Talk:Energybending/@comment-69.196.167.16-20120329170626

Enerybending can be used to do almost anything really. You have the ability to manipulate pure energy itself!

I also believe that all benders have the ability of energybending as long as they are thought. Energybending doesn't require you to learn all the other elements because it doesn't belong to any specific element, it is within each and everyone of us, it is pure energy.

Now the problem is who will teach? The knowledge has been lost. And if it is learned, it is extremely dangerous because you're dealing with life energy. That is why only the Avatar and perhaps very select few people can probably energybend without losing or corrupting their own life energy.

With that said it might be even possible to live forever with energybending, you can manipulate life energy, but you'll have to take someone else's life energy in order to do that and you're own life energy will be corrupted since its no longer pure. Exchange life for another life, you can't create the life energy, you have to take it from a pre-existing one.