Spoilers for the Book One finale of Avatar: Seven Havens follow, so turn back now if you’re saving it for a rainy afternoon.
Following on from our look at the Kuruk spin-off, the main event has just wrapped. Paramount+ closed Book One with episode thirteen, “The Root Chakra”, having spent twelve episodes bringing twin Avatars Pavi and Nisha together and then used the finale to fling them apart again.
The big reveal is the family history. Trapped inside the Anomaly’s energy dome over Ellora, the sisters see what really happened: their parents fled with Pavi, frightened of Nisha’s power, and left Nisha behind. Nisha chased them across the Harshlands and, in an uncontrolled rage, brought down the rock that killed them and injured Pavi. This is the sort of thing that ruins a family reunion. Pavi, once she has dealt with the guilt and the fury, defeats the Anomaly by facing her fear, unblocking her root chakra and slipping into something that resembles an Avatar State, though not one we’ve seen before.
Then comes the nasty, neat twist. The people of Ellora assume Nisha stopped the dome and cheer her as their saviour, so the sister who caused the tragedy gets the parade while the one who did the work walks out of town, unable to forgive. Pavi sets off to open her second chakra in a new Haven, glimpsed in a vision as the Floating Isles, leaving Nisha with a city’s adoration and a chakra that stays stubbornly shut.
The Avatar cycle has always been one chosen child carrying the weight of the world. Supplying a second one, it turns out, mostly doubles the sulking. Book Two is greenlit and Books Three and Four are renewed, thirteen episodes apiece, and with seven chakras and seven Havens the arithmetic looks suspiciously like a plan. The finale does not confirm whether Korra caused the Cataclysm in the first place, and has the decency to leave that one glowering in the corner until next time.
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