Talk:Air Nomads/@comment-24.59.27.66-20100808015157/@comment-186.45.70.236-20100820151752

Thats a really interesting theory. I hope they can clear this up in the next series because your right that genetics are irrelevant in this case. But what im not so sure about, if your theory is correct, that anyone who becomes very spiritual (but is not the avatar) can bend an element not native to themself and what would refrain them from having the capabilities of bending all the elements? I believe that somewhere genes and ancestry comes into play, however the universe decides to give a person the ability to bend. Because even though people taught themselves bending, it was a long long time before now, its like something people are born with. Almost like its in their bloodline or something, generation after generation, its within them. So genealogy and ancestry have a part to play but i think also so could spirituality, just like the bending ancestors.