Talk:Energybending/@comment-3002085-20100904115446/@comment-3075159-20100925071107

Doesn't the lionturtle say something like "Once, everyone used (whatever he calls energybending; it's never actually referred to as energybending in-series, is it?) Then, it slowly gave way to the elemental bending arts."

If I'm remembering correctly, this would mean that everyone in the ancient Avatar world-spirits and humans-would have known how to energybend, making it non-Avatar exclusive. And lionturtles live for 10s of thousands of years, presumably, so it's likely the one that taught Aang was around during that time.

Energybending could have easily been manipulated to become firebending--both are reliant on the bender's spirit.