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However, in their book The Art of the Animated Series , the creators finally explain that pressure from Nickelodeon's legal team forced the producers to change the name — because Kya was already being used elsewhere in a video game.

In , two years before Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered but after the unaired pilot was developed, the video game Kya: Dark Lineage was released. Due to the fact that the protagonist in the game was also named Kya, Nickelodeon's legal team forced the show's producers to pick something else. The Art of the Animated Series reveals that one of the other options for Kya's new name was Kanna, which was later used as the name of Katara's grandmother.

Luckily, Katara was chosen — and it's the perfect name for the character. In this episode, the Gaang meets Hama, an older Waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe, who escaped her imprisonment. It is through Hama that viewers get a better understanding of what happened to the Waterbender.

Hama happened to be the last Waterbender standing in the Southern Water Tribe, until Katara was born. However, Katara's mother wasn't a Waterbender. In Season 3, Episode 16, "The Southern Raiders," viewers get a clearer picture of what happened to Kya: She falsely confessed to being the Southern Water Tribe's sole remaining Waterbender in order to protect a young Katara. Unfortunately, the Fire Nation officer behind the raid, Yon Rha, was no longer taking captives. From the audiences' understanding, the Fire Nation was not killing benders or non-benders during the Southern Water Tribe raids unless it was in combat.

But Kya was not a warrior like her husband, Hakoda; she wasn't even fighting back, and gave herself up willingly. Explore Wikis Community Central.

Register Don't have an account? Yon Rha. View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Yon Rha is a minor yet pivotal antagonist of the Avatar the Last Airbender series. He was voiced by Tim Dang. Biography Yon Rha is the firebender responsible for the murder of Katara's mother Kya.

Trivia His reason for murdering Kya instead of taking her prisoner may have been because of Hama , as he didn't want to take in another potential bloodbender.

His name is similar to the Marvel comics villain, Yon-Rogg. Navigation Villains.