Avatar fans received good news this week with the announcement that Avatar: Seven Havens will return in just a few months. The second season of the show will officially be titled Book 2: Discovery, and is set to premiere on May 21, 2027. Better still, Book 3 will also be released sometime next year.
While that was the splashiest news executive producers Sheaj Sethi and Ethan Spaulding shared in a Reddit AMA, they also teased some details about what to expect from the show's future. Book 1 of Seven Havens revealed that Avatar Korra caused an event called the Cataclysm and plunged the world into chaos. Flashbacks of an older Korra hint that there is more to this story.
Future seasons will delve more into Korra's life after The Legend of Korra, bringing back more familiar faces and even their kids. While Sethi noted that the massive time jump between The Legend of Korra and Seven Havens meant they haven't focused on descendants of characters from the old show just yet, fans "will hear about a few of them in flashbacks." Sethi didn't say who those characters would be, but it would be fascinating to see further descendants of Aang's son Tenzin and explore how Air Nomad culture changed. Dare we hope that Seven Havens reveals Korra and Asami started a family?
Viewers noticed that none of the earthbenders in Seven Havens are ever seen metalbending. At one point, a bender lifts a slab of rock to transport a piece of metal on top of it. This led some to theorize that the skill had been lost after the Cataclysm.
Spaulding explained that the skill does exist in the world of Seven Havens, but it's even rarer than it was in The Legend of Korra. Spaulding added that lavabending also still exists. Seven Havens Book 1 is confined to Ellora, so it's possible that other Havens have access to rare bending techniques, and we just haven't seen them yet.
This also makes me wonder if bloodbending has survived into the time of Nisha and Pavi. The twins would be in trouble if someone with the taboo talent ever shows up. Fans were pleased to see Jae depicted as an openly queer character in Seven Havens, but by Book 1's end, things aren't going too great for his love life.
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