Talk:Firebending/@comment-99.240.12.41-20100908183939/@comment-3023837-20100908225152

Only fire benders can create their element.

So air nomads can't make steam... And waterbenders does not control temperature as everyone thinks.

In the Return to Omashu Katara traps Mai's Arm in ice and Ty lee hits Katara's pressure points and then the ice in Mai's arm turns into water again.

If you think about it, Katara just hardened the watrer, she never turned water into ice cuz only fire benders can control temperature, and only to make the place hotter.

Well, if they re-direct the heat they can cool the area.

For all that, that's why earthbenders can't make lava or control it because is a mix between fire and earthbending. Tha's what i've read.