Avatar: Seven Havens Is Recreating Aang’s Journey After Time Jump Update

Published Nov 11, 2026, 10:30 AM EST Sean is a senior writer for ScreenRant and has been writing about new TV releases since December 2023. He has received multiple advance screenings of popular shows and ideated his own coverage read by hundreds of thousands of readers. Sean is a self-published author of a Western novel. Sean has also written award-winning opinion pieces related to local politics while getting his Bachelor's degree in journalism. A new update about the timeline of Avatar: Seven Havens confirms that the new sequel series will be recreating a core part of Aang's journey from Avatar: The Last Airbender. As the newest show in the franchise, Seven Havens has drawn from both The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra in fairly equal measure. Korra briefly appears in flashbacks, for instance, while Seven Havens' new Avatars, Pavi and Nisha, are much closer in age to Aang. Korra should continue to be very important to the already-renewed Seven Havens season 2, especially considering her unknown connection to the Cataclysm. As important as she is and will remain, however, a new update about Seven Havens has brought Nisha and Pavi more in line with Aang than Korra. That update also has some serious implications for the timeline of Avatar as a whole, in addition to Seven Havens' timeline more specifically. Bringing Pavi and Nisha closer to Aang also seems like a bit of a no-brainer. Avatar: The Last Airbender is widely regarded as one of the best animated shows ever made. The Legend of Korra has aged well, but it was far less universally acclaimed. Seven Havens should take as much inspiration from Aang and Team Avatar as possible. Luckily, the show's creators have announced that they're going to do exactly that. Avatar: Seven Havens Season 2 Won’t Have A Large Time Jump Credit: Paramount+ A popular fan theory about Avatar: Seven Havens asserted that the show's second season could feature a time jump. Much of that theory was born from concept art of Pavi and Nisha looking older than their distinctly childlike designs in the show itself. Fans speculated that season 2 may take place a few years after season 1, not unlike the three-year time jump in The Legend of Korra season 4. The creators of the show, however, confirmed that Seven Havens won't feature a significant time-jump. While a few days or weeks may pass while Pavi and Jae travel to the Floating Isles, it won't be long enough for the Avatars to noticeably age. In fact, co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino outright said that Seven Havens is following in The Last Airbender's footsteps "time-wise," meaning the series will feature a time jump of a few months at most. Seven Havens’ Timeline Can Help Replicate One Of The Best Parts Of Aang’s Journey Credit: Nickelodeon/Paramount+ The fact that Avatar: Seven Havens season 2 won't have a sizable time jump sets the stage for the newer series to replicate one of the many great aspects of Aang's story in The Last Airbender. At the start of The Last Airbender, Aang was only 12 years old. Though he was only 13 at the end of the series, Aang lost almost all of his innocence during The Hundred Year War, and he wasn't the joyful, energetic kid he started out as. Aang's loss of innocence was one of the best and most thematically rich parts of The Last Airbender. He starts the show wanting nothing more than to go penguin sledding, and he ends it somber and far too mature for his age. Aang experienced so many horrors beyond his imagination. The cruelty of war and famine, the Air Nomad genocide, being killed by Azula and resurrected, and so much more. Aang's corruption is at the heart of why The Last Airbender was so special: it presented these incredibly dark and mature themes to a young audience through a character they could relate to, and it never pulled any of its punches. By not letting Pavi and Nisha physically grow up through a time jump, Seven Havens now has a chance to replicate the incredibly dark and thematically wrought story that was told through Aang's corruption. Nisha and Pavi will still be about 10 years old in season 2. Younger viewers can still relate to them, and they're still the perfect vehicle for Seven Havens to talk about some really heavy topics in a way kids can understand. That also means Nisha and Pavi will have quite a bit of their innocence left to lose. While the ending of Seven Havens season 1 was quite emotionally wrought, these characters are still kids with a childlike wonder about the world. By the time they complete their mission to reopen their chakras and reset the Cataclysm, they may not have that wonder anymore. If Pavi and Nisha experience corruption akin to Aang, it would add another layer of tragedy to their already great story. This is exactly the kind of decision that can give Avatar: Seven Havens more nuance, character development, and maturity. That may be enough to put Pavi and Nisha on par with Aang. Release Date October 9, 2026 Network Paramount+ Showrunner Ethan Spaulding Directors Kenji Ono, Jen Bennett, Jasmine Goggins Writers M. Willis, Chad Quandt, Sehaj Sethi, Lauren Bradley, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Peter H. Lee, Jennifer Cho Suhr Creator(s) Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko