The Letting Go

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"Remember, you are Kyoshi. You are Kuruk. You are Yangchen. You are Szeto. And so on, all the way back to the beginning. Their accomplishments are your accomplishments."

— Sister Disha motivating Avatar Roku before giving a speech.

"The Letting Go"
Information
Novel	The Reckoning of Roku
Author	Randy Ribay
Chapter	2/53
From page	19
To page	28
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Previous	"A Spirit of No Nation"
Next	"A Way Through"

"The Letting Go" is the second chapter of The Reckoning of Roku.

Overview

As Roku reads on his past lives, he begins to take on some of his Avatar responsibility.

Production notes

Continuity

• Jinpa, a character first introduced in The Rise of Kyoshi, went on to author a book encompassing the experiences of other past Avatars, titled "The Lives of the Avatar".
• Yun is remembered throughout history as the False Avatar who was driven to madness.
• The discovery of Kyoshi's Avatarhood is recounted.
• The Fire Nation method to identify the Avatar was burning inscribed bones and reading their resulted fissures, similar to Wu's method of fortunetelling.

Character revelations

• Avatar Szeto was found to be the Avatar at an early age when he bent a second element.
• Avatar Kuruk was announced to be the Avatar when he came of age, or 16, having been identified by Water Tribe spiritual leaders through typical rituals.
• Gyatso's airbending was partially dysfunctional.