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The first signs of her true nature appeared through her meals, simple recipes that always yielded satiated stomachs and rejuvenated souls.

In fact, one myth among the many under Kanna's name, speak of the goddess sharing a meal with an ill and weary fisherman. He had warned her to stay away, worried he would pass the sickness on to her. But she did not heed his words. Instead, she sat next to his cot, and fed him with all the love a daughter would have for her father.

The next morning, he disappeared.

Unbeknownst to everyone but Kanna, the fisherman had dashed off to sea, using his restored vitality to set sail into the frigid waters once more. When he came back with his catch of the day, people were awestruck. Such was the miracle of Kanna that no one had thought possible.

Since then, mealmaking became an art form, and the goddess did indeed take on apprentices to carry on her techniques. Under her watchful gaze, they threw together exquisite feasts. However, they could never quite fully recreate the effects their instructor's cooking had on others.

"Eat from Kanna's hands," one student affirmed reverentially, "and you will never ask for seconds."

Next, came her garments, an ensemble of animal furs and hide that were skillfully tailored to last generations. These were the true treasures of the Northern Lands, for tribesmen far and wide could recognize within them a remarkable warmth and durability no other coat could provide.

But they soon became a source of great envy for hunters.

Many laid their bounties before Kanna, willing to go any lengths to wear a garment made by the goddess's hand. She had relented the first few times, for it was customary to bring materials to a craftsmaker. But as time passed, this practice of "bounty" began to encourage unnecessary slaughter and in-fighting, harming the order of the natural world. She soon closed her doors to the undeserving.

The people of the Southern Lands theorize this event foretold the beginning of the Rift.

Short break from the adult designs bc Zuko is complicated lol SOKKA! There may have been a hunting god before Sokka, but they've long been forgotten. When wars began to break out across the mortal world, food scarcity became an issue again. People began to pray for bountiful/successful hunts, and with that, a god had to emerge to fill that void. Sokka spent a long time living as a wolf, seamlessly taking his place amongst wolf packs. When gods are young, they spend their first few years almost as a mirage, half-conscious as they appear in crowds, unnoticed by the mortals surrounding them. When he finally gained full-consciousness, he left the wolf pack and explored the woods until he found himself wandering around in the snow. That's where Hakoda and Kya found him. They weren't certain, at first, if he was a god. It wasn't until a year into living with them, when the wolf puppy they took in was still a puppy, that they knew.

It took a few years after that for Sokka to take on a humanoid form to imitate his parents. Having spent a significant amount of time in the wilderness before meeting Hakoda and Kya, Sokka is much more comfortable shifting forms than most other gods.

He becomes a wisdom god in his teens, after running off and spending a significant amount of time exploring cities and towns. He even finds Wan Shi Tong's library, and loses track of time, spending several years scouring the shelves.

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So, yes, godlings appear as a mirage to all mortals, not just humans. They appear for a bit, and the mortals' brains rationalize their appearance (large group of people/animals? all of the adults tell themselves "huh, must be someone else's kid? chill ok"). Then, when they disappear, the mortals rationalize the disappearance ("huh, kid is gone? maybe i just didn't know their parents")

They still have memories of the godling if they noticed them, and may even realize that the godling wasn't a mortal.

In Sokka's case with the wolf pack (the last one, anyway. He kinda blipped in and out of multiple different packs across the world during his "half-formed" stage), the wolves remember him. He actually goes back to visit them sometimes-- but he's a god, and he ages slower... so he's still a puppy every time he visits, up until he's outlived all of the original pack members he knew.

Short break from the adult designs bc Zuko is complicated lol SOKKA! There may have been a hunting god before Sokka, but they've long been forgotten. When wars began to break out across the mortal world, food scarcity became an issue again. People began to pray for bountiful/successful hunts, and with that, a god had to emerge to fill that void. Sokka spent a long time living as a wolf, seamlessly taking his place amongst wolf packs. When gods are young, they spend their first few years almost as a mirage, half-conscious as they appear in crowds, unnoticed by the mortals surrounding them. When he finally gained full-consciousness, he left the wolf pack and explored the woods until he found himself wandering around in the snow. That's where Hakoda and Kya found him. They weren't certain, at first, if he was a god. It wasn't until a year into living with them, when the wolf puppy they took in was still a puppy, that they knew.

It took a few years after that for Sokka to take on a humanoid form to imitate his parents. Having spent a significant amount of time in the wilderness before meeting Hakoda and Kya, Sokka is much more comfortable shifting forms than most other gods.

He becomes a wisdom god in his teens, after running off and spending a significant amount of time exploring cities and towns. He even finds Wan Shi Tong's library, and loses track of time, spending several years scouring the shelves.

This one's really fun

Toph is a very interesting one.

She's the Goddess of Victory and the Truth, amongst other things. She's one of the most-revered gods out there, due to how powerful a domain she holds. Athletes, soldiers, and leaders alike all pray to her very often.

Her blindness is not at all seen as an issue by mortals-- actually, due to her blindness, mortals tend to be much kinder to disabled folk.

It's seen as sacrilegious to forbid someone from participating in sports, contest, or even war on the basis of their perceived abilities. It's seen almost as if you're saying that Toph wouldn't be able to do that.

She's also the patron of innovation. She's the first form of Metalbending, and inventors/tinkerers will often pray to both her and Sokka (god of wisdom) when they go to create something new.

The Blind Bandit is an enigma.

No one really knows what she is-- she might be the goddess of trickery? And lies? but she's the only goddess to have no temples, to never ask for offerings or prayers, and she doesn't really... act like a goddess.

Really, she's more of a cryptid than a goddess- she definitely isn't human, considering she's been hanging around for like 300 years... but yeah no one really knows what she's up to.

Yes the wolf she's riding on is Sokka- he isn't too happy about it but he has a soft spot for Toph.

Aang and The Blind Bandit meet each other pretty often on the road-- he's normally the epitome of "good deeds" but she's a really bad influence on him (some think that he just can't say no to someone that shares his sense of style)

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Aang >:)

Info! Had a LOT of fun combining Air Nomad outfit elements with a more typical "travel" outfit. Super warm colour palettes of course! Aang is the god of balance, travelers, and hospitality. He's a bit of a free spirit and a lot of the more serious gods find him a bit annoying (Sokka.) People often pray to Aang when they have to go on long journeys, or invoke his name when they need to stop to rest. It's a well-known fact that the god of travelers has a habit of wandering around incognito-- he just does it because he likes interacting with people without being recognized. In doing so, however, he accidentally started to enforce his hospitality domain, as mortals became terrified of accidentally offending him if he were to show up at their door. He loves to follow Sokka around on hunts (he gets to explore dangerous areas)-- Sokka hates when Aang follows him because he almost always ends up losing his catch. Katara and Aang's Justice and Balance domains mean that they often are called upon together by mortals. Katara, to enact a fitting punishment upon perpetrators. And Aang, to provide reparations to victims. It's found to be very fitting that they ended up becoming a couple.

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I know I've literally got another au in the works already but i don't care man I love mythology and now they're gods >:)))))

Some info!

Katara and Sokka's face markings are based on the Painted Lady and Warrior makeup (respectively)-- on top of giving Sokka some winged eyeliner to resemble a wolf's markings (as the master of wolves), and a semi-circle on Katara's forehead as a symbol of equality (as the goddess of justice).

Gods don't technically "die" in this AU-- it doesn't happen often, but when it does, they usually become one with their domain. When Gyatso died, as the god of the wind, he turned into the wind and could only communicate through wind chimes (small signs/yes/no-- he can't communicate complex thoughts).

When Kya died, she turned into the starry sky. Hakoda, grieving his wife, would often study her form in the sky and learned to use the patterns of her stars to navigate, which made him become god of navigators.

When Kya died, people started praying to Sokka and Katara for matters of family and home-- it's not actually their domain, but they gratefully accept the duties that come with taking over for their mother.

Katara's necklace has sharp points in this to relate to her mother's star domain.

Katara's cloak is a sealskin (as the matron of sealife)

Yes, Sokka's leg is still hurt in this (still trying to figure out the story behind that, but I love when characters get permanent injuries in media and I'm KEEPING IT) he has a cane-- doesn't always need to use it but he has it!

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drawing process (well part of it) under the cut because i needed three runs to get used to it in my last ask ;;;

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

The condors are back. The whales are saved. The sea turtles are no longer endangered. The cranes are back. The bees are recovering. The air in LA and Tokyo and London is clean again. The aquifers in the LA Basin are refilling.

Children are kinder than previous generations. Parents are stopping the abuse cycle. Being trans and queer is more acceptable than ever on a ground level.

It's hard to see if you're young, if you don't know how to step back from social media and the news. But remember--bad news sells, and the algorithm knows despair keeps you scrolling. It's a skewed lens.

We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.

People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.

Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.

Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.

We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.

In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide. In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.

When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.

When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.

When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!

We fixed it.

Since 1990 extreme poverty has decreased worldwide by over HALF.

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

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