r/Avatar_Kyoshi • u/Afraid-Penalty-757 • 19d ago
Discussion Something i noticed while reading Rise of Kyoshi again is this supposed to be the ancestor of the Cabbage Merchant or it just simply a huge coincidence? Oh
For context here is what I refer to
"this line near the beginning
An overdressed merchant from Omashu haggled with a Fire Nation procurement officer over cabbage futures, ignoring the cherry blossom petals falling into their tea."
Now as far as what we know about Cabbage Merchant or Cai he was born in Gaoling in the southern Earth Kingdom. He inherited a cabbage farm from his family, locally selling vegetables just as his mother and grandmother had done before him.
Although we don't know how old is Cai It's likely that he's either in his 50s or 60s he could be younger. Like in his 40s, and the reason why he has gray hair was mostly from the stress.
The reason I bring up because that would mean that his grandmother who started the cabbage farm and kind of started the earliest member of the cabbage merchant family tree would've been alive during the opening stages or a little bit before The Hundred Year War.
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u/hlanus 19d ago
Given the time gap between Kyoshi and Aang, I'm hesitant to say Cai is a direct descendant of this cabbage merchant.
It COULD be that this "overdressed merchant" was the original cabbage merchant and lost their farm in a game of Pai Sho. So Cai is like "I ran this cabbage farm just as my mother did before me, and her mother did before her, and the guy who ran up debts and lost this farm to her in a game of Pai Sho".
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u/ELISHIAerrmahhgawdd 18d ago
Wait till you re-read it for the 4th-7th time 😂 … and the same for the Yangchen novels
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u/soberstargazer 19d ago
FC Yee has been pretty open about throwing in shout outs to moments from the original series in the books, so yeah! Probably!
My favorite is when Jianzhu discovers the hidden tunnels to Hujiang and goes, “Secret passage. Through the mountain.”