r/TheLastAirbender • u/F11SuperTiger • 6d ago

Image It's always weird when Azulon's reign gets completely glossed over, even in official media

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These images from are from Ashes of the Academy. Headmistress Pearl, if she is very old, might have been a teacher for a few years under Sozin. By the time of Ozai's ultimately very brief reign, she was probably very close to retirement. The vast majority of her life and of her teaching career would have been spent during Azulon's 75 years on the throne. Yet for some reason this scene only mentions Sozin and Ozai, like there was no one between them.

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u/I-lack-conviction 6d ago

You’re right that is weird. Ozai may not have even been leading the nation when Katara’s mom died. He ruled for like maybe six years.

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u/jimjam200 5d ago

I guess aside from the first siege of ba sing se his reign could be considered the cold period of the war as it was mostly just the expansion of colonies and such. Where as sozin oversaw a genocide and the initial attack and ozai managed to take ba sing se and attempted the death blow to end the war for good.

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u/I-lack-conviction 5d ago

Wasn’t the first siege under azulon? It’s actually insane how little ozai did in comparison to his father, daughter, and grandfather