The Mountain Air is part of the Transitional Sessions prior to the main Avatar Campaign. It is to be GM'd by Bryce.

In the golden years of Late Antiquity, Air Nomads arrived in the remote southeastern highlands of what would one day become the Earth Kingdom. Deeming the lofty tundras and dry tablelands incapable of sustainably supporting their sky bison herds, they moved on, but they left behind their religious ideas and legends of mighty airbending with the indigenous earthbending peoples of the region. In time, these highlanders came to practice a form of the Air Nomad religion, and kept a loose communion with them over the long centuries. Even as the successive dynasties of Great Omashu and then the Earth Kingdom imposed their suzerainty on what they called the State of Lancang, its people remained distinct from them and became known as the "Mountain-Air Villagers."

Centuries later, when the Fire Nation attacked the Air Nomads, aiming to wipe them from the face of the earth, their spiritual siblings of the high plateau welcomed the ragged survivors into their villages and countryside. But this would have a cost. Soon, the Fire Nation began sending raiders deep into the Earth Kingdom to hunt down the refugees, and the Royal Earth Army was too weak and spread-thin to repel this affront to Earth Kingdom sovereignty. Despite his fealty to the Earth Kingdom, the Prince of Lancang even turned collaborationist, attempting to find the refugees and turn them over to the Fire Nation in the hope of sparing his kingdom from further collateral damage.

It has been five years now since the Air Nomad genocide began. In these dark days, your tiny village of settled agriculturalists, Tianjiao (田教村) , has recently taken in a family of Air Nomads from the now-devastated pastures of the Southern Air Temple. In so doing, you have defied the decree of the Prince, and risk not only his wrath, but attacks by Fire Nation raiders. Already there are rumors that the Prince's inquisitors are on their way to your village...

The goal of this two-off will be to protect the Air Nomad refugees (and other villagers) from those who seek to harm them, ideally without compromising your characters' religious obligations regarding violence.

Pregenerated characters can be found below; if you wish to make your own character out of whole cloth or modify one of these, that can also be arranged, just let us know.

(Work in progress)

Chai Queji 柴确吉, 24m

Mo Suonan 墨索南, 17n

Jia Danzeng 郟丹增, a 44-year-old man of Shanqi ethnicity. Danzeng is the officially recognized headman of Tianjiao, though the village is governed by a consensus system. His family are farmers growing highland barley, and also maintaining a vegetable farm and a small goatmarmot herd for the milk and wool. When the village elders discussed sheltering the Air Nomad refugees, Danzeng spoke forcefully in favor of it, and was asked to help come up with a solution. His wife died in an accident six years ago, but he has five children in their late teens and early twenties who help run the farm. Chao Quzhen is is daughter-in-law, having recently married his second-oldest son. (His oldest son became a monk and lives in a monestery in Boshan.) Danzeng is an Earthbender, but of unexceptional skill; he mostly uses his bending for farmwork. The Jia family have lived for may generations in Tianjiao and are respected members of the community.

Qu Qimei 瞿其美, 33f

Pu Wangmu 浦旺姆, 26f

Chao Quzhen 譙曲珍, 18f

Yang Caiwang 閻才旺, 16m

Ha Sangde 哈桑德, 38m