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He was a high-ranking member (Grand Lotus) of the international secret society known as the Order of the White Lotus. Iroh was believed to have killed off the last of the world's dragons, which along with his ability to breathe fire earned him the title 'The Dragon of the West' but in actuality he was secretly the pupil of the last two dragons, Ran and Shao, and thus learned from them to drive his firebending powers from vitality rather than from rage as most of his contemporary firebenders did Iroh lied about killing the last of the dragons to bring an end to the Fire Nation tradition of dragon hunts. Ozai ascended to the position of Fire Lord: although the events immediately following Azulon's secret murder are never depicted in flashbacks, it seems that his death was explained as the result of natural causes and that the still-mourning Iroh had no interest in challenging his brother for control of the nation, instead acquiescing to Ozai's investiture as Fire Lord and entering a permanent semi-retirement from state affairs. Instead, Ozai conspired with his wife, Princess Ursa, to assassinate Azulon and seize the leadership while Iroh was in mourning and disinterested in state affairs with the life of her son on the line, Ursa did not feel she could refuse and assisted Ozai in a successful poisoning of Azulon, accepting banishment for her role. However, Azulon was incensed at this lack of respect for Iroh's position and his loss and ordered Ozai to kill his own son, Prince Zuko, as an act of atonement. Ozai, the far more opportunistic and ambitious of the brothers, attempted to convince their father that, owing to Iroh's shameful defeat, decreased standing in the nation, and lack of heirs, Ozai ought to be made heir to the leadership of the Fire Nation. Iroh had a vision early in life that he would be the one to capture the city, but the death of his only son broke his desire to continue in the effort having always been driven more by a sense of duty than personal ambition, Iroh abandoned the siege.

Prior to the events in The Last Airbender, Iroh was the firstborn son of Fire Lord Azulon, but Azulon was succeeded by his second son, Ozai, following Iroh's retreat from public affairs after his son Lu Ten died in the siege of the Earth Kingdom's capital Ba Sing Se, which had held against numerous successive Fire Nation efforts at capture during the duration of the Hundred Year War. The episode was dedicated 'In Honor of Mako', who had died some months before the episode aired. In the episode ' The Tales of Ba Sing Se', Iroh's name was written as и‰ѕжґ› ( aГ¬ lГ№o).

During the narrative of the series, he accompanies his exiled nephew Zuko on his quest to capture the series's protagonist Aang to restore the young prince's honor and birthright Iroh acts as a mentor who seeks to help his nephew become a better person than his father. He is the elder brother of Fire Lord Ozai, the ruler of the Fire Nation and leader of its campaign to conquer the other three nations. Iroh is a very powerful firebender-i.e., he has the power to telekinetically create and manipulate fire-and a retired general of the Fire Nation.

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Created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the character was voiced by Mako in the first two seasons and, due to Mako's death, by Greg Baldwin in the third season and the sequel series The Legend of Korra. Uncle Iroh ( Chinese: и‰ѕжґ› pinyin: AГ¬ LuГІ), also referred to as General Iroh, is a fictional character in Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. For other uses of a similar name, see Iro (disambiguation).

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