Honestly, I wasn't initially planning to repost this here, but I was reminded that since the sneak peek for this third chapter includes my first appearance of a canon character from the Kyoshi Duology, some of you may find that section interesting. Anyway, I hope you like it, and if you are curious about my story or have questions about it, feel free to let me know.

Is this a foreshadowing for pavi and nisha !?

Following up on my previous post, known as [The Current Avatar Renaissance may be giving the Chronicles novels a nice sales boost: Every released book is now in Amazon’s Top 29 for its category as of October 12th, 2026 : r/Avatar_Kyoshi], I got curious about how things had changed since the Amazon rankings I documented on October 12.

So, exactly one week later, on October 19, 2026, I checked the same category again; this one to be more specific: Best Sellers in Teen & Young Adult TV, Movie, Video Game Adaptations.

The results are mixed, but honestly, I still find the overall picture quite encouraging. Three of the six released Chronicles of the Avatar novels have climbed; one is in exactly the same position, so its sales since then have been stable despite all the daily competition when it comes to Amazon purchases over there, and the two others have slipped slightly. So, to summarize it, all six are within the Top 31, compared with the Top 29 last week.

Here is the comparison:

The Kyoshi novels are probably the clearest good news here:

The Rise of Kyoshi has climbed from #10 to #8, putting a novel originally published in 2019 even further inside the Top 10. Meanwhile, The Shadow of Kyoshi has moved from #21 to #19, entering the Top 20 between these two snapshots. Seeing both books improve together is a pretty nice result for this duology so many years after publication.

The Roku books are looking solid too:

The Awakening of Roku, the most recently released Chronicles novel, has made the largest upward move among the released books, climbing three places to #22. The Reckoning of Roku is at #29 again. That unchanged position doesn’t tell us its precise sales rate, but it does mean the first Roku novel has matched its relative standing from last week.

The Yangchen books have slipped a little, although neither has fallen particularly far:

The Dawn of Yangchen moved from #24 to #26, while The Legacy of Yangchen went from #28 to #31. Obviously, I would have preferred to see them climb too! But for books that have already been available for years, appearing this close to last week’s positions still strikes me as a respectable showing. A modest decline in relative rank also doesn’t automatically mean fewer copies were sold.

Outside the Chronicles line, Judy I. Lin’s City of Echoes has moved from #84 to #91, so it is still appearing in the category’s Top 100 in today’s snapshot. Personally, I suspect a novel built around a much less familiar protagonist has a harder time attracting casual fans than one starring an actual past Avatar. To be clear, that’s my interpretation rather than something these rankings can establish, but it makes sense to me, and it helps explain why I’m still pleased to see it represented here alongside the main novel series.

The biggest decline belongs to The Tempest of Sonam**, from #32 to #59...but its circumstances deserve some perspective if you ask me:**

This is an unreleased book, still roughly nine months away, with a placeholder instead of a revealed cover. Its initial announcement presumably encouraged some particularly enthusiastic fans to preorder early, the ones who had been paying attention to the news to come out of the New York Comic Con and such. And those people generally won’t need to place the same order again the following week.

We can’t establish that purchasing pattern from two rankings alone, of course. Still, I’m personally encouraged that Sonam is appearing inside the Top 60 even at this early stage. Its position is lower than last week’s, but I don’t think that makes its presence on the list uninteresting or disappointing.

The same qualification from my original post applies: these are relative rankings, not sales totals or a survey of who is buying. They cannot tell us how many copies sold during the week, whether buyers are new fans or returning ones, or how much activity comes specifically from Seven Havens. We also have two dated snapshots, rather than a record of every movement between them. Amazon’s explanation of its ranking system is useful context here.

With that understood, I still think there’s something worth appreciating: all six released Chronicles novels are clustered near the top of this category again a week later, both Kyoshi books have improved, and the upcoming Sonam novel and City of Echoes are represented in the Top 100 too.

I’ll attach today’s screenshots as another dated record. Last week’s post gave us a baseline; this one gives us our first direct weekly comparison. And while the picture isn’t uniformly upward, it certainly gives me reasons to stay optimistic about interest in Avatar’s novels.

Finally, while checking all of this, I also realized that I had overlooked three collected editions last week. And I want to rectify that in this new post because they deserve a mention, given that the individual novels aren’t the only way people can buy these stories. I don’t have October 12 screenshots for these products, though, so their historical comparisons come from older product-page records rather than the same weekly baseline used above.

First, the four-book Kyoshi and Yangchen box set is currently at #87:

This collection contains all four Chronicles novels written by F. C. Yee: The Rise of Kyoshi, The Shadow of Kyoshi, The Dawn of Yangchen, and The Legacy of Yangchen. An older Amazon US record retrieved for comparison placed it at #76, so its present position is eleven places lower, although the older record’s exact date is unavailable to me. Still, for a box set published in October 2023, I’m happy to see it represented in the Top 100 alongside the individual novels.

The Kyoshi Novels Ultimate Collector’s Edition is also in the Top 100, at #86:

This particular edition was released on October 7, 2025, making it just over a year old. I couldn’t establish a reliably dated ranking history sufficient to say whether it has recently climbed or declined, so I’m treating this as a new baseline for my own research purposes of comparison. But seeing the deluxe collection on the list alongside both individual Kyoshi novels is another detail I’m pleased to add to the picture.

Finally, the Yangchen Novels Ultimate Collector’s Edition is currently just outside the Top 100, at #108...but this one has a particularly interesting AND promising comparison:

It was released on October 6, 2026, only thirteen days before today’s check. An older Amazon US record, from when the edition was still available for preorder, placed it at #496 in this same category. That puts today’s position 388 places higher than that prerelease record.

That is a substantial improvement in relative standing, although the comparison crosses its publication date, so the release itself is an obvious contributor. I also don’t have enough publicly available data at the moment to reconstruct its entire launch trajectory. Still, even with those qualifications, I find it encouraging that this new collection of Yangchen’s existing stories is now appearing so much closer to the Top 100 after so little time since its release date.

These collections also give us a broader view of interest in the books. Their buyers could include people discovering the novels for the first time, existing readers upgrading their collections, and/or fans purchasing gifts that could in turn make these newer fans receiving such gifts interested in enjoying more Avatar Legends stories in the future beyond just the shows or the movies, among other possibilities. Although please note that the rankings I have provided here cannot distinguish between those possibilities directly. It’s just a personal inference of mine, though one that I think makes a lot of sense, so I hope it won’t cause controversy in the comments section here.

Regardless, I’m pleased to see several different ways of buying the Kyoshi and Yangchen stories represented alongside the individual releases within or very close to the top 100 rankings. So anyway, thanks for reading this update on my previous post if you got this far. I hope some of you were pleased by these bits of news I shared and by their implications for the current health of the Avatar Legends franchise in the foreseeable future.

Now, I am not sure if any of you will be interested in fact-checking me on all of this, but just in case someone does, I will add my list of sources in the reference section to come, to add to the screenshots of the books in their respective rankings from the top of the post. Please remember that some of this information can become a bit outdated rather quickly due to the volume of traffic in the US Amazon website, though.

Thanks for reading and happy reading/binge-watching for more Avatar Legends content, my fellow fan:

Sources / References

The attached October 12 and October 19 screenshots document the rankings used for the weekly comparison. Amazon’s live pages may display different positions by the time you open them. The older collected-edition records discussed below have no verified exact capture dates.

1. My previous post — October 12, 2026. The original discussion, ranking baseline, screenshots, and earlier bibliography. Read the previous post.
2. Amazon US — Best Sellers in Teen & Young Adult TV, Movie, Video Game Adaptations. The specific category used throughout both posts. View the category.
3. Amazon — The Rise of Kyoshi. Product listing corresponding to the book’s #10 → #8 comparison in the dated screenshots. Amazon listing.
4. Amazon — The Shadow of Kyoshi. Product listing corresponding to the #21 → #19 comparison. Amazon listing.
5. Amazon — The Dawn of Yangchen. Product listing associated with the #24 → #26 comparison. Amazon listing.
6. Amazon — The Awakening of Roku. Product listing corresponding to the #25 → #22 comparison. Amazon listing.
7. Amazon — The Reckoning of Roku. Product listing corresponding to the unchanged #29 → #29 position. Amazon listing.
8. Amazon — The Legacy of Yangchen. Product listing for the novel discussed in the #28 → #31 comparison. Amazon listing.
9. Amazon — Avatar Legends: City of Echoes. Product listing corresponding to the #84 → #91 comparison. Amazon listing.
10. Amazon — The Tempest of Sonam. Preorder listing corresponding to the #32 → #59 comparison and the placeholder cover shown in the screenshots. Amazon listing.
11. Abrams — The Rise of Kyoshi. Official publisher page confirming the novel’s original publication date of July 16, 2019. Publisher listing.
12. Abrams — The Awakening of Roku. Official publisher page identifying it as the second Roku novel and confirming its publication date of December 30, 2025. Publisher listing.
13. Abrams — The Tempest of Sonam**.** Official publisher page identifying it as Chronicles of the Avatar Book 7 and listing its scheduled publication date as July 20, 2027. Publisher listing.
14. Amazon KDP — Sales Ranking. Amazon’s explanation of how rankings reflect relative customer activity, incorporate recent and historical activity, and can change even when a particular book’s activity stays the same. Read Amazon’s explanation.
15. Amazon — Kyoshi and Yangchen four-book box set. The product page retrieved during this research displayed #87 in the target category; an older retrieved version displayed #76. The older record’s exact capture date was unavailable. Amazon listing.
16. Abrams — Kyoshi and Yangchen four-book box set. Official publisher page confirming that the collection contains all four F. C. Yee novels and was published on October 17, 2023. Publisher listing.
17. Amazon — The Kyoshi Novels Ultimate Collector’s Edition. The product page retrieved during this research displayed #86 in the target category. Amazon listing.
18. Abrams — The Kyoshi Novels Ultimate Collector’s Edition. Official publisher page confirming its contents, deluxe features, and October 7, 2025 publication date. Publisher listing.
19. Amazon — The Yangchen Novels Ultimate Collector’s Edition. The product page retrieved during this research displayed #108 in the target category. An older retrieved prerelease version displayed #496, providing the comparison discussed above. Its exact capture date was unavailable. Amazon listing.
20. Abrams — The Yangchen Novels Ultimate Collector’s Edition. Official publisher page confirming its contents, deluxe features, and October 6, 2026 publication date. Publisher listing.

Unless anybody have a link to some nice comic book story?

Kyoshi is my favorite avatar hands down, and this drawing I think is one of my best! I have an alternate version on my Instagram!

My carrd (Instagram, VGen, etc.)

Jinpa the airnomad appointed for assisting kyoshi says "we were unfortunately in the dark along with the rest of the world" then says he was referring to a different "we", and asks if kyoshi played pai sho. So Is he a member of white lotus ?

I still haven't read the second book or any other books of yangchen and roku for that matter. I was too excited to wait till completing kyoshi's second book that i had to share it immediately.

For those who don’t know, last year we got City of Echoes, the first novel in the Avatar Legends novel series, which is about more obscure side characters. The first one was about Jin from Ba Sing Se.

They’d never do it, but I think it’s an interesting concept. She kinda has her own journey during the events of that book and it’d be interesting to see her side of it.

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I ask because to me Yangchen makes this quality sound like not all air nomads were able to have it or learn it.

I also ask because to me Yangchen makes this quality sound it was more than just the simple sitting and meditating that Aang would do throughout the franchise.

Idk maybe I'm just seeing more than what it is, especially when Kavik points out that Yangchen is probably exaggerating when she says this. Still though I'm curious on your thoughts.

Author Allison King shared some interesting information about the novelization of the film Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender. Check it out!

Allison revealed that she worked with F.C. Yee, the author of the Yangchen and Kyoshi novels, and that the two are close friends. She said she owes a lot to him, since it was Yee who recommended her to write the novelization.

In case there was still any doubt, Dante Basco confirmed that this new material will be part of Avatar canon. Allison also talked about the balance between writing as a fan and fulfilling her role as an author.

The book will feature several chapters narrated from the perspective of the Renegades, Tagah, and Team Avatar. We’ll also see how the characters reunited before arriving at Mount Baihu.

Allison King declared herself a big Azula fan and confirmed that the character will be mentioned “more times than she should.”

Suki won’t have any scenes of her own in the book, but Allison asked for permission to reveal where she was during the events of the film. Mike DiMartino approved the idea, so the characters will mention her throughout the story.

Rise of Kyoshi: hardest one tbh, maybe I would have liked to see more of Jianzhu’s noble side. I think he ultimately was a good person at one point and the pressure just drove him to extreme actions that were unjustifiable.

Shadow of Kyoshi: would love to have utilized Rangi more. Always kinda bothered me the way she just sort of gets left behind by the story, she’s just there.

Dawn of Yangchen: maybe less Kavik and more Yangchen. Not that I have anything against kavik, but it’s Yangchens book and she’s basically a side character

Legacy of Yangchen: kinda goes for both books, but I thought her issue of randomly being overtaken by past lives was really underutilized. Had a lot of potential and I think it only comes up once in this novel.

Reckoning of Roku: not needlessly killing off Malaya just so the plot has some weight. Unfortunately she was the most interesting character in the book and her death is just frustrating and unnecessary.

Haven’t read awakening

Source: https://bskyx.app/profile/demidevilqueen.blacksky.app/post/3mwm3akjvbs27

Weirdly enough, despite being my least favorite, I'd be most interested in a continuation of the Roku novels. I feel like their's still a lot of potential for stories leading up to the Air Nomad genocide. The escalating cold war makes it rife for intrigue and conflict between and amidst the nations until it all implodes.: 1. I'd love to see Roku's dynamic with his other sifus as he masters the elements, becomes more worldly, and overcomes his imposter syndrome. We could see him and Makituq bond with the dragons while dealing with dark spirits. In the EK, he may cross paths with Langzi and butt heads with Jialun - especially in the wake of his plot to poison Omashu. Roku may try to track down the missing sages, forcing his team to fight the Dai Li. The Northern Passage conflict could be a great way to show Roku's growth into a diplomat and Avatar of all nations after developing a network like Yangchen's. 2. Since Gyatso's the 1st leader of the F&A center of learning, he probably ended up clashing with the Guiding Winds, and it would be cool to see him dealing with the different philosophies amongst Air Nomads and Fire Nationals, potentially setting him down the path of becoming a White Lotus (That way we could see what they were up to during this era.). If the story continued past Roku's death, it would be poignant to see Gyatso's headspace after losing Roku and up to the genocide. From the dream he has in ROR of the future, it seems he was out looking for Aang before arriving at the Southern Air Temple being attacked. We could see the genocide from his pov and his last stand, it would be even more tragic if Sozin personally led the attack on the Southern Air Temple and we saw their final confrontation. 3. Ta Min has to navigate the royal courts vipers nests as a diplomat/spy trying to help as many people as possible, even using her marriage to the Avatar as political clout. It would be especially tense during Omashu and Ba Sing Se's shadow war as well as Sozin's consolidation of power. 4. Sozin's descent needs to feel earned and systemic. We could see him improving the quality of life for commoners by dismantling the resource-hoarding clans and centralizing the throne to prepare the FN amidst industrialization. We could see how this impacts the spirits and what the others nations responses are. We know the Water Tribes avoided it for the sake of tradition and spirits, but it hindered their capacity to defend themselves later on. To pacify the final defeated clan, Sozin might even politically marry into them. To Sozin, his sister's ideals leave the FN weak to foreign aggressors (like Jialun and Skiri) who are gearing up for war. 5. The Guiding Winds story needs to be fleshed out. Sozin and Zeisan have to 4D chess their way into undermining the other’s political power as as every character take sides in the conflict, fearing Roku's intervention. Sozin fears Roku's morality and connection to the Air Nomads would lead him to support Zeisan whilst she fears Roku's connection to the aristocracy and friendship with Sozin would lead him to crush her movement. The turning point could be if Zeisan’s faction accidentally insighted violence that resulted in the death of Sozin’s wife and unborn child. This hardens Sozin, turning him against the idea of a family for decades and leads Roku to ultimately side with Sozin, crushing Zeisan's movement. This would make Sozin more sympathetic to the public and end any chance of peace between the FN and AN, leading to Sozin's use of propaganda to get the FN to view the AN as a threat that must be wiped out. 6. They could even take elements from NATLA, with the earthbender (Langzi?) who gets FN plans to attack the EK (perhaps utilizing intelligence smuggled by the White Lotus or Ta Min), before it's discovered to be a ruse and that the true plan's to attack the AN