Significant changes have affected the Water Tribes and the Air Nomads, though the latter is not the same nation it once was.

Still, Zuko remains determined to continue with the path no matter how difficult it becomes, continuing forward with the assistance of Avatar Aang and other allies gained during the course of the War. The New Ozai Society has constantly harassed the Fire Nation's efforts at dismantling the wartime state and efforts from figures such as Princess Azula have instilled fear in those who support the young Fire Lord's policies. While Earth King Kuei has been facing general success in reestablishing the rule of the Earth King after it was eroded to the point of irrelevance during the war, Fire Lord Zuko has faced many challenges to his reign from forces loyal to former Fire Lord Ozai and the jingoistic, nationalistic order that he represents, despite being imprisoned and having had his bending removed by Avatar Aang.

This has still resulted in conflict between established interests and the idealistic goals for these colonies, but nonetheless it proceeds.Īt the same time realignment within the existing nations has been taking place. The end result is a transitional plan to remove the colonies from any nation and form a Fifth Nation where all benders and nonbenders of any nation could live in peace.

Many of the Fire Nation settlers had intermarried with Earth Kingdom natives and established lives so intertwined and settled into the region that they represented something that didn't align with any of the nations, and so the decision was made to more thoroughly debate the matter. This took the form of all Fire Nation colonials withdrawing from the western Earth Kingdom in advance of the region being returned to Earth Kingdom rule, but this was easier said than done. Immediately after the war ended, the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation, the primary belligerents for much of the war, embarked on the Harmony Restoration Movement as a means to re-establish peace between them. No better place is this demonstrated than the last 5 years alone. This was a hopelessly naïve dream, as the world had been so utterly changed that it was impossible to return to things as they once were, at every level of life and society. When the Hundred Year War came to an end, there was a sense of hope that somehow, despite the chaos and struggle and suffering of the last century of conflict, the world could return to the pre-war era of peace and international tranquility, that the return of the Avatar, the withdrawal of the Fire Nation from the western Earth Kingdom, and the restoration of order between the Four Nations could put things back to the way they had been long ago.

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