Sokka removed his wet clothes. Sokka was glad his Gran-Gran thought to pack him some clothes wrapped in seal skin. He was shocked by what he found in the wrapped in the seal skins. Both his grandfathers had been chiefs of the southern water tribe. His paternal grandfather came from the foggy swamp and inside the skin were his iron bark chest body armor.
The body armor had a wolf head carving on the chest. Iron bark can be repaired by infusing it with raw iron and heating it in a forge. The iron oak would absorb the iron to repair itself. iron wood also carved like normal and could be folded like normal wood using steam until it made contact with fire then it became as hard as iron. It was one of the few natural wonder materials found in the Foggy Swamp.
His maternal grandfather was from the Southern Tribe and his warriors leggings made from the shell and sinus of an artic turtle wolverine crocodile and the hide of a rare and fearsome wolverine-tiger was in the skins as well. And finally there was a pair of blue water tribe steel braces, the first bracers Sokka’s father Hakoda made. He used a skull bit from his journeyman kill a wolf-ox to harden them.
“Thank you Gran-Gran.” Sokka says with tears in his eyes.
He knew this was Gran-Gran’s way of believing in Sokka. Sokka changed into the armor. He then grabbed his club and carefully dried the iron ball to make sure it did not rust before slipping it into the slot in the iron bark armor. Sokka then removed his steel boomerang and dried it off. He then pulled out his wen stone, and some rare artic lion flower oil after noticing the edge boomerang was dull. Sokka also fell into a meditative state as he began sharpening the edge of boomerang. This boomeranged was the only steel weapon Sokka could use right now until he passed this rite.
It has never needed to be re-forged in the four thousand years since its creation. It had been passed down from his mother’s line from father to son and was the cause of the spit of the water tribe.
Family legend states that the boomeranged was made from iron sand taken from La and Tui’s pool which was the magnetite scales the two spirits shed. His ancestor Taka competed against another forger family for the hand of the current princess of the Water Tribe in marriage. This was also the time of the second King of the Water Tribe.
Taka spent a week carefully choosing each grain of sand using an iron rod to find only the purist iron since all water tribe iron sands are magnetic. The purer the iron the stronger magnetic force they exert. Then Taka removed the slag by smelting the iron into twenty five coins, then he took the coins added some powered Sea Serpent teeth that he had ripped out from one of the great beasts himself and smelted it again. In the end Taka only had a small one pond ingot. He then spent the rest of the month folding this ingot into boomerang. In total he lovingly folded the steel over a million times to make boomerang. He then quenched the boomerang in a mix of frozen sea serpents blood, imported dragons blood, and water from the oasis.
The other forger a man named Hinaka made a simple ten pound hammer with a short shaft making it more of a tool then a weapon. The steel was subpar and the inlay work was just silver. The handle was made from ash-oak the most common wood in the world and the leather wrapping was made from an artic ox the most common leather in the north.
All in all the boomerang should have won but Hinaka had a very wealthy father that bribed the judges with many skull bits to pass his son. As a result the Water Tribe split. The King let the princess who he knew was in love with Taka leave with him. Legend also had it that Taka and the Princess had three children. The oldest was a boy who would return to the Northern Tribe to become chief. The youngest a girl would settle with some of people who found the foggy swamps warmer climate better and settled in the foggy swamp and she became its first chief. Finally the youngest a boy was the first child born in the Southern Water Tribe. Sokka was related to all three of those children.
Sokka came out of his thoughts as his boomerang was honed back to a razors edge. Sokka always found the fact that boomerang’s lost iron reabsorbed back into itself. Sokka place the boomerang into a slot in his armor. Armor was only allowed when hunting the most dangers beasts with thick armored hides. Some of the beasts were the great artic turtle wolverine crocodile, sea serpents, the rare but still living frost dragons, and finally Lynx Gorillas since they wore armor made form bone. No Lynx Gorilla has been seen since the start of the raids and even before that they were quite rare after Southern Lynx Man War. Sokka stretched to get a feel for the armor he was wearing.
Sokka then headed into the cave like city of Atlantra, Sokka admired the Hei Bai crystals. Sokka thought the South Pole had no Hei Bai crystals. Sokka found it strange that he no longer felt cold but was not hallucinating like he should be from hypothermia, since he knew it was still very cold.
Sokka makes his way to the center of the ruined city to find two guards standing in front of an ice gate wearing armor made form ox turtle shell. Lynx Gorillas were surprisingly thin, stood mostly upright, and looked like a man cat with hands for feet. (Think a stocky khajiit from the elder scrolls games that is partly hunched over but still stand mostly upright with feet hands too.) The taller of the two was definite female standing at six feet and war a loin cloth like bottom and shell gloves for boots. The smaller one was male at five feet nine inches and ware armored pants with leather boots. The female proceeds to release a loud roar.
Sokka moves his hand to his club but does not draw the weapon. A few minutes later the gate opens and an eight foot female wearing armor made form artic turtle wolverine crocodile shell. Her armor had pauldrons made from human skulls along with human skull knee guards. She wore a red loin cloth like skirt and glove boots. Strapped to her back were two machetes. Sokka knew form his Gran-Grans stories that Lynx Gorillas were a matriarchal race, meaning they were led by females.
“So another man has come to challenge me for the right to be King of the Water Tribe. At least this time it will be from a man of the Southern Tribe. I can pay your tribe back for the damage your human war with the Fire Nation has caused my people.
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