as early as this, “something” was hiding in the central Earth Kingdom’s West Lake, a plotline that would come to fruition in Book Two: Earth, Chapter Twelve: The Serpent’s Pass.Aang still had his futuristic staff at this stage, indicating that at this point in development he was probably still from one thousand years ago rather than one hundred, from an ancient technologically-advanced civilization.the Air Temples were referred to as “Air Temple South”, “Air Temple East”, etc.the “Earth Nation” in the early draft became the “Earth Kingdom” as we know it in the later one.
There’s actually a lot of cool series development stuff hidden away here too, notably:
Today Bryan Konietzko revealed these early world of Avatar concepts on his Instagram ( 1, 2), showing Aang’s personal map featuring his favorite animals around the world! There’s a rough draft and then the version included in the famous “series bible” pitched to Nickelodeon. Aang’s Map of the World: early Avatar world map concept art revealed for the first time!
