Talk:Amon/@comment-203.213.76.88-20120422104554

I think that Amon was lying and that Amon himself is a bender, as the Lion Turtle said "In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements, but the energy within ourselves ..." which suggests that is developed into the bending of the Elements, therefore logically those that had the ability to bend the energy became the benders. So then only a bender could bend the energy to take away anothers bending.

So my theory is that Amon just craves power and has developed this cult of anti-benders in order to rid the world of benders, leaving him as the most powerful person, as he will be the only one left that can bend one of the four elements. Which means that the story he told about his family being killed by a bender is probably a lie.