---his·to·ry

a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people---

There was no such thing as history before he happened.

Before the Avatar, history didn't even exist.

Of course, that didn't stop history from happening. People were born and died, and there were fights and peace, and the world kept spinning.

But before he came, it didn't need a name. All of this happened, and no one thought anything of it, because they didn't know what 'all of this' was called. People make stories and recount legends, assumptions are made based on facts found, but no one knows the complete truth about the times before the first Avatar, because no one bothered to remember.

It happened shortly after the first war. The Spirits must have realized what the people of the planet were (and still are) capable of and decided it was time to do something about it. The humans (water, soil, air, and the newly born fire) needed to be shown who's boss. For this to happen there was just one catch.

One of the Spirits had to become human.

There wasn't a way to do this from the Spirit World. One of them had to take things into their own hands and become a mortal, and feel the way the humans felt, and understand their ways of life, and tell the other Spirits what it was like, so they'd get a better understanding on how to stop the wars.

Now, the Council of Spirits could easily get together and assign someone to become the mortal, but they decided against it. This mortal needed to be someone who wanted the job, who wanted to experience pain and love and all these fickle 'emotions' the humans enjoyed so much. Otherwise, it wouldn't be done correctly. This job was to be handled with the up most care, and if someone who didn't want to be there was forced to do it, well, they wouldn't try their best.

No, the Spirits needed someone who would embrace the change; who wanted this, and would live the way they intended.

His name was Hoyt.

Well, that was his human name. His real, spirit name was Avatar.

His whole existence was circled around the humans. He watched them, and cared for them, and wished wished wished he was one of them.

I've hear that it was La; La was the one who first suggested Avatar become a human. Everyone slowly agreed, for Avatar cared so much for the mortals, he would be sure to do a good job.

And at the meeting where they made the final decision, perhaps the most important meeting in history, The Discussion took place.

"So," La began, voice like a swirling song, "You shall become a human of the Water Tribes."

While Tui nodded along, there was a disruption with the other Spirits. Agni boomed out his complaints, claiming that Avatar should be born into the new Fire Nation, while the other elements also voiced opinions.

Of course, no one is positive how, but eventually the conclusion was drawn to make him born of all of these, of all four elements and Nations, so he could understand every view point.

Avatar did not object.

And so he was born into the Fire peoples, and the Air peoples, and the Earth peoples, and the Water peoples.

And he lived, and he grew. It's not for sure whether or not Hoyt had a real mother, and a real family, or even real friends. It is just known that he was born, and he walked the Earth, and learned many things.

One of these many things was the elements. Hoyt decided he wanted to learn how to bend each element, to better understand each race.

Much happened to Hoyt, but that is story for another day. That is his story, and one I am unable to tell. My story, however, is one about the World, this whole place and how it came to be remembered.

You see, without Hoyt the World would be void of many things. If it wasn't for him, then the Spirits wouldn't keep Hoyt's Spirit (still referred to as Avatar, even after he got his human name) in the people, and they wouldn't re-birth him every cycle.

Every new body in which this Spirit lives is two people. There is, of course, themselves living in them, but there is also the Spirit of Avatar living in their body as well. Through the stories of the different times, this will never change. They call this person, The Avatar.

Each person, Avatar or not, has a story. It is up to you to make it a comedy, or a tragedy, or decide if you even want to tell it at all.

But as for Hoyt, well, the story of the World (my story) just happens to tie into his a great deal.

For without The first Avatar, without his story, there would be no history at all.

--- av·a·tar

the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god ---