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I was thinking about Embers a bit more today and was reminded of some of how Vathara’s worldbuilding contrasts with the currently ongoing Chronicles of the Avatar novel series (that’s a duology about Kyoshi, a duology about Yangchen, and a currently half-complete duology about Roku, if you’re not familiar). In particular… I don’t know if the writers of those books have read Embers or not (and we’ll probably never get an answer – talking about whether they’ve read specific fics for a fandom they’ve worked on isn’t really something most writers do, for legal reasons) but if someone told me they had… I wouldn’t be surprised. Because it sometimes feels like the novels are going out of their way to debunk some of the major points of Embers’ backstory. It might be coincidence (and some of these are a stretch, I’ll admit) but it is kind of amusing either way:

( Embers versus the Novels )