenders ran off to play in the snow, Katara turned her attention to Tenzin and Pema, the latter being pregnant with their fourth child.

She predicted that the child would be an airbender, much to Pema's dismay, who explained that it would be nice to have a nonbending child like her. When asked if Tenzin and his siblings were as rambunctious as the young airbenders, Katara said that Tenzin had always been more serious than Kya and Bumi.

When it was revealed that Korra's airbending training with Tenzin was to be delayed and the Avatar decided to find her own path by traveling to Republic City on her own, Katara was the only one who understood that Korra had to go and find her own place in the world.

Confident in Korra, she gave her husband's reincarnation her blessing. Months later, after Korra's bending had been removed by Amon , Katara tried using her healing powers to restore Korra's abilities, but to no avail.

She later witnessed Korra, whose bending was restored by Aang, energybend Lin Beifong , restoring her earthbending abilities. Katara was hugged by her grandchildren upon their arrival for the Glacier Spirits Festival.

Six months later, Katara invited her oldest son, Bumi, to attend the Glacier Spirits Festival with her and the rest of their family. She, alongside her daughter, awaited the arrival of her sons at the dock, having a joyful reunion with her grandchildren. She later attended the royal banquet in honor of Chief Unalaq , sitting at a table with her family, where she looked on with concern as Tenzin was being picked on by his elder siblings.

The next day, Katara encouraged Tenzin to take his siblings along with him on his trip to all the air temples, reasoning that he should cherish the time he spends with his entire family.

She also felt that the three siblings should visit Aang's birthplace together. Tenzin agreed to let his siblings join him and gave his mother a farewell hug, promising to see her soon.

Katara attempted to heal an unconscious Jinora , whose soul was trapped in the Spirit World. During the Water Tribe Civil War , Katara did not interfere between the two combating parties, believing her fighting days to be over, [90] and instead helped tend to injured rebels along with several other healers in her healing hut.

She was sought out by her family, who brought a spiritless Jinora for her to examine. Alarmed over the amount of time Jinora had been in that state, Katara placed her granddaughter in a bath of water to heal. Assessing the situation with her bending, she stated she was unsure how much longer Jinora would be able to survive with her body and spirit separated, noting that Jinora was strong to have lasted as long as she had. When Jinora's spirit later returned to her body, Katara happily embraced her granddaughter and later accompanied her and her family to Korra's announcement that peace was restored between the Southern and Northern Water Tribes and that the South was officially independent.

Five weeks after the insurrection of the Red Lotus was put down, Katara was visited by a still injured Korra and set out to heal her. Katara commented that the mercury poisoning Korra had suffered had caused a lot of internal damage. Upon being asked if she could heal it, she remarked that all she could do was help guide the young Avatar's healing process, though the ultimate result of that was out of her hands. Reminiscing on the feeling of going through a traumatic experience, she told Korra that if she dedicated herself to getting better, she would recover stronger than ever.

Katara worked intensively with Korra to help the Avatar recuperate from her mercury poisoning. The two waterbenders set out on the hard process of recovery. Progress was slow, however, and after nearly six months, a frustrated Korra snapped at Katara over the elder's inability to heal her. Katara tried to console her, stating it was all right and urging her to let her anger and frustration flow like water. When Korra admitted that she was tired of the situation, Katara told her she was not the first Avatar who had to overcome great suffering.

She recalled how Aang felt about the destruction of his entire culture and revealed that he had sought meaning in his suffering, which eventually led to peace. She urged Korra to do the same and guided her to take her first steps again in a long time. Katara continued to help Korra over the next two years until she was physically fit again. Katara had a warm, compassionate, and caring personality and often acted as a motherly figure to the group, something that often irritated the rebellious Toph.

Her inner strength kept Aang and their friends together through their most difficult experiences, even in the absence of parental figures. While the team traveled through the Si Wong Desert, she was able to hold the group together in its most desperate moments. According to Sokka, she largely prevented their family from falling apart and took on many responsibilities to the point where she filled the void left by their mother, so much that he pictured her in place of their mother.

Even if she had to hide her identity, Katara never turned her back on people who needed her. Overall, Katara is often marked by a fierce determination to aid others and herself stated that she would never turn away from people who need her help, even if she had other priorities at the moment.

She was even willing to defend Fire Nation civilians, such as when she helped the village of Jang Hui, [1] and fought her former teacher Hama , [54] who was from the Southern Water Tribe to defend the Fire Nation village she was living in. This strong desire often frustrated others, particularly Sokka. Katara was marked by a fierce desire to learn waterbending, viewing it as a part of her and her culture that needed to be expressed. Her enthusiasm for waterbending caused her to constantly train herself in the art despite she originally did not have a teacher and learnt whatever little she could with great ambition, ignoring the criticism of Sokka.

Initially, Katara's waterbending abilities were limited because there was no one to teach her at the South Pole. However, after acquiring a waterbending scroll, and formal training at the North Pole, her determination and hard work allowed her to surpass Aang and completely master the element. She became Aang's waterbending instructor after their departure from the Northern Water Tribe, replacing Master Pakku, who had instructed them during their time there.

Her mastery of water made her a formidable asset to the group. After the Hundred Year War ended, Katara and Aang began a close romantic relationship that eventually led to marriage, and raising a family with three children: Bumi, a nonbender who gained the ability to airbend later in life, Kya, a waterbender, and Tenzin, an airbender.

Later in life, Katara became highly regarded as a master healer, said to be the best in the world. After Aang's passing, she became Avatar Korra's waterbending teacher and helped her to recover physically from her ordeal with the Red Lotus. Born into the diminished Southern Water Tribe to Hakoda and Kya, Katara faced the reality of her tribe's dwindling strength from an early age.

At the time of her birth, forty-five years of repeated Fire Nation invasions intended to capture and imprison the tribe's waterbenders had left them devoid of benders. The tribe's defenses would have crumbled under the might of the Fire Nation; however, because of their relative inaccessibility in the South Pole, and the perception that they were a non-threat, they were mostly left alone.

However, when Katara was eight, the Fire Nation again raided the village when charged by Fire Lord Azulon to find and dispose of the last remaining waterbender in the tribe. During the battle, the leader of the raid Yon Rha confronted Katara's mother, who was taking refuge in the family's igloo.

Seeking shelter with her mother, Katara ran back to her home and interrupted their exchange. Realizing the intentions of Yon Rha, who had demanded Kya tell him the identity of the waterbender, Kya insisted Katara leave, and gave herself up as the last waterbender, lying to protect her daughter.

Katara ran to fetch her father, Hakoda, but by the time they returned, Yon Rha had left and her mother had been killed. The death of their mother had a profound impact on both Katara and Sokka. With the absence of a mother figure in the family, Katara soon found herself filling the role left behind by Kya. Katara began to take on many of the domestic responsibilities expected of women of the Southern Water Tribe, despite her young age. Katara and Sokka were left in the care of their grandmother, Kanna.

Though Kanna loved the two and cared deeply for them, Katara was left feeling traumatized and alone. Living in a tribe consisting almost entirely of women, children, and elderly, Katara took care of not only her own family, but aided others as well.

She developed a protective and motherly personality which she would carry with her for the remainder of her life. Even to her own elder brother, Sokka, she was sometimes seen as a maternal figure. Much later, Katara overheard her brother admitting to being unable to picture his mother, whose image had been replaced by Katara's. Katara displayed deep affection for those she traveled with, as well as being fiercely protective whenever danger threatened their safety.

The inner strength she had developed in the absence of parental figures aided her in keeping Aang and their friends together through their most difficult experiences. As part of the Harmony Restoration Movement, Katara and her friends began moving Fire Nation colonials back to the Fire Nation, starting with the more recent colonial establishments. A year later, when Aang, Katara, and Sokka were assisting in the relocation of a Fire Nation colony led by Mayor Nishi, the team found out that Zuko had withdrawn his support for the movement, so they immediately traveled to Yu Dao, the colony where the Fire Lord was staying.

After landing, soldiers ordered Aang to leave. Once there, Katara and the rest of Team Avatar encountered a protest that included several members of the Freedom Fighters and learned that Zuko was preventing people from entering and exiting Yu Dao, so she and Aang flew over the colony's walls with his glider to meet the Fire Lord. They were, however, confronted by Fire Nation soldiers who prevented them from talking to Zuko, so they had to fight them. After Aang defeated several guards, Katara became enraged when she saw the guards were trying to set her boyfriend on fire and knocked them out.

Zuko suddenly grabbed Katara, admonishing her for attacking his "people". Aang, angry at Zuko's action, warned him to let her go, but after he insisted that she had first to agree to stop attacking his people, Aang separated Zuko from Katara with airbending, prompting him to retaliate, causing the airbender to block the attack and enter the Avatar State.

But Katara, telling him that he would not be able to control himself in an altered emotional state, managed to calm him down. The Fire Lord agreed to talk and gave the couple a tour of Yu Dao, pointing out how heavily integrated the lives of the citizens were in the colony. At this, Katara proposed a meeting with the Earth King concerning the matter, to which the Avatar and the Fire Lord both agreed.

After leaving Yu Dao, Smellerbee said that Aang had three days to make a compromise before the Freedom Fighters take action. After learning they were looking for a place to stay, the girls immediately offered their clubhouse. They spent the night and the following morning there as Aang entertained the girls, much to Katara's annoyance and apparent jealousy as she was left out of the party. She reminded Aang that they had to meet with the Earth King, finally getting him to leave the clubhouse.

After leaving, Aang thanked Katara for allowing him to spend some time with the girls, as he had felt like he was at home again, but she, feeling guilty because of her attitude, responded that she did not deserve it. Upon their return at Yu Dao, Aang attempted to evacuate the city, though they were met with severe resistance from both earth and firebenders. However, she came to the fan club's defense when Aang got angry at them for sporting Air Nomad attire, opting that it was probably a mistake.

When an angry Aang stormed off, she followed him onto the roof, and comforted him when he verbalized his conflicting opinions about his promise to Zuko, and the separation of the four nations. Offering him her opinion, she reminded him of the words Guru Pathik and Huu told him prior: separation is an illusion, so is the separation of the four nations, who are actually all the same.

Later, when Aang entered the Avatar State to fulfill his promise, Katara calmed him down, and explained that when she saw Kori's family, she saw their future, outing her doubts about what would happen to them as a couple if the four nations would remain separate. Sharing a kiss, she convinced him to find a quiet place to think about it all before jumping to action based on rushed conclusions. When the battle unfolded, Katara used her waterbending to confront King Kuei and eventually took him into the city to show him the lives he would change were he to persist in his war.

Upon arrival, they were delightfully surprised when they discovered Iroh there as well. Zuko explained that Iroh was there to act as interim Fire Lord while he would be gone, looking for Ursa, a journey on which he invited Team Avatar to accompany him.

The amicable atmosphere quickly changed, however, when Azula emerged from behind Zuko, and Katara promptly attacked the princess with ice spikes, which she easily avoided. Zuko explained the situation and after some words, Team Avatar accepted that Azula would come with them in search for Ursa.

The following day, as Aang was preparing Appa for the journey toward Hira'a, taking care of Azula's luggage, Katara voiced her still present concerns about the princess's presence on the trip, though she took confidence in the knowledge that if Azula did try something, there would be four of them to take her down.

When Azula subsequently zapped Sokka with her lightning, Katara was quick to trap the princess's hand in ice with her waterbending to prevent any further action. As they set off on their journey, Katara rode atop Appa's head, sitting next to Aang. Aang felt tremendous guilt, as he thought that he did turn his back on the world, but Katara comforted him by saying that he gives people hope. The storm continued to worsen, and suddenly the fisherman's wife appeared at the entrance of the cave, asking for Aang and Katara's help, as she was worried that her husband and Sokka got caught at sea in the storm.

Aang and Katara flew on Appa out to sea, and spotted Sokka and the fisherman on a sinking boat. They safely rescued Sokka and the old man, and returned them to the cave. Aang proceeded to tell Katara that he was ready to move on from the past and look toward a brighter future. The team took shelter in a derelict building near the ruins of Taku , where Katara tended to an illness Sokka had developed because of the storm. Katara subsequently caught Sokka's cold. When Aang was unable to find ginger root for tea to cure their sickness, he traveled to an herbalist institute where he was captured by the Yuyan Archers and taken to a prison under Admiral Zhao's command, leaving Katara worried about his whereabouts.

Aang escaped with the aid of the mysterious Blue Spirit, Zuko's alter ego, and returned to his friends. He gave them frozen wood frogs from the nearby valley swamp to suck on, a method advised by the herbalist.

The frogs cured them both, however, they quickly thawed out, to which Katara and Sokka were left disgusted at. Later, as the group camped out by a lake, Aang made a necklace for Katara out of Sokka's fishing line to replace the one she had lost. Katara thanked him, and upon donning the necklace, Aang became infatuated by the way she looked. Upon hearing loud noises, the group was drawn to a spot in the wooded area where an elderly man was being attacked by a vicious platypus bear.

Despite the dire circumstances, however, the man remained oddly calm. After Appa managed to fend off the bear, the man told them he came from a nearby village where a fortuneteller, Aunt Wu , lived.

The group decided to travel to the village to have their fortunes told. Katara was told by the fortuneteller that she would marry a powerful bender, to which she was very satisfied with. Upon having this first fortune read, Katara became obsessed with asking Aunt Wu to predict her fortune about every single detail of her life, to the point where she was locked out of the fortuneteller's building, due to annoying Wu so much.

Later, Aang and Sokka came up to Katara and explained that Aunt Wu's prediction about the volcano surrounding the village being inactive was wrong, and that they needed to save the village from the impending doom. After plans were arranged to dig a trench to channel the oncoming lava to the river and some impressive displays of airbending power, Aang managed to successfully quell the volcano's fury and save the village.

Sokka remarked that Aang was one powerful bender, which caused Katara to realize that Aang may have been the "powerful bender" Aunt Wu predicted she would marry. Katara with Bato. The group met up with an old friend from their Water Tribe village named Bato , who had been injured and left behind. They headed back to his current home in an abbey of nuns who made perfumes and cures.

Katara and Sokka spent so much time reminiscing that they unintentionally neglected Aang. Bato suddenly started talking about how Katara and Sokka might be able to visit their father, Hakoda, and that a message was arriving soon about Hakoda's whereabouts.

Aang ran off, feeling hurt that Katara and Sokka might leave him to go find their father. While Aang was contemplating their possible departure, a messenger arrived with a rendezvous map leading to Hakoda's location, and instead of giving it to them, Aang hid it.

After taking part in a Water Tribe ritual known as ice dodging , however, in which Aang was bestowed the Mark of the Trusted , he came clean about his actions and revealed that he had the map. An angered Sokka and a hurt Katara decided to leave him behind in order to find their father. After further contemplation, however, they came to the realization that they were needed by Aang's side on his journey and joined up with him once more.

Later, when the kids were flying on Appa, Aang asked what the plan was now. They told him they were going to get him to the North Pole because he was their family. Aang gave Katara back her necklace which he had retrieved from Zuko, to which she responded by going over and kissing Aang on the cheek, causing Aang to blush and twiddle with his thumbs.

Katara discovers her healing powers. When the group met a firebender named Jeong Jeong , Aang found this as the perfect moment to learn how to firebend.

Jeong Jeong started teaching Aang slowly, focusing exclusively on breathing exercises and stances, but the young Avatar desired to learn more advanced firebending techniques. Jeong Jeong assigned him the simple task of preventing a leaf from being completely burned and left to tend to other matters.

Aang, feeling restricted, took his exercise to the next step and created fire. He played around with it for a little while even though Katara insisted that he be careful.

Soon thereafter, he accidentally burned Katara's hands when he attempted to imitate a move a performer made at the festival earlier on. Katara cried in pain and ran away; Sokka became enraged as a result and tackled Aang. Jeong Jeong, having returned, followed Katara into the forest. Katara tried to cool her hands from the burn in the water, and she miraculously was able to heal herself. Jeong Jeong told Katara that she possessed vitakinetic healing powers, with water as the catalyst.

Jeong Jeong confessed of his desire to be a waterbender like herself, due to its ability to heal, while fire only destroyed.

She later forgave Aang for his actions. After hearing rumors about flying people from a traveling storyteller, the kids journeyed to the Northern Air Temple to see for themselves if the rumors were true.

Upon arrival, they found not airbenders, but an Earth Kingdom colony led by a mad inventor and his paraplegic son. He made gliders based on the Air Nomad staffs he found in the temple, and the members of the colony used them for "flight", leading to the rumor of the "flying people". The inventor had defiled the ancient landmarks with technological "improvements", similar in style to the Industrial Revolution.

Aang was at first disheartened by the many changes to the temple, though he developed a degree of respect for the mechanist's son, Teo. Teo let Katara try flying with one of the manufactured gliders, and Katara found it thrilling and exciting. Katara riding one of the mechanist's gliders. Later, Aang, Katara and Teo discovered that the once sacred air temple sanctuary had been transformed into a workshop for creating weapons for the Fire Nation.

The mechanist confessed that he was coerced into producing weapons for the Fire Nation with the threat that, should he not comply, the entire temple would be destroyed by the enemy. Not long after, War Minister Qin came to the temple, seeking the promised weapons.

When Aang refused and attacked the war minister, the latter vowed vengeance and left to assemble an army of Fire Nation soldiers. With Fire Nation forces quickly approaching the temple, the Earth Kingdom colonists and Team Avatar worked together to fend them off.

Aang flipped many Fire Nation tanks over, but to no avail, as the cockpits also flipped. Teo stated that the tanks had a water balancing system. Katara used this knowledge and her waterbending to fight them, but there were too many. Appa arrived and retrieved Aang and Katara out of the battlefield.

Out of explosives, the people lost hope. Making a timely appearance, Sokka and the mechanist suddenly appeared with their newest invention: a war balloon. The Fire Nation did not attack the balloon, as they saw the Fire Nation insignia on it.

Sokka dropped several slime bombs, but that did not stop the advancing army. Ultimately, Sokka, in a desperate maneuver, threw the balloon's hot air engine into a crack with explosive gas emanating from it. The resulting explosion crushed the invaders and resulted in victory for Team Avatar and the Earth Kingdom colony. Afterward, Aang stated his approval of the villagers having settled there. Unknowingly, the balloon consequently dropped into the Fire Nation campgrounds.

Qin and his soldiers found it, saying, "This defeat is the gateway to many victories", as firebenders inflated the balloon. As they progressed toward the Northern Water Tribe, Sokka began to complain that Appa was flying too slowly. Aang defensively replied that they should all climb on Sokka's back so he could fly them to the North Pole. Katara tried to soothe the situation remarking that they were all tired and cranky as a result of flying for two days straight.

Just as Sokka was voicing his doubts about finding the Northern Water Tribe, the group was attacked by waterbenders, who led them to their Water Tribe. Katara and Yagoda. Outside the great palace of the Northern Water Tribe, Sokka and Katara were celebrated as family from the Southern Tribe, and Aang was honored as a special guest.

Aang and Katara were delighted to see the waterbending master, Pakku , and his students performing elaborate and elegant waterbending moves for entertainment. After the waterbending performance was over, Aang was introduced to Master Pakku. Katara was looking forward to Aang and herself learning waterbending after she took a few days rest. The next day, as they approached the palace, Katara expressed her joy at being able to learn from a real master, saying she had waited for this day her whole life.

However, she was horrified to learn from Master Pakku that it was forbidden for women to learn waterbending. He advised her to go to the healing huts and learn from Yagoda to use her waterbending to heal.

Although Aang initially refused to learn from Master Pakku, outraged at the unfairness, Katara made him return by saying that he could not risk his training for her. Katara reluctantly went to the class, which was taught by an old woman and where all the other students were very young girls. After the healing class, Katara thanked Yagoda, who noticed her betrothal necklace and asked her to whom she was getting married.

Katara explained that she was not ready for marriage and that the necklace was her grandmother's, passed down to her mother, and finally to her. Yagoda recognized the carving and revealed to Katara that she was an old friend of Kanna's, who was actually born in the Northern Tribe and was engaged to a young waterbender, but left mysteriously without saying goodbye.

Sokka suggested that at night Aang teach Katara everything he had learned that day. Katara was excited at this idea, for it allowed her to learn waterbending as well as give Aang someone with whom to practice, so everyone would be happy. As Aang showed Katara a waterbending move, they looked up to the bridge above them to see Master Pakku, angry that Aang had disrespected him, his teachings, and his entire culture.

Aang hastily apologized, but Master Pakku refused to teach Aang anymore, saying he was no longer welcome as his student before leaving. Master Pakku agreed to continue training Aang as long as Katara apologized. She conceded, but after a few patronizing comments by him, Katara angrily refused to apologize and challenged him to a duel.

Katara fighting Master Pakku for her right to learn waterbending. Katara went outside to wait for Master Pakku, who simply strolled past her, further angering her with patronizing comments. Katara, her temper pushed to the breaking point, formed a water whip and slapped Master Pakku on the back of the head.

He turned around and agreed to the fight, telling her if she wanted to learn so badly, she should study closely. The fight began, and it was discovered that Katara was much more advanced in waterbending than previously known.

She demonstrated amazingly powerful techniques she never used before during the fight. The two were able to manipulate the water and snow around them amazingly, using basic and advanced waterbending techniques. Master Pakku grinned and smirked as he attacked, but when Katara launched discs of ice at him, he appeared to realize how skilled she was as a waterbender. After a few moments of violent waterbending, it seemed Katara had the upper-hand, as she toppled ice-obelisks over Master Pakku, who disappeared in a cloud of mist.

However, Master Pakku quickly emerged and performed a waterbending move that rendered Katara helpless, and she was defeated. Her grandmother's necklace, which fell off during the fight, was picked up by Master Pakku, and it was discovered that he made it for Kanna sixty years prior.

He decided to start teaching Katara to waterbend. Under the tutelage of Master Pakku, Katara's waterbending skills improved to the degree she could defeat Sangok and all the other pupils with ease. To both Pakku and Katara's annoyance, the same could not be said for Aang, who did not take it very seriously. Katara protecting Aang 's body from Zuko. The Northern Water Tribe prepared for an attack as Fire Nation ships approached and laid siege to the city.

Princess Yue , after relating the origins of the Water Tribe and its power, gave Aang an idea. If he could connect with the Spirit World and meet with the Moon and Ocean Spirits , perhaps they could help him defeat the Fire Nation. Yue took Katara and Aang to a hidden oasis , the most spiritual place in North Pole.

Aang entered a trance after staring at the two koi fish in a pool and entered the Spirit World, and Katara was left to protect him. When Zuko arrived, Katara dueled him, and with the power of the moon, was able to temporarily defeat Zuko by freezing him on a pillar of ice. However, when the sun rose and enhanced Zuko's powers, he was able to defeat Katara. Zuko and Katara had a rematch, but, due to the full moon being out this time, Katara easily defeated him in a matter of seconds by temporarily suspending him in a frozen pillar at a colossal height and subsequently throwing him to the ground.

Aang took the unconscious Zuko with him, despite some disagreement from Sokka and Katara. Katara watching Aang fuse with La. When Katara and the others returned to the oasis, Zhao had already captured the white koi fish. Immediately, the moon glowed red, creating a lunar eclipse, and color seeped from the world. Zhao, however, was forced to release the spirit when Iroh showed himself and threatened Zhao and his men.

This caused the moon to return and the waterbenders to resume fighting. In a rage, Zhao suddenly threw fire at the koi, killing it, and the moon vanished altogether from the sky.

Iroh leaped forward and easily defeated Zhao's firebending escort, but Zhao himself was able to sneak away during the commotion. Iroh and Katara attempted to revive the Moon Spirit, but it was too late. Aang suddenly entered the Avatar State and fused with the Ocean Spirit into a giant spirit creature.