Amon

Amon, born Noatak, was the charismatic and enigmatic leader of a revolutionary group that opposed magic known as the Equalizers. Their ultimate goal was to achieve equality for all, ridding the world of mages forever. A nimble, agile, and stealthy fighter, Amon fearlessly fought his opponents, no matter how powerful mages they were. By claiming to be an ordinary person with no magic, who had been granted the ability by the spirits to permanently deprive a person of magical abilities—a power that only an Avatar had previously demonstrated—Amon won the trust and support of many people with the same ideals. However, when it became clear that Republic City was about to be completely taken over by the Equalizers, Avatar Korra revealed Amun's true identity. In fact, he was a prominent member of the Northern Water Tribe Bloodletter, the son of the fugitive crime boss Yacon. Along with his younger brother, former city councilman Tarlok, Amon unwittingly became the instrument of Yacon's revenge on the Avatar. When his identity was revealed and his followers turned their backs on him, Amon fled the city with Tarrlock, but he set fire to the fuel tank of their speedboat, killing them both.

Noatak was born into the Northern WaterTribe to Yakon and his wife, and was three years older than Tarlok. As a child, he was a good-natured child, always taking care of his younger brother and wanting everyone to be treated fairly and equally. When Noatak and Tarlok learned that they were both water mages, Yakon ruthlessly trained them to develop their abilities. Noatak was a natural mage, and Tarrlok did not develop so quickly, which is why Yakon often insulted him. At first, Noatak stood up for his brother, but stopped when Yakon ordered him never to contradict him. When Notak was ten years old, Yakon took his sons on a supposedly hunting trip far from home, where he revealed his true identity as a criminal from Republic City and told them about the power of blood magic. Stating that their family had the most powerful blood mages in history, he expressed his intention to make his sons blood mages of the highest caliber in order to take revenge on Avatar Aang for depriving him of his magic. Jacone secretly taught boys blood magic during each full moon, forcing them to use this magic on animals such as yaks and wolves until they learned how to use it without a full moon. Noatak enjoyed his newfound power and by the age of fourteen had mastered the unique technique of blood magic Yakone. As a child prodigy, he bore the burden of all his father's expectations and demands. Over the years, he became cold and distant. Eventually, Jacone ordered his sons to cross blades, which Noatak did with ease, ignoring his brother's cries of pain until Iaconè told him to stop. When Tarrlok refused to cross blades with Noatak, Yakone became angry and called him a weakling. But when he began to punish Tarlok, Noatak stopped him by crossing blades with his own father. He then called Yakon weak for depriving him of water magic by the Avatar and reminded his father that they were his children and not "instruments of vengeance".

After that, he suggested that his brother start a new life away from Jacon, but Tarlok refused, worried about his mother. Noatak then agreed with his father that Tarrlok was weak. Throwing Jacona into the snow, Noatak fled into a blizzard, and Yakone and Tarlok set out to find him. In the end, they decided that he had died in a storm. At some point in his life, Noatak figured out how to use blood magic to disrupt the magician's qi, rendering him incapable of conjuring. He took the name "Amon" and became the leader of the Equalizers, an organization that seeks to rid the world of magic. To arouse sympathy and hide the fact that he himself possessed magic, Amon claimed to have been born on a small farm to a poor family with no magical powers, who were terrorized by a fire mage. When his father allegedly turned against the warlock, he and his entire family were killed, and Amun's face was scarred from the attack, forcing him to wear a mask. He also claimed that the spirits had given him the power to strip him of his magic forever because, in their opinion, the Avatar had failed the world and was supposed to usher in an age of equality.

After Avatar Korra announced her official move to Republic City at a press conference at City Hall, Amon told his deputy that Avatar's arrival would force them to accelerate their plans. Later, at a convention of equalizers called "Revelation," Amon revealed his plan to destroy the world of magicians, as they "brought only suffering" and "were the cause of all wars at all times." Amun enlisted the support of his followers by telling a fictional story about how his family, who had no magical powers, was robbed by a fire mage and disfigured in his face. He also claimed that the spirits had chosen him to usher in a new era of balance in the world, forever ridding people of magic and making equality a reality. To demonstrate his abilities, Amon ordered his minions from Equality to bring in several captured members of the Triple Threat Triad, as well as Bolin, and began stripping them of their magical abilities one by one, starting with the fire magic of the infamous crime boss Lightning Zolt, whom he was able to defeat without resorting to attacks. However, before he could finally strip Bolin of his ability to rule the land, Korra distracted him by releasing a cloud of steam into the room, allowing Mako to save Bolin in the ensuing turmoil and escape. As the brothers and Korra rode off on the nagas, chased by several equalizers, Amon allowed them to leave, noting that the Avatar was perfect for spreading the word about his powerful new ability.

Even before the official meeting with Korra, Amon had made a strong impression on her with his actions during the Revelation rally. Without suspecting it, he tormented her with nightmares in which he deprived her of magical abilities. After the Council of the United Republic declared him the number one enemy of the people, he addressed his fellow equites by radio, using the Council's actions as proof of the oppressive nature of magicians. After City Councilman Tarlok and Avatar Korra led a task force that successfully raided the Equality Training Center, the Avatar publicly challenged Amon to a midnight duel on Aang Memorial Island without the involvement of the task force and Chi blockers. However, Amun did not appear on time and was not alone. Just as Korra was about to leave the island, several hidden "Ravenvenniks" dragged her to the island's museum, where she was quickly overpowered and immobilized with the help of chi-blockers. Amun stepped out of the shadows and stated that he would allow her to retain her magical abilities for the time being, warning that otherwise she would become a martyr and force the mages of all countries to unite against her "untimely death". However, he warned a terrified Korra that he would "save her for last" and eventually "destroy" her in their inevitable fight. With these words, he knocked her out and disappeared with his group.

On the eve of the pro-bending championship match, Amon demanded that the Council stop praising magic-wielding athletes by shutting down the Pro-Bending Arena and canceling the tournament, threatening "serious consequences" if they refused. The council voted to keep the arena open, which Amon said was in line with his plans for the matter. At the end of the championship match, he entered the arena and stripped the winners, Tano and the rest of the wolves of White Falls, of their magical powers. While his equity supporters were overpowering police officers in the stands who used metal magic with electrically stimulated gloves, the revolutionary leader gave a speech in which he denounced magicians, citing the example of deception on the part of the Wolfhounds as their typical mistreatment of those who did not possess magic. In addition, he stated that the fate of the same magic team would serve as a warning to all magicians who dared to oppose his goals. Later in his monologue, Amon mentioned that the current tyrannical regime based on magic would soon be replaced by a "just government advocating equality." To this end, he planned to eradicate magic from Republic City in order to eventually equalize the rights of the entire world. Announcing the start of the revolution, he destroyed the central playing field with an explosion and then left the arena through the roof in an airship. Climbing aboard the airship, he narrowly escaped Korra's attack with fire magic and disappeared.

A few days later, Amun, accompanied by a lieutenant and a group of equalizers, found Tarlok in his hut deep in the mountains surrounding Republic City. When Tarrlok realized it was time to "equalize" him, he defended himself by using blood magic against his attackers. Tarrloc easily overpowered his minions, but Amon, thanks to his skill in this field, was able to resist, which shocked Tarrlok. When asked who he was, referring to his ability to overcome the effects of blood magic, Amon simply replied that he was a "solution to the problem" and took Tarlok's magic. He decided to deal with the defeated Tarlok himself, fearing that people would find out that they were brothers. While he was busy with Tarrlock, he ordered his fellow tightrope walkers to retrieve Korra, who was locked in a metal box in the basement. He warned his men not to underestimate it and ordered the box to be electrified so that it would pass out when they opened it. However, as he was putting Tarlok into the truck they were driving in, Korra overpowered the rest of the tightrope walkers and jumped out of the van. Noticing Amun, she fired several ice spears in his direction. The leader of Equality dodged them and tried to catch up to Korra, but stopped as she quickly descended the snow-covered slopes of the mountain. When the lieutenant and the other Ravvenshchiks joined him to watch the Avatar leave, he chastised them for underestimating her.

Amon watched the start of the Battle of Republic City from an airship hovering over the metropolis. Eventually, his airship ended up near the police station, where Tenzin and the Avatar team were battling Equality's mechanical tanks. After Hiroshi Sato, who was aboard the airship with Amon, expressed his disgust as he watched his daughter fight alongside the mages, the revolutionary leader promised him that he would soon return his daughter to him. That evening, when the entire city fell, Amun arrived at the Aerial Temple Island, where his followers had brought the captive Lin Beifong. He offered to keep her ability to use magic in exchange for information about Korra's whereabouts, but when she defiantly refused, Amon stripped her of her magic.

After the natives left the island, Amon turned the Aerial Temple into his base of operations and ordered his followers to bring in all the captured mages to strip them of their powers. He took up residence in a tower on the island and used it as a makeshift prison for captive Tarlok. When he left the island in an airship to attend a rally in honor of the pro-equality victory in the Arena of Magic, Mako and Korra, disguised as pro-equality, infiltrated the island and learned its backstory and real name, Noatak. After capturing the city, Amun held a rally to celebrate his victory in the Arena of Magic. When he was retelling his made-up story from the Revelation rally, he was interrupted by Korra. She called him by his real name and exposed him as a water mage who used blood magic to rob people of their magic, rather than the alleged gift the spirits gave him. Korra continued by saying that Amon is the son of the former crime boss Yakon and the brother of Tarlok, which shocked the audience. Despite the Avatar revealing his family tree, Amon remained calm and confident and rejected Korra's accusations by removing his mask and showing the alleged scar on his face that the fire mage had left him. With the help of convincing makeup, Amon managed to draw the attention of the audience to himself and present Korra as a liar in the eyes of his supporters. As Avatar and Mako were about to leave, Amon urged them to stay, turning their attention to Tenzin and his children, whom he had captured. Wanting to "rid the world of the magic of the air," he suggested that they go down to the stage and try to stop it. Arrogantly turning his back on the duo to face Tenzin, he was forced to dodge Mako's lightning attack. Though he managed to avoid Mako's fiery blasts without difficulty, he was unable to dodge the air strikes of the freed Tenzin and was thrown out of the arena.

Amon quickly came to his senses and went after Korra and Mako, who were distracting him to give Tenzin and his family a chance to escape. He found them in one of the storerooms of the arena and easily immobilized them with blood magic, believing that they were alone there and no one would see them. However, after stripping Korra of her magic, Amon realized that his distraught lieutenant had seen everything. After his deputy accused him of betrayal, Amon had to defend himself, using blood magic to repel the attack and throw his lieutenant into a pile of wooden planks. While Amon was distracted, Mako managed to build up energy for a lightning attack and immobilize Amon in order to grab a severely weakened Korra and escape. However, Amon quickly caught up with them and once again used blood magic to stop them. He prepared to strip Mako of his magic, thinking that no one had ever been able to get the better of him, and that it would be almost a shame to take magic away from such a talented man. Distracted from the defeated and seemingly helpless Korra, Amon was caught off guard when she, seeing that Mako was in danger, suddenly unleashed his air magic and threw him away from the fire mage. As she unleashed a barrage of air attacks on him, throwing him to the end of the hallway, he briefly regained the advantage by casting blood magic. However, Korra managed to break free of his grip and she threw him out of the window into the harbor, after which he lost consciousness and began to drown rapidly. Unaware that the water had washed away his fake scar, he came to his senses underwater and instinctively used water magic to get out of the sea on a giant pillar of water and not drown. In this way, he revealed his abilities to the followers who were outside. Realizing that he had lost all of his influence and followers, Amon quickly disappeared underwater to escape the Mako's firestorm.

He managed to return to the Isle of the Aerial Temple, where he freed Tarrlok, expressing regret for what he had done and again suggesting that his younger brother leave with him so that they could start a new life together, as Tarlok was everything to him. The brothers bought a speedboat and set off from Republic City on a journey across the Mo-Ce Sea. Amon was glad to be with his family again, although he admitted that he had almost forgotten what the name he was born with and that he had when he still had a loving family sounded like. As he steered the boat, the defeated revolutionary shed tears when he heard his brother assure him that everything would be like the good old days, at which point Tarrlok, using one of the many electrified gloves stored in the boat, set fire to the fuel tank, wanting to put an end to what he called their sad story. As a result of the explosion, a large cloud of smoke was formed, which was visible from afar. Both died.

As a child, Noatak was caring and fair. He tried to treat everyone equally, and protected his younger brother Tarlok from his father's verbal attacks. However, after Noatak succumbed to the influence of blood magic and lived according to Yakone's expectations for several years, he became cold and distant. He became more restrained, oblivious to the suffering of those he subjected to blood magic, including his own brother. Noatak eventually became fully aware of his strength and independence, forcing his father to stop bullying Tarlok by demonstrating his power over him and calling him weak. Unlike Tarrlok, Amon enjoyed his abilities for blood magic. He idolized Avatar Aang's ability to remove a person's curve, believing that such a skill was even more powerful than blood magic. Over time, Amon developed his own technique to sever the Bender's connection to their element through blood magic, an action known to be reversible only through energy magic. Amun had an extreme aversion to magicians and considered magic to be "impurity" that needed to be "cleansed." This was due to his belief that magic brings only suffering and that magicians have an unnatural advantage over those who do not possess magic. [12] He was a staunch supporter of what he considered equality and affectionately referred to his followers as "brothers and sisters". [1] Despite being a warlock himself, Amon genuinely believed in his anti-magic and from childhood strived to be fair and treat everyone equally. Ultimately, it was his misguided quest for justice that led him to start the Revolution Against Magic. To "fix" the current situation with inequality, Amon resorted to intimidation tactics: he openly threatened magicians and reveled in the helplessness and terror of his enemies.

He fomented hatred against mages and sowed discord between mages and non-mages in order to gain support for his cause and turn the population against the magical establishment. He was ruthless and unwavering in his anti-magic beliefs, and was willing to kidnap and deprive of magical abilities those who were the last bearers of the magical arts, including helpless children. Amun was intelligent, restrained, and persuasive in his speeches. He was a talented orator who knew how to intrigue and intimidate both his allies and enemies. The cult of personality he created around himself was one of the main reasons for his popularity, as well as the fear he instilled in the entire mage community, including the Council of the United Republic. Despite his immense power, Amon often took a defensive or strategic stance, such as when he allowed Korra to escape a rally and talk about his abilities in the city. Later, Amon refused to accept Korra's challenge to a one-on-one fight and spared her, foreseeing that it would make her a martyr in the eyes of the mages and thereby unite them against him. Thanks to his proactivity and logical thinking, he was usually "one step ahead" of his enemies. Amon was a calculating and manipulative man who carried out his plans with great foresight and efficiency. He took extra steps to ensure the success of his plans, even going so far as to make himself a fake scar to confirm his fictional biography. Unlike Korra, who often tried to interact openly with him, Amon was cautious and avoided direct conflict unless he wanted to assert himself, as in the case of his organization's demonstration of power in the mage arena.

Unbending willpower and a high level of self-control made Amon a charismatic leader and a formidable opponent. Even in the midst of conflict, Amon kept his composure and quickly recovered from any setbacks. He demonstrated the same self-discipline in dealing with his allies: he always gave orders calmly and concisely, and only slightly rebuked them if they did not heed his warnings. [14] Only mortal danger could cause Amun, whose instincts of self-preservation led him to use water magic in front of his followers, to stumble. However, even in such a frustrated state, he quickly pulled himself together and used his strength and skills to escape.

Amun was a very powerful master of water magic. His brother Tarrlok noted that he had never met such a powerful mage as Amun. From a young age, Amon showed an extraordinary aptitude for water magic, and excelled in it under the guidance of his father Yakon, who constantly praised Amon for his skills and abilities, especially when compared to the less talented Tarrlock. Amon could leap out of a body of water on a giant pillar of water and race across the surface at speeds faster than Mako's fire explosions. Amun also quickly mastered the rare and forbidden art of blood control, becoming an exceptionally skilled and powerful mage at a young age. Under Jacon's guidance, he had perfected this technique so much that by the age of fourteen he could use it at any time, even without a full moon. At the same time, he mastered his father's unique ability to control blood on a mental level, which allowed him to control blood not only through physical movements, but also through concentration and willpower. He could use more common blood control techniques, such as body manipulation and torture, on multiple targets without expending much energy. He could lift targets into the air, throw them in different directions, immobilize and render them unconscious. Thanks to his skills in the field of psychic control, he was able to slightly alter the movements of his opponents and gain an advantage without revealing that he was proficient in magic. He also demonstrated the ability to resist blood magic effortlessly, even when fighting Tarrlok, who possessed this skill at the same level.

Although he was fascinated by this skill, he wanted more to have the ability to deprive people of magic, as Avatar Aang had done to his father with energy magic. In the end, he succeeded: he used his mastery of blood magic to "break" a person's connection with magic by blocking their active qi channels, and thus achieved the same result as with energy magic. No medical intervention has been able to reverse this effect, and not even Katara, a world-renowned healer and specialist in blood magic, has been able to do anything. The only known way to remove the blockade of Amun's magic is to use energy magic, as the Avatars Aang and Korra did. If an item has not been unlocked (such as Korra's dormant air magic), it will not be locked. Amun in many ways embodied versatility. He concealed his abilities for magic, mastering the techniques of hand-to-hand combat and the art of blocking qi. His skill was enough to defeat even the most powerful magicians. He also displayed agility and agility, which allowed him to maneuver gracefully and dodge mage attacks even at close range with ease. [1] He also supplemented his hand-to-hand combat skills with basic blood control techniques to better defend and deflect enemy attacks. In addition to his combat skills, Amon possessed incredible physical stamina, which allowed him to recover from the lightning bolts fired by Mako at point-blank range in a matter of seconds and immobilize him with blood control. In addition to his combat skills, Amon had an outstanding intellect and charisma, which made him a skilled manipulator. He skillfully passed off his blood control technique, with the help of which he deprived people of the gift, as a mystical weapon given to him by spirits. He managed to maintain this image even in the heat of battle.

As a talented political strategist, he accurately foresaw that if he stripped the Avatar of his magic too soon, it would only lead to Korra becoming a martyr and mages around the world uniting against his anti-magic agenda. He took his masquerade to such an absurdity that, in addition to wearing a mask, he even wore makeup to cover a large scar on his face and lend credence to his made-up story of being mutilated by a fire mage, all done to increase hatred of mages and sympathy for his cause. As demonstrated by the numerous attacks orchestrated by Equality, Amon was a skilled strategist and tactician, able to outperform other organized forces such as the Metalband police and the Joint Forces armada. He was also well versed in terrorist tactics: he manipulated the hatred of people with no magical abilities and instilled fear in magicians, always seeking a psychological advantage over opponents and constantly intimidating his many enemies.

The events take place before the Attack on the Pro-bending Arena, but after the encounter with Avatar Korra. Amon doesn't reveal his waterbending or bloodbending to his people, and no one knows he's a bender either. He hides it skillfully.

As a child, Amon had darker skin, similar to Katara's, but as an adult, his skin became noticeably lighter. His real name is Noatak. He is 40 years old and stands 188 cm tall.