Sub-Boards

Board	Threads	Posts	Last Post
Si Wong Rock A gigantic mesa that rises from the center of the rolling dunes of the Si Wong Desert, looming imposingly over the landscape. Considering its flat, barren surroundings, the mesa would appear supernaturally out of place. Ancient Sandbender lore tells that the rock was dropped from the heavens by the gods as a demonstration of their potent power and incense when human inhabitants had stopped abiding by the rules of their priests. Regardless of its true origin, the rock is the only notable landscape feature of the barren desert, aside from the now completely buried library, and is thus used as a guidepost by the Sandbenders or any others who traverse through the Si Wong. In addition to being a visual landmark, the rock is also composed of a metallic ore that gives it magnetic qualities, allowing the Sandbenders to create compasses that work throughout the desert, giving them their location in relation to the rock. Atop of rock stands a large hive home to a colony of carnivorous Buzzard-Wasps who are known to immediately defend their home against anyone who disturbs. Moderator: Altus	0	0	No posts have been made on this board.
Wah Shi Tong's Spirit Library An ancient structure built and passed over from the Spirit world to the physical world by the knowledge spirit Wan Shi Tong several thousand years ago for the purpose of the preservation of all the world's knowledge for the betterment of humanity. While it was once a huge palatial structure, a large majority of was buried beneath the sands of the Si Wong and only its top most spire was visible from the desert. With the assisstance of his knowledge seekers, the library has built up an enormous collection, though a portion of it has been destroyed by the Fire Nation. The library also holds an advanced, domed planetary calender room constructed from various fine materials including phosphorescent crystals, jade, and brass. Using its gears, cogs, crystal-projected stars, as well as several rotating planets, the planetarium acts as a kind of almanac, illustrating both recorded history as well as projected future planetary alignments. The library has now been completely buried underneath the desert sands by Wan Shi Tong in an effort to prevent his knowledge from ever being misused. Moderator: Altus	0	0	No posts have been made on this board.
Si Wong Desert With a name that literally translates to "Desert of the Dead" in Mandarin Chinese, it comes as no surprise that the Si Wong Desert holds the driest, hottest environment of the Avatar world and is really nothing more than miles of barren sand. Only a select few are mentally and physically capable of surviving in this desert, let alone navigate through it, for an extended period of time. However, certain desert-dwelling peoples such as the Sandbenders and the Bedouin merchants have come to adapt to the habitat. Nevertheless, even they can find themselves victims to common habital afflictions such as starvation, dehydration and skin cancer. The desert's ecosystem is primarily consisted of cacti and a few scavenger species such as the Gilacorn and the large predatory insectoid Buzzard-Wasp. Moderator: Altus	0	0	No posts have been made on this board.
Misty Palms Oasis Located on the very edge of the Si Wong Desert, the Misty Palms Oasis is bustling cantina which is regularly filled with traders, soldiers, and wanderers. This is the last place to rest up, buy or trade anything before venturing into the desert, making it the proper place to stock up on supplies. Moderator: Altus	0	0	No posts have been made on this board.
Gaoling A large town on the edge of the southern Earth Kingdom, Gaoling is home to both the Bei Fong family and the Earth Rumble tournaments. A very well established place, Gaoling has a variety of people residing in it ranging from the very rich to the very poor, but is mostly filled with middle class citizens whose families have been living there for many generations. On the outskirts of the town are very large, expensive estates where the richest people of the town live, homes to wealthy families such as Toph's. Moderator: Altus	1	1	Master Yu's Earthbending Class by Altus Mar 22, 2007 14:20:41 GMT -5
Chintown A medium sized town, ruled by a mayor. This town was founded by the great conqueror Chin, who is worshipped by the citzens. Chin was killed by Avatar Kyoshi, which led to town celebrating 'Avatar Day', an anti-avatar holiday. During this day, there are festival with fried avatar cookies and floats representing the past avatars, which are burned. Chintown has a strange justice system, called "Just US," where Mayor Tong tells the story like he thinks it is and the accused tells it like what he thinks it is. Then the mayor, with the help the townspeople, decides who is guilty. Those decided guilty spin the wheel of punishment, which contains a series of different punishments, going from community service to being fried in oil. Less dangerous criminals or those waiting for trial are locked in a small prison cell. After Aang's visit to Chintown, and the way he saved it from the Rough Rhinos, Avatar Day was changed to a celebration of the avatar, and unfried dough was served to remember how Aang was not boiled in oil. Moderator: Altus	0	0	No posts have been made on this board.