Fan theory suggests Seven Havens could have five more avatars beyond Pavi and Nisha

We could have five more avatars to meet in Avatar: Seven Havens. That's the idea behind a fan theory gaining traction, which suggests Pavi and Nisha aren't the only avatars in this cycle. It looks interesting, but come on, we are still figuring out Pavi and Nisha, and this person is suggesting five more.

I can't say I'm not surprised. Still, I like the idea and the logic behind it, and that's what I love about fan theories. The theory doesn't have to be right to make sense. Further down, I'll get into one part of this theory that connects it directly to Harry Potter.

The twins already raise questions about Raava and Vaatu

There are actually people thinking that the twins were originally one person. And if there are indeed more avatars in this cycle than we have seen, then what happens when all of them die? Do we get a reincarnated version of all of them? And the bigger question: what spirit would they all carry?

Even with Pavi and Nisha, fans theorizing about Vaatu for Nisha and Raava for Pavi are saying there's no way Raava could have been split into two. They go as far as providing the Hindi or Sanskrit meaning for the names, with Pavi meaning light and Nisha meaning darkness. But if a spirit cannot be split into two, then why are we getting one Vaatu inside Nisha and another Vaatu hunting the twins, if what these theorists are saying is true?

Sparklebus asks whether the twin avatars are a red herring

On the multiple avatars theory, the original poster, Sparklebus, asked: "What if the existence of twin avatars is a red herring meant to lead us to believe the series will culminate in a light versus dark avatar?"

This is similar to what many fans believe. Since there are two avatars, it makes sense to look at them as Raava and Vaatu, after Korra's second season gave us two opposing spirit human unions. But the fact that Pavi is gentle and Nisha is aggressive does not identify which spirit each carries.

I think their behavior can come from different lives. You only have to look at Aang and Korra. Aang was gentle, while Korra was very aggressive even at a young age. Nothing Nisha has done so far should make us point fingers at her. We all know what Vaatu stands for, and I don't yet see that in Nisha despite her being aggressive. Pavi wants a relationship with her sister, and Nisha takes resistance to avatar training personally.

Seven havens could mean one avatar for each haven

Another thing that came up in the theory is that the writers chose to represent seven havens using seven children. Maybe that's innocuous. The idea is that one avatar is meant to keep each haven intact.

This would change the Avatar's job. Traditionally the Avatar is meant to protect the whole world, keep both the human and spirit worlds in check, and maintain the balance between them. If each avatar is assigned a haven, and each community has interests that clash with another community's, the avatar responsible could be answerable to that.

You can already see in Seven Havens that there's distrust between settlements, even as one character proposes recruitment from the other havens. These places need each other. The moment you give each of them an avatar, cooperation could become harder, because every leader thinks their own people should come first. Of course, the implication is that Pavi will need to go find her haven, unless perhaps someone in the city wants to keep her there in a havens arms race.

I doubt Pavi and Nisha are septuplets

So are Pavi and Nisha septuplets? I doubt it, and to be fair, the theory doesn't say that either. Its version is that the Avatar was reincarnated into seven babies born around the same time across the rest of the world.

If we're buying this, then we also have to ask why two of those children are apparently twins while the rest are unrelated. Perhaps there is a reason, but the theory has not supplied it. Seven simultaneous births would also need evidence connecting their timing. Without that, we could be confusing separate phenomena simply because they produce similar abilities.

Guru Pathik's chakra lesson describes one person, not seven avatars

Aang's lesson with the guru comes into play in this theory, with ideas like a root chakra avatar and a throat chakra avatar. Remember that someone brought up Guru Pathik to really give us some answers here. He taught Aang that seven chakras exist within a person and must be opened by confronting emotional obstacles. The first has to do with survival and fear. The throat chakra, the sound chakra, concerns truth and lies.

But in that story, we're talking about one person with seven connected centers. It does not establish seven separate avatars. To enter the Avatar State at will, an Avatar needs to open all seven chakras. Maybe Seven Havens is extending that mythology, but what we have so far is not enough to establish seven different avatars, each with a separate chakra.

The theory compares Korra's split to Voldemort's Horcruxes

One weird part of this theory connects Seven Havens and its avatar split directly to Harry Potter, and Lord Voldemort splitting his soul into Horcruxes. In the same way, what if Korra, in an attempt to save seven cities, split her soul into seven Horcruxes, or seven chakras? Again, it doesn't have to be right to make sense.

Korra's human soul, Raava, and access to the elements are related, but they are not interchangeable terms. The Beginnings episodes of book two tell us how one person united with Raava during Harmonic Convergence. We were not shown any way that union can be divided between seven independently reincarnating people. If you want me to buy this, I need more context on the split: what remained connected, and why the result was seven.

One possible explanation, taking Lord Voldemort's story into account, is Korra deciding to split Raava so she doesn't get fully destroyed like she almost did in season 2. Raava's destruction and recovery in Korra's second season finale give Korra a reason to know how vulnerable that bond can become. But the recovery in Light in the Dark involves Raava emerging from Vaatu and reuniting with Korra. It does not demonstrate that fragments could live separately.

Seven avatars might feel like the Avengers, but I kind of like it

If seven avatars appear in the finale of the later seasons, it might feel a bit like the Avengers or something, but I kind of like this theory. My worry would be introducing five people only when a final battle needs reinforcements. And I don't think the wider Avatar Legends universe requires seven concurrent incarnations of avatars to expand the story.

What we should be worried about is whether this changes the twin story. Someone thinks one of the big reveals is that they weren't originally twins but one person, maybe not even the Avatar. In that version, whatever happened in the vision the root chakra gave them caused them to split into two people representing her natural yin and yang essences. The problem is the maybe not an avatar part: if the original child wasn't an avatar, how come both girls received avatar abilities?

I think whatever influence the spirit world is having on the physical world might be causing time to pass in strange ways. Maybe time doesn't flow normally within the storms.

The show admits nobody has seen twin avatars before

Even fans who hated the twin idea at first seem to be warming up to it. The show is not pretending it has the answer. It admits nobody has seen this before, and that honesty makes you trust where it is going. From what we've seen so far, even Caric was surprised to find Pavi alongside Nisha. Unfortunately, his knowledge has reached its limits. Now we have to sit back, see what explanation the show gives us in the end, and then decide if it satisfies our curiosity.

You can understand why the writers would tread carefully here, because plenty of fans still feel Unalaq and Vaatu were handled badly in Korra. Vaatu is already back in Seven Havens, so they cannot afford to fumble him twice. After all this, multiplying avatars could make some fans very nervous.

Multiple avatars would complicate death, rebirth and past lives

We have many reasons to object to the theory. If one avatar dies, does the other die with them so they can be reborn together, or will there be two different cycles going on? Independent deaths could produce successors of different ages. Then, when an avatar after Korra needs to talk to a past life, which one do they contact? Will the fire avatar contact Pavi, Nisha, or both?

The repeating avatar cycle carries identity and experience. If several lives feed into one successor, that successor could inherit conflicting memories of the same event. In the same way, separate successors would produce different histories. None of this can be answered until the show reveals why there are two avatars, and whether this is a new status quo that will continue forever or just a one time fluke remains to be seen.

I agree that the chakra pattern gives us a reason to investigate seven, and the twins prove the familiar arrangement has become unusual. What I'm most interested in is what a third avatar would do to Pavi and Nisha, then a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and a seventh. There's a lot at play, and there are so many uncertainties that need to be studied carefully. Maybe a new episode will give us more context on why there are two, and then we can decide whether to stretch it to a third. I'm especially unconvinced that the title itself settles anything. Seven Havens can carry enormous spiritual importance while Pavi and Nisha remain the only avatars.

Do you think Seven Havens will introduce more avatars beyond Pavi and Nisha?