Talk:Bending Arts/@comment-3219139-20101119091553/@comment-3068994-20101119155751

I removed two of your duplicate posts - please be careful to hit post comment just once when responding. =]

No. It is impossible for a child to be born capable of more than one bending discipline. If that were the case, there would be a redundancy and lack of need for the Avatar. It is simply that the child can pick up one element capability, or even neither. I believe their children could either be a waterbender or an airbender, or neither - but not both. And yes, I can think of NO case where interracial relationships took place - outside of Sokka & Suki, but we do not know they wed yet, though it is possible and probable.

And when Tenzin has a child; if it's with another waterbender/etc, who knows? The air nomad gene could become recessive, so that decades later their descendants could be a firebender marries a firebender and gives birth to an airbender? LOL

Nah, I don't rightly know. Hopefully Bryke will explain this in the coming series. What they have said so far, is that is NOT strictly genetic, there's more of a spiritual link involved rather than a strict "only this bloodline can have benders, the rest of ya'll tough luck". However, they did not give a full description of what it is, just that "there is a lot involved" making it complicated.

End of rant: 1 element = 1 person. No other possibility in the Avatar world has been displayed.