Location from Avatar: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
Aang's childhood home — a mountaintop monastery of soaring spires and sky bison stables, now a silent graveyard where the Fire Nation's genocide of the Air Nomads began.
The Southern Air Temple is where Aang grew up playing airball with Monk Gyatso, racing sky bison through cloud banks, and learning the ways of his people. It is also where he returns to discover they are all dead. The temple sits atop a mountain so high that only airbenders or sky bison could originally reach it — a natural defense that failed when Sozin's Comet enhanced the firebenders' power enough to overcome it. The skeletons of Air Nomads and Fire Nation soldiers still lie where they fell, including Gyatso's remains surrounded by dozens of fallen firebenders — evidence that the gentle monk fought like a hurricane at the end. Finding Gyatso's body triggered Aang's first uncontrolled Avatar State. The temple is beautiful and heartbreaking: windchimes still ring, gardens have gone wild, and the air sanctuary where past Avatars' statues stand remains intact. It represents everything Aang lost and carries.
Elegant white and blue spires rise from a mountain peak high above the clouds. Courtyards, meditation gardens, and airball courts sit on terraced platforms connected by winding paths. Sky bison stables are carved into the cliffsides. The architecture is light and airy, designed for people who could fly. But now it is abandoned — overgrown, dusty, and scattered with the remains of the fallen.
Also known as: Aang's temple, Southern Temple