List of minor Avatar: The Last Airbender characters

The animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender and its live-action film adaptation, The Last Airbender, feature an extensive cast of characters created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. The series deals with a war that was started by the Fire Nation as an attempt to conquer the world, taking advantage of the absence of the Avatar, who alone holds the power to counter Fire Nation aggression. During the Avatar's absence, the balance between the Fire Nation and the three other countries, the Air Nomads, Earth Kingdom, and the Water Tribes, began to deteriorate and plunged the world into a century of war. The first phase of war ended with the elimination of the Air Nomads, near extinction of the Water Tribes, and near-total colonization of the Earth Kingdom, thus setting up the world that the characters of Avatar lived in.

Chief Hakoda
Chief Hakoda is the father of Katara and Sokka, the husband of Kya, son of Kanna, and the leader of the Southern Water Tribe. Hakoda is a talented ship captain, igloo builder, and weapon maker. Much of Sokka's ingenuity and craftiness he learned from his father. He went off to war to fight the Fire Nation, leaving his children to be raised by Kanna, his mother. Fact, from Nicks Avatar cards

King Bumi
King Bumi is the wild-eyed, eccentric, elderly king of Omashu. As a child, Bumi was a close friend of Aang, and is the only person who knew him before The War that is known to still be alive. He has become an old and eccentric man, prone to cackling, snorting laughter at unfunny jokes. Despite his age and his apparent frailty, Bumi is an Earthbending master and quite fit for his old age, himself claiming at one point to be "the most powerful Earthbender you'll ever see". Bumi's eccentricity arises out of the fact that he always keeps his mind "open to the possibilities". As a child, Bumi decided to use the Omashu mail delivery system as a chute ride, for which Aang dubbed him "a mad genius", a name that Bumi seems to appreciate. Although Bumi seems senile, he is in fact a brilliant and patient tactician, willing to wait until the opportune moment to strike to best effect. Bumi acts the same during a quiet, peaceful meal as he does when his city is under attack, and he rarely explains his actions, which tends to infuriate his underlings.

Jet
A charismatic teen who holds a deep grudge against the Fire Nation. He was the leader of the Freedom Fighters, who spent their days antagonizing Fire Nation soldiers. Later, he decided to start a new life in Ba Sing Se. Jet uses Twin Tiger-Head Hook Swords as his weapon. Jet was the teenage leader of a band of Earth Kingdom children called "The Freedom Fighters." The young vigilante held a deep-seated grudge against the Fire Nation for an attack headed by the Rough Rhinos that killed his parents when he was eight. He and his ragtag group spent their days antagonizing Fire Nation soldiers and emigrants on the outskirts of their occupied town, living in forest tree-houses. Jet is marked by his almost pathological hatred of the Fire Nation. To him, all citizens of the Fire Nation are guilty, regardless of whether they are involved with the war or not. In some ways he represents what could have happened to Katara and Sokka after the death of their mother; allowing their hatred to consume them.

Long Feng
The intelligent and cunning Grand Secretarian of Ba Sing Se, head of the Dai Li, and advisor to the Earth King. In reality, the Earth King is merely a figurehead of Ba Sing Se's government, so it is actually Long Feng who holds real power. As Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se and the head of the Dai Li, Long Feng is a very influential, charismatic, and power-hungry individual who has the tendency to pop up out of nowhere. He rose from humble origins as a son of a Merchant in the Middle Ring of Ba Sing Se, to become the most feared man in the city. By appearance, his position grants him a special relationship with the Earth King, but in reality the Earth King is but a figurehead of Ba Sing Se's government, and Long Feng truly holds sway over its privatizing affairs. He utilizes the Dai Li to silence anyone who would disrupt the common peace, secretly imprisoning them under Lake Laogai and using hypnotic tactics to subdue them. This effectively keeps the citizens of Ba Sing Se in blissful ignorance and maintains the illusion that there is no war. He claims to have preserved the last utopian society left on the planet by covering up all knowledge of the war, when in fact, the totalitarian traits of Ba Sing Se's government are marks of dystopia.

Combustion Man
The firebending assassin/hitman, known to Sokka and his friends as Combustion Man, was a seemingly silent Fire Nation assassin who served as a major antagonist in the first half of Book 3: Fire, being hired by Prince Zuko to track down and eliminate the Avatar. Utilizing a unique method of Firebending which allowed him to trigger huge explosions at will, he terrorized the Avatar and his friends, following them on their travels across the Fire Nation.

Freedom Fighters
The Freedom Fighters are a rag-tag group of children led by Jet who do what they can to fight the Fire Nation. Planning their attacks from a secret treetop hideout, these children are very skilled woodsmen who communicate with bird calls to avoid detection. Ever since the Fire Nation took over a nearby town, the Freedom Fighters have been cutting off Fire Nation supply lines and using all available means to sabotage their occupation. They are all wanted by the Fire Nation. Members of this group include Sneers, Longshot, Smellerbee, the Duke, and Pipsqueak. Their group structure and lifestyle are similar to those from the stories of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys or Robin Hood and his Merry Men; Pipsqueak in particular seems to be a nod to Little John, the largest and strongest of Robin Hood's merry men. The Freedom Fighters all appear in the episode "Jet," while only Jet, Smellerbee, and Longshot make a return in the "The Serpent's Pass" and subsequently appear in "The Drill", "City of Walls and Secrets", and "Lake Laogai." The Duke and Pipsqueak later appear in "The Awakening." The current status of Sneers is unknown.

Haru
Haru is a young Earthbender, whose Earth Kingdom village was occupied by the Fire Nation. Seizing the village's coal mines to fuel their ships, they extracted exorbitant taxes from the citizenry, and most cruelly, took all known Earthbenders to a prison shipyard, Haru's father Tyro among them. To ensure his safety, Haru's mother forbade him from earthbending (although he continued to Earthbend in secret).

Jee
Lieutenant Jee was one of the leading senior officers aboard Prince Zuko's ship. He had little patience for Zuko's non-stop orders, his apparent disregard for the well-being of the crew, and his seemingly selfish desire to find the Avatar at all costs. Tired of Zuko's disrespectful attitude towards the personnel and even Iroh, Jee challenged Zuko to a duel only to be cut short because of a coming storm. Jee's attitude does not change until Iroh reveals to the crew the circumstances behind why Zuko was after the Avatar; Zuko was banished for his compassion for the fire nation's soldiers, and even if finding the Avatar is a fool's errand, it brings Zuko hope for the future. After learning all of this, his views of the hot-headed Prince cease and he becomes more understanding and compassionate towards Zuko in him finding the Avatar. During the storm, he aids Zuko in saving the helmsman from certain death. He is also seen in another episode trying to plot the Avatar's course after the storm. Much later on, Admiral Zhao takes over Zuko's ship, and he and the other crew (including the cook), leave to help Zhao in his attack against the Northern Water Tribe. Jee appears in "The Storm," "The Blue Spirit," "The Waterbending Scroll," and amongst the ships band in the beginning of "The Waterbending Master."

Jeong Jeong
The Enlightened and fugitive Firebending master Jeong Jeong was once a great Admiral in the Fire Nation, but became an infamous deserter, the first to abandon the military and live. He and his followers now camp in the Earth Kingdom forests dodging Fire Nation soldiers and bounty hunters. The sixty-year-old is exceedingly perceptive, able to discern Aang's bending skill simply by how he walks into his camp. Jeong Jeong later told Katara that he envies her Waterbending skills for their capacity to heal. He sees his abilities as a curse, due to fire's purely destructive nature and the risk of its bearers turning brutal and merciless. This case holds true with a former student, Admiral Zhao. He stayed under Jeong Jeong's tutelage only as long as it took to learn destructive maneuvers, and had no interest in learning self-control. Both his former teacher and the newly wiser Aang exploited his flaws in order to escape capture. Jeong Jeong and followers uprooted their camp, and escaped into the trees. Jeong Jeong appears in "The Deserter." Based on the wanted posters seen in "The Deserter" and "The Desert," Jeong Jeong's. Pronounced as chēng in Mandarin, means "tinkling of gems."

June
June is a bounty hunter who travels around the Earth Kingdom. Prince Zuko and his Uncle Iroh employed the mercenary and sarcastic beauty to track down Aang, the Avatar, with the help of her mount, a giant beast called Shirshu. A starry-nosed anteater that can smell like a scent hound and has a tongue coated in paralyzing neurotoxins, this creature was both a help and hindrance in their mission. While they succeeded in finding Aang, it was thrown off by quantities of perfume that Katara had bended towards the beast. As the Shirshu lashed out in confusion, June and Zuko were temporarily paralyzed. Having developed an unrequited crush on June, Iroh was content to feign paralysis, simply to get close to her. June is also extremely strong since she is seen easily defeating a large man in arm wrestling as well as single-handedly picking up the stowaway on the ship. June appears in "Bato of the Water Tribe." The creators of Avatar have (half-jokingly) noted her popularity among fans, though it is unsure if she will make subsequent appearances.

Gran Gran Kanna
Gran Gran, Katara and Sokka's grandmother, at 80 years old is the eldest woman in the Southern Water Tribe. She once told Katara hopeful tales of Avatar lore, but is world-weary, jaded and pessimistic in the face of her tribe's decimation at the hands of the Fire Nation. Upon her grandchildren's discovery of Aang, the Avatar destined to master all four elements and bring peace to the world, hope rekindles within her. She bids her grandchildren farewell and blesses their decision to join the Avatar on his journey. Gran Gran first appears in "The Boy in the Iceberg." Given that Kanna has seen the harshness of an avatar-less world, it is likely her name comes from the Japanese word 'kanna' ( (神無) for 'godless world.'

The Mechanist
The Mechanist is a brilliant, eccentric Earth Kingdom inventor and engineer. After a flood destroyed his village (killing the Mechanist's wife and leaving his son Teo paraplegic), the Mechanist led his people into the surrounding mountains in search of a new home. They came across the Air Nomads' long abandoned Northern Air Temple, and promptly moved in. Inspired by the Airbenders, the Mechanist mass-produced modified versions of the Airbenders' gliders, creating a whole new method of transportation for his people. He devised an ingenious hot air-based power source for the whole temple, completely refurbishing and remodeling it. Among other ingenious inventions of his, the Mechanist also created time candles (filled with an exploding powder to signify the time of day) and a cut-safe knife sharpener. This "only took [him] three tries to get it right!", explaining the lack of three fingers on his left hand.

Meng
Meng is a young Earth Kingdom girl, assistant to the fortuneteller Aunt Wu. She has a crush on Aang and has admitted to stalking him. Consequently, she is jealous of Aang's affections towards Katara, as well as Katara's beauty, bending abilities, and manageable hair. In spite of her realization that Aang does not return her feelings, she helped him "borrow" a cloud reading book from Aunt Wu, as part of his effort to save her village from a volcanic eruption.

Bato
Bato is a member of the Southern Water Tribe and a close friend of Katara and Sokka's father, Hakoda. He is something of a paternal figure to Katara and Sokka in their father's stead and obviously cares about their well-being.

The Pirates
The Pirates prefer to be called "high risk traders" and will do anything to get money and treasure. Aang and his friends first encounter them in The Waterbending Scroll. The pirates assume correctly that they are travelling around the world; but also assume incorrectly that the kids have money to be swindled out of.

Fire Sage Shyu
At age sixty, Shyu is the youngest of the Five Fire Sages that guard the Fire Temple on a mysterious crescent shaped Island. Shyu helps Aang speak with Avatar Roku in "Winter Solstice, Part 2." When a beacon lit in the sky (seen in "The Southern Air Temple") and the eyes of the statue of Avatar Roku began to glow several weeks before Aang's arrival on Roku's temple, the Fire Sages all knew the Avatar had returned. Unlike his colleagues, Shyu chooses to help the Avatar, knowing that the other sages obey the will of Fire Lord Ozai.

Fire Lord Sozin
Fire Lord Sozin is the father of Fire Lord Azulon, the grandfather of Fire Lord Ozai and Iroh, and great grandfather to Zuko, Azula, and Lu Ten. Ascending the Fire Nation throne at a young age, Sozin had a thirst for power and desired to subjugate the other nations to the Fire Lord's rule. In accordance to his sage Fire Lord predecessors who sought sole dominion over the Nation, Sozin sought sole dominion over the planet. He was, however, prevented from his goals by the aging Avatar Roku, a Fire Nation native. After Roku's death, Sozin secretly began to stockpile weapons, train an army of soldiers and Firebenders, and created a massive armada of ironclad battleships while his fellow nations waited in ignorant bliss for the maturity and realization of the next Avatar. Finally, utilizing the firebending-enhancing energy of a passing comet, now named Sozin's Comet in his honor, he launched a deadly first strike on the other three nations.He was the Fire Lord for over seventy years. Now deceased and never being able to see his dream come into fruition, Sozin's goal is continued by his descendants.

Teo
Teo is a thirteen-year-old Earth Kingdom boy who lives in the Northern Air Temple with his father, the Mechanist. As an infant, Teo was badly injured and his mother killed during a flood. Teo lost the use of his legs. His father, in an effort to give Teo a new, happy life, led the survivors of the flood to settle at the abandoned Northern Air Temple. He even created a special glider made to accommodate Teo's wheelchair, which Teo is quite skilled at flying.

Tyro
Tyro is an Earthbender and both the father and teacher of Haru. Several years ago, Tyro led a courageous but unsuccessful rebellion against Fire Nation troops invading their mining village. Though he and the other Earthbenders fought bravely, they were unfortunately outnumbered ten to one. After the attack, he and many other Earthbenders were arrested and imprisoned within a metal rig situated in the middle of the ocean. Being the leader and source of inspiration of his people, it comes as no surprise that the prisoners eventually lost all hope of escape following Tyro's own despondant conclusion of his fate.

Monk Gyatso
Monk Gyatso was a member of the Council of Elders at the Southern Air Temple at least a 100 years ago. He was Aang's guardian and closest friend at the temple. He was a powerful Airbending master. According to Aang, Gyatso was the greatest Airbender alive at the time. Gyatso was noted for his kindness and sense of humor. Though Aang learned Airbending under him as part of his Avatar training, Gyatso always allowed time for fun and games. Gyatso also had a strong friendship with the previous Avatar, Roku.

Aunt Wu
Aunt Wu is a fortuneteller who resides in an Earth Kingdom village near the active volcano Mt. Makapu. Well-regarded for her free and accurate readings, every prediction she makes is taken as gospel by the village at large. Her methods of divination run from palmistry to oracle bones and cloud reading.

Fire Lord Azulon
Azulon was the previous Fire Lord who has so far only appeared in the flashbacks Zuko had in "Zuko Alone." He was the husband to Fire Lady Ilah. He was the father of Fire Lord Ozai and Iroh, and thus grandfather to Prince Zuko, Princess Azula, and Prince Lu Ten. He was the son of Fire Lord Sozin, instigator of the war. Like Iroh, Azulon was apparently a general in the war years before becoming the Fire Lord and once searched for the Avatar as Zuko does now. His granddaughter Azula is named after him.

The Boulder
A combatant in the Earth Rumble competition, "The Boulder" is a powerful Earthbender who is a parody of professional wrestlers in general and, more specifically, The Rock as well as being voiced by veteran wrestler Mick Foley. Though his "pro wrestling" stage accent may seem unintelligent, he speaks with a degree of consideration and eloquence that suggests a greater intellect beneath his bombast wrestler facade. He appears to be a decent human being at a base level, but is dedicated to winning and competing in the Earth Rumble tournament. He shows this through his initial reservations about attacking Toph, a twelve year old blind girl, when she confronts him during the final round of Earth Rumble VI.

Bosco
Bosco, the Earth King's pet bear, is first seen briefly in "City of Walls and Secrets", when a party is being held for him. After that, he isn't seen until "The Earth King", once again with a small appearance. After the Earth King is imprisoned in "The Crossroads of Destiny", Bosco is watched over by Mai and Ty Lee. Sokka and Toph free the Earth King and rescue Bosco. Toph Earthbends Ty Lee's limbs into the ground, and Mai simply isn't interested in fighting and tells them to "just take the bear." He later escapes Ba Sing Se with his owner, along with Aang and his friends. Bosco is the Italian word for 'forest.' It is also a chocolate syrup brand whose icon is a bear.

Dai Li
Selectively picked at a young age, the members of the Dai Li are elite officers of Ba Sing Se under the control of Long Feng. Their job is to ensure that no one disrupts the order of the city, such as by speaking of "undesirable" topics like the war with the Fire Nation. They employ skilled Earthbenders as a secret police group, who wear gloves made apparently out of earthen materials in order to dexterously Earthbend on the go. The Dai Li also are adept at using Earthbending to cling to sheer rock surfaces, such as walls or ceilings. They conceal chained metal cuffs within their sleeves, which they use to snare and hold prisoners, particularly other Earthbenders so as to inhibit their bending.

The Earth King
The fifty-second ruler of Ba Sing Se, and indeed the entire Earth Kingdom, the Earth King makes a cameo appearance in the episode "City of Walls and Secrets" during a party for his pet bear, Bosco, for whom he seems especially fond. He makes his first full appearance in "The Earth King", when Aang and his friends come before him accusing the Dai Li of treason. Having never left his palace and being told false information by Long Feng, the king was previously unaware of the war against the Fire Nation. However, evidence provided by Aang and his group persuaded him, and he agreed to mount an invasion of the Fire Nation. Unbeknownst to him, the Dai Li remained loyal to Long Feng.

The Rough Rhinos
The Rough Rhinos are a group of Fire Nation soldiers who are currently pillaging and raiding Earth Kingdom villages like common bandits. They are strong however, as each of the five members rides a ferocious three horned lizard and is a master of a different weapon. The name "Rough Rhinos" itself may be a reference to the Rough Riders, a nickname given to the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War.

Sandbenders
Out in the Earth kingdom's Si Wong Desert, there inhabits a small group of nomads with a certain proficiency with the discipline of earthbending in regards to manipulating sand, inherently earning them the nickname of Sandbenders. Little is known except that they exhibit a tribalist system of organization and make use of catamaran-like vehicles which they propel with small dust devils of sand to move about the desert. Since economic opportunities are limited in the desert, Sandbenders get by however they can. They have been known to scavenge for dead animals, or even steal from passing travelers at the nearby cantina. They resemble Bedouins in many ways such as clothing, lifestyle and tribe-system.

Tho, Due, and Huu
Three members of the Foggy Swamp Tribe. While Momo and Appa are separated from Aang, Katara and Sokka, they are being hunted by Tho, who is a little short and chubby, and Due, who is very tall and skinny. The kids, in the meantime, are being chased after by a Waterbender named Huu (pronounced "Hugh"), a fat man of average height, who can bend the water in plants and use them for a swamp monster disguise. Huu, like Aang, heard a voice from the Swamp and became "enlightened" as he realized that the swamp's illusions reflect on life, death, the connection between the earth and all its organisms as a whole and that time is irrelevant. Using this new-found knowledge, Aang finds Appa and Momo and stop Tho and Due, who are more than happy to find fellow Waterbenders outside of the Swamp in Aang and Katara.

Princess Ursa
Princess Ursa is the wife of Ozai and mother of Prince Zuko and Princess Azula. She has only appeared in flashbacks in the episode "Zuko Alone" and a feverish dream of Zuko in "The Earth King", although not much is known about her. It is shown that she is very protective of her son Zuko and may be one of the only members of the Fire Nation royal family (along with Uncle Iroh) who loves him. Shortly after the death of Iroh's son, Lu Ten, her husband Ozai asked his father, the Fire Lord Azulon, to pass Iroh's birthright to the throne to him. Ozai considered Iroh an unworthy quitter who let the death of his son get in his way of conquering Ba Sing Se. This dishonorable request only infuriated Azulon, who declared that Ozai would be fittingly punished for venturing to betray his own brother in his time of sadness. It is unknown what exactly this punishment was or if it was even carried out, though Azula told Zuko that it was to have him killed so that Ozai would know how it felt to lose his own first-born son. By the next morning, Ursa had disappeared, Azulon was proclaimed dead, and Ozai was announced as his willed successor. It is unknown what part Ursa had in these scandalous events, but it is almost certain that she played a major role in protecting Zuko. In Ursa's final appearance in the flashbacks, she wakes Zuko before her departure to remind him of her love and to tell him to always remember who he was, no matter how things seemed to change.

Wan Shi Tong
Wan Shi Tong is the spirit of knowledge, an ancient and powerful being who knows more than any human walking the earth. Though his normal physical form is that of an immense black-and-white barn owl, an animal commonly associated with wisdom in Western thought, Wan Shi Tong is able to lengthen his body and transform into a feral serpent-like creature when angered. Thousands of years ago, he built the great spirit library in the pursuit of preserving all knowledge of the world. Despite his vain persona, in hopes of sharing the knowledge, Wan Shi Tong brought the structure over to the mortal plane, placing it within the Si Wong Desert.

Master Pakku
Master Pakku is the Waterbending master and instructor of the North Pole's Northern Water Tribe Class. He is possibly the most powerful non-Avatar waterbender in the world. Dryly sarcastic, and very serious about his art, he is a harsh but effective teacher. Likewise stubbornly set in the customs of his culture, he only taught Waterbending to male tribe members; however, his ways have changed recently after meeting Katara, the granddaughter of his runaway fiancee.

Xin Fu
The promoter as well as the host of the underground Earthbending tournament, Earth Rumble VI, Xin Fu seems on the outside a nice enough guy, but when prompted with the possibility that he has been cheated, his more underhanded side becomes clear. He kidnapped Aang and Toph when the Boulder suggested that Toph purposely lost the match to Aang and then split the money with him afterward. Though Xin Fu is seemingly a powerful Earthbender since he lasts longest against Toph, he is still defeated. He is then recruited by Toph's father to retrieve Toph who Aang "kidnapped" by "any means necessary", and is now pursuing Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph alongside Master Yu. He has also shown that if he catches Aang, he fully intends to sell him to the Fire Nation for a large monetary reward. He is shown in The Blind Bandit to be a proficient and powerful Earthbender as he was once an active competitor of the Rumble.

Ying and Tahn
Ying and Tahn, first appearing in Book 2, Chapter 7, "Zuko Alone", are a married couple that Zuko contemplates stealing food from. However, when he sees that Ying is pregnant, he decides against it. The couple re-appears in Book 2, Chapter 12, "The Serpent's Pass," where they are trying to gain entrance into Ba Sing Se, only to discover that their passport has been stolen. The gang helped them and Tahn's sister cross the deadly Serpent's Pass in the chapter of the same name. After they finished crossing, Ying went into labor and Katara helped deliver her baby. At the time, Aang had been very morose over Appa's disappearance, but he told Ying that seeing the newborn baby gave him hope; as a result Ying chose the name Hope for her child. Later, after parting with the gang, the family make a cameo at the end of "The Drill" inside the monorail leading to Ba Sing Se where Zuko and Iroh ended up taking a seat next to them, unaware of any past encounter.

Master Yu
A Master Earthbender who teaches the local children earthbending and provides private lessons to Toph, but only teaches her the basics (simple breathing exercises and stances), at the request of her father. Even though Master Yu is treated with a great deal of respect, he doesn't seem to be the powerful Earthbender that everyone treats him as. Although, he may simply be holding his real skills and knowledge back from his students so that he doesn't have to strain himself teaching them as he is shown keeping up with Xin Fu in "The Desert,".

Professor Zei
He is the head of the Anthropology Department at Ba Sing Se University. Professor Zei is a well-traveled, highly educated student of exotic cultures. His thirst for knowledge brings him to strange, remote, and often dangerous places. A map of his travels shows he's been everywhere in the world, except the Fire Nation. However, before meeting Aang and his friends, the professor was unable to fulfill his life work: finding the secret library built by the spirit Wan Shi Tong and his knowledge seekers. He does find the library with the help of Aang and his friends. When Wan Shi Tong discovers their plans against the Fire Nation they had drawn up using his information, he sinks his library so that his knowledge could never be misused again. As he and the others try to escape, Zei tries desperately to grab as many books as he can to take; eventually, though, he simply declares that he would rather stay "for eternity" than lose his life's work, and the others are forced to leave without him.

Fang
Fang was Avatar Roku's friendly dragon and loyal steed. Fang was at Roku's side from his birth until his death. He was Roku's companion, much like Appa and Aang.

Kya
Kya is Katara and Sokka's mother and is the wife of Hakoda. She was born and raised in the Southern Water Tribe. Kya is frequently mentioned throughout the show. Her death, at the hands of a Fire Nation raid on the Southern Water Tribe, had a profound impact upon her children.

Past Avatars

 * Avatar Roku (see Avatar Roku in Major recurring characters above)
 * Avatar Kyoshi was a previous incarnation of the Avatar, born into the Earth Kingdom. She was the Avatar immediately preceding Avatar Roku, 412 years before the start of the series. Kyoshi was a gigantic woman, possessing the largest feet of any Avatar, and lived to be 230 years old, also giving her the title of oldest Avatar. Her traditional weapons were golden metal fans which, in addition to her manner of dress and style of fighting, were adopted by the young warrior women of Kyoshi Island, her homeland.
 * Avatar Kuruk was a previous incarnation of the Avatar. He was the last Avatar from the Water Tribe before the birth of Aang. He was succeeded by Kyoshi, and died 400 years before the events of the series. Kuruk was a gifted, cocky Avatar who professed to having a "Go with the flow" attitude to his position. This attitude had major consequences for Kuruk, who lost his wife to the spirit Koh because of it.
 * Avatar Yangchen was the Avatar incarnate born out of the Air Nomads before Aang. She first appears in "The Avatar State". However, only a glimpse of her performing a powerful Airbending move is revealed. She is properly introduced in the online game, Escape from the Spirit World.
 * The Unnamed Fire Avatar was an Avatar who hailed from the Fire Nation centuries before the war. He appeared in "The Avatar State" when Avatar Roku was telling Aang more about the Avatar State. He was seen briefly, making volcanoes erupt by using his Firebending, and possibly his Earthbending, enhanced by the Avatar State.

Master Piandao
Master Piandao is the greatest sword master and sword maker in the history of the Fire Nation. He decides to take Sokka under his wing. He is set about to do tasks such as landscape painting and calligraphy, as well as practicing against one of the master's underlings. Piandao believes him to be worthy enough to choose a steel to make his sword. Sokka makes a sword out of a meteorite. When the group leaves, they are given a bag with a Pai Sho piece, the White Lotus tile. As the doors to the master's home close, they notice that the symbol of the White Lotus can be seen surrounding that of the Fire Nation. During the Series Finale, when the group goes to find Iroh, they run into Piandao. They find him near the destroyed outer wall of Ba Sing Se, along with Master Pakku, Jeong Jeong, and King Bumi. It turns out that they are all members of the Order of the White Lotus, and were summoned there by a Grand Lotus, Iroh

Sozin's dragon
Sozin's dragon is a blue dragon that Fire Lord Sozin used as a mount. It is presumed that Sozin's relationship with the dragon was much like Roku's relationship with Fang, though it is also possible he enslaved it, it was only a pet, or it was only a beast-of-burden.

Nyla
Nyla was a male Shirshu. He served as the mount and constant companion of the bounty hunter June.

Hei Bai
Hei Bai is a forest spirit that normally takes the form of a docile panda bear, but can turn into a large multi-armed monster when angered.

Hawky
Hawky is Sokka's pet Messenger Hawk. In "The Runaway", Sokka bought Hawky with the money Toph had won by cheating at a dice-like game and a test-your-strength game.