Avatar: Seven Havens premieres this week, introducing us to the first new Avatar in over 10 years. Original creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko returned for the 2D series, which follows a new Avatar, Pavi, over 200 years after The Legend of Korra. That’s around 300 years after the events of The Last Airbender.
Seven Havens will be streaming exclusively on Paramount+, now under the Skydance banner. The full series is slated for 26 half-hour episodes, just like the good ol’ days. However, those episodes will be split into two “Books,” the Avatar version of seasons.
Avatar: Seven Havens Book 1 Premieres This Week
The first three episodes of Book 1 premiered on October 9. Subsequent episodes will be released in batches every Friday, so all 13 episodes of the Seven Havens will be streaming by the end of October.
Here’s how that all looks in list form:
As mentioned, the series is streaming exclusively on Paramount+. Previous Avatar shows have eventually been released on DVD and Blu-ray, and that also seems likely for Seven Havens in the current Paramount era. The recent Avatar Aang movie is getting a Blu-ray release, which is a good sign for this new show.
Episode titles were originally reported by Polygon, alongside promotional art for each batch:
Avatar: Seven Havens Episode Title Reveals
As for what to expect from the show, Seven Havens follows the usual Avatar tradition by picking up with, well, a new Avatar. The star of the new animated series is a young earthbender named Pavi.
Korra picked up less than a century after The Last Airbender, entering an era of industrialization in an otherwise recognizable version of the Four Nations. Seven Havens, in contrast, jumps over 200 years into the future.
Early episodes of Season 1 show an entirely distinct post-apocalyptic world that generally despises the notion of the Avatar and lacks technology. Given the amount of time that’s passed, it’s possible something happened to the Avatar Cycle to cause a delay in its continuation after Korra’s passing. Otherwise, Korra may have hit a Kyoshi-level lifespan.
Either way, it seems like some real crazy stuff went down after Korra and Asami walked into the sunset.
Paramount, which has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros., has been rebuilding the Avatar franchise over the past couple of years. Most recently, Paramount dropped Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, a new animated movie featuring the original Gaang all grown up. That was notoriously leaked online in protest of Paramount’s refusal to give it a theatrical release, but we were fans of the movie nonetheless.
Otherwise, while Seven Havens has already been greenlit for 26 episodes, there’s no word on when we’ll actually see Book 2. We’ll likely hear more about the series’ future as well as other projects like the Avatar fighting game at NYCC this weekend.
The most recent announcement from Paramount confirmed that the series is already renewed for seasons 3 and 4, so there’s plenty more on the way.
Blythe (she/her) is an Audience Development Coordinator at IGN who spends way too much time in character customization screens and tracking down collectibles.
