>A bit of post-commentary Googling indicates the general she mentioned,
>Hao, seems to feature in an Aang era story post the main series,
>though the summary of that doesn't fully match up to what we do know
>about her past (admittedly not a whole lot, but I'm still guessing it
>served as inspiration a bit more than groundwork.)

Oh, I just noticed this. Different guy. It's a relatively common name.

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