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This article is about the location. For the rescue mission, see Rescue in Pohuai Stronghold.

<infobox theme-source="nation"> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Pohuai Stronghold</default></title> <group> <header>Physical information</header> <label>Location</label> </group> <group> <header>Government</header> <label>Position</label> <label>Capital</label> <label>Form of government</label> <label>Head of state</label> <label>Religious authority</label> <label>Currency</label> <label>Ruler</label> <label>Owner</label> <label>Leader</label> <label>Administrator</label> <label>First appearance</label> <label>Last appearance</label> </group> <group> <header>Location on map</header> </group> <header>Image gallery (0)</header> </infobox> Pohuai Stronghold, previously known as the Pohuai Depot, was a Fire Nation fortress located in the western Earth Kingdom near the ruins of Taku. The base was commanded by Colonel Shinu during the last years of the Hundred Year War and housed the legendary Yuyan Archers.

History

Initially, the Pohuai Depot was an important fortress for the military of the Earth Kingdom. It housed the Earth Monarch's bodyguards, the Brocade Guards. A security detail of Brocade Guards from the Pohuai Depot was scheduled to come to Taku as an Earth Kingdom security detail for the convocation between the world leaders and zongdus in year 17 of the era of Yangchen.

By 296 BG, Pohuai's sage, Ryong, was one of the political rivals of the Earth Kingdom's leading politician Jianzhu. He subsequently joined a plot by Chamberlain Hui to disempower Jianzhu, but the conspiracy failed and Ryong was murdered.

After the Hundred Year War's outbreak, the Fire Nation constructed Pohuai Stronghold as a major military hub.

During his search for the Avatar, Zhao, a Commander at the time, traveled to the Pohuai Stronghold to request the use of the Yuyan Archers in capturing Aang. At first, Colonel Shinu denied his request, calling Zhao's goal nothing but a vanity project, but when the commander was promoted to admiral status, Zhao ordered Shinu to release the archers to his cause. The archers quickly tracked down Aang while he was searching for a cure to a fever that Sokka and Katara had contracted. After capturing him, they detained Aang in the stronghold's prison, where Zhao taunted him and proclaimed victory before the fortress' defenders. However, this victory was short-lived as a mysterious masked bandit known as the Blue Spirit infiltrated the fortress and rescued Aang from Zhao's capture. During the escape, the masked man was knocked unconscious by an archer. Aang managed to escape with the Blue Spirit, leaving Zhao infuriated.

Layout

The fortress was a structure made up of multiple stone walls surrounding a large pagoda tower at the center of the base. The walls were coated with iron to protect it from earthbenders. The building housed its own prisons and was a major material depot for the Fire Army. This massive metal structure was built by the Fire Nation military as a troop and supply hub where soldiers and firebenders trained before they were deployed into battle. Supplies were moved from the stronghold over thousands of miles of rail lines to the Fire Nation Army assembling at the outskirts of Ba Sing Se.

Trivia

• Some of the firebenders from the stronghold garrison had no faceplates.
• The territory where the stronghold was located later became part of the United Republic of Nations.

See also

• Rescue in Pohuai Stronghold