World Lore of Avatar: Seven Havens Characters
Set 225 years after The Legend of Korra, explore how the historical apocalypse and the isolated Seven Havens shape the lives of all Avatar: Seven Havens characters.
The Cataclysm
The Apocalypse That Ended the Four Nations Era
For over a millennium, the Avatar preserved harmony between humans and spirits, water, earth, fire, and air. However, approximately two centuries after the reign of Avatar Korra, an apocalyptic event known across surviving oral history as "The Cataclysm" decimated the globe.
According to fragmentary archives, the spiritual portals opened during Korra’s era experienced catastrophic harmonic destabilization. The earth fractured, coastlines sank, and massive tracts of habitable continents turned into irradiated, spirit-scorched badlands.
In the ashes of this collapse, civilization collapsed back into isolated pockets of survival, and the memory of the Avatar transformed from celebrated protector into a cursed figure held responsible for humanity’s downfall.
Canon Highlights
- Occurred roughly 200 years prior to the events of Seven Havens
- Severed the global connectivity established during the Republic City era
- Resulted in the formation of uninhabitable spirit badlands separating humanity