The project faced resistance by Southern nationalists under Gilak who eventually revealed that Maliq had secretly continued the colonization efforts without Malina's consent.
She abandoned her colonization plans, and instead focused all her energy at improving the Southern Water Tribe's standards of living as well as international status. While at the South Pole, Malina fell in love with the local Head Chieftain Hakoda, and came to greatly respect the Southerners.
In secret, she and her brother had been tasked with colonizing the area, as the Northern Water Tribe believed the Southern Tribe incapable of handling important natural resources. After the end of the Hundred Year War, she moved from the Earth Kingdom, where she had spent most of her early life, to the Southern Water Tribe, where, with her brother's help, she oversaw the modernization of the buildings in the tribal capital of Wolf Cove, as part of the Southern Reconstruction Project. North and South Part Three Image gallery (15) Malina was a waterbender, engineer, and architect from the Northern Water Tribe as well as the sister of Maliq.
