Talk:Bending Arts/@comment-98.221.240.158-20110223225022

A lot of people are asking what determines whether or not you can bend and what element you can bend. Here's what I think: whether or not you can bend is all about chance. If you're lucky, you can bend (though some people might not see it as luck). Now the thing that determines what element you can bend is your ancestry. If you are born to water tribe parents, and if you are able to bend, you are a waterbender.

I also saw a question about why the avatar can bend. The avatar is the manifestation of the planet in human form. It is capable of bending all four elements because it needs to keep balance in the world between the four nations. It would be kind of hard to keep balance in the world if you could bend only one element.