The Next Avatar Series Has a New Name, and a New Hero

11 years after The Legend of Korra came to an end, the cycle of the Avatar continues one more: after years of teasing and planning, Nickelodeon is ready to introduce the world to a brand new Avatar series.

Deadline reports that this morning Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios announced that its next major project is Avatar: Seven Havens, a 26-episode, 2D animated TV series that will mark the next major chronological leap in the Avatar timeline after the events of The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra. Franchise co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will develop the series.

Seven Havens will be set in an apocalyptic world devastated by a cataclysm that has torn the both the human and spirit worlds asunder, with the remnants of civilization holding out from total annihilation in the titular strongholds throughout the world. A young female Earthbender, currently unnamed, will star as the next inheritor of the powers of the Avatar–the transcendental re-incarnating hero of destiny who commands the power to simultaneously wield the four elemental bending arts of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water–only to find that in this cataclysmic age, the mantle of the Avatar is a portent of doom and destruction, rather than a savior.

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