Is this the central plot question of the series?
If you must know what was happening some 40 odd years ago, Tumblr user and Korra fan BirdBrainBlue has pieced together an explanation of The Blood Bending Trial of Yakone, the leader of the Red Monsoons, one of Republic City’s triad gangs.
They think they can hold Yakone’s trial during the day because blood bending requires the moon, but…well, the flashbacks show how that goes wrong.
And why haven’t we seen Katara?
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Yakone
The language of origin is Ahtna Athabascan, which really isn’t Eskimo (Inuit which is up on the north slope versus the Interior tribes of Ahtna). Literally it means “red aurora,” as a metaphor it can mean blood spray on the snow