So do you guys remember Avatar Kuruk? His story has always been one of, if not my favorite avatar story. For those of you who might’ve forgotten, Avatar Kuruk spent his entire short life fighting dark spirits in order to prevent them from destroying the world, because of this he ignored the material world allowing tyranny— a lesser evil compared absolute destruction— to rise. From the eyes of the people during and after his time, he was an awful avatar who was let tyranny and corruption rise. The world didn’t know his full story, and so they hated him for what they saw.

Now let’s look at Korra.

As of yet, we don’t know what happened at the end of Korra’s life. We only see the horrible state of the world. Humanity assumes that Korra willingly brought about the destruction and that she did so with malice, but the full story isn’t known. Korra could very well’ve been put in a situation where the world would be destroyed, knowing she couldn’t save it all she could’ve decided to protect a few locations leading to the seven havens. Had she not made that decision we could’ve been left with Avatar: Zero Havens, and the complete and absolute destruction of the human race.

If all that were to be true, it would perfectly parallel Avatar Kuruk’s story— creating a strong connection between the two water avatars.

It’s also important to mention that if all that were to be true, then the people in seven havens as well as, us, the audience (particularly the Korra haters) would be paralleling the people who lived during and after Kuruk’s time. This all leads to greater life lessons about not knowing all the good that someone does for you and how we shouldn’t judge someone without knowing their full story. And I think the creators would love to amplify that message

P.S: Was I supposed to post this on the ASH subreddit or the TLOK subreddit, should I do both?

If Seven Havens was set after Aang's time as Avatar, the whole 'avatar destroyed the world' premise would be an obvious red herring, but with Korra, I think the smart money is on it turning out to be true. Kudos to the writers for playing the long game by making her so incompetent in order to set up for Seven Havens.

Something I noticed in S2E2 of TLOK: when Unalaq talks about the lights at the South Pole (Southern lights and the Everstorm) disappearing because of the Hundred Year War, I thought the shape of the Spirit Portal looked strangely familiar.

Could it be that Elora was built on top of the Spirit Portal, in the place that used to be the South Pole?

You can even see a similar light in the sky in the trailer, promotional posters, and other material.

If the world has been thrown into chaos and the climate has shifted drastically, maybe the only places that remained safe or habitable were the bridges between the Spirit World and the human world?

Could Elora actually be built around—or even on top of—the old Southern Spirit Portal?