[She wonders why Katara asked that. she decides to dismiss that. Should she somehow chop something? What should she be chopping?]

He was [is? was, whatever] the councilman from the the Northern Water Tribe and the Chairman of the council. He's been a pretty ambitious politician, but he also took the conflict with the Equalists too far. [...] It didn't seem like it at first, he was just aggressive. He created a taskforce to hunt down Equalist strongholds, and Korra jointed it for a while. But... [...Nah let's skip where Korra's from] After Chief Bei Fong resigned [was tricked, more like] a man named Saikhan took over, and he was allies with Tarlokk. The two of the instituted a curfew for non-benders, and any non-benders who had ties to the Equalists were arrested too.

[She's going to... pause here]