Post by Hazlenut Tree-breeze on Mar 29, 2008 16:22:42 GMT
Located in the remote Patola mountain range (Air Nomad Territory), the Southern, Jongmu Air Temple, supposedly only accessible via Flying Bison, was the boyhood home of the current Avatar, Aang, and his father-like mentor, Monk Gyatso. The Southern Air Temple was also home to Avatar Roku who needed a place to learn and master the art of Airbending. Southern Air Temple Sanctuary DoorIt was raided early in the war during Fire Lord Sozin's genocide on the Air Nomads. The sole known survivor of the massacre was the very person the Fire Nation sought to kill in its quest for supremacy: the twelve-year-old Airbender and Avatar, Aang, who had run away from the Southern Air Temple shortly before the war began and became trapped in suspended animation. He has since revived and begun a quest to restore balance and peace to the warring nations. The temple is large and peaceful, has an Air Ball arena, and is also where the "Air Scooter" was first invented by Aang. The temple itself primarily served as a training ground for Airbender students. Once inhabited by Flying Bison and Winged-Lemurs in the days of the monks, it is now barren and abandoned by humans and animals alike. As a result of being built for and by the monks, several of the temples' doors and mechanisms are operable only through means of airbending. A statue of Monk Gyatso stands at the entrance to the temple. Unlike the other two temples shown, the Southern Temple's spires are blue, instead of green.
