Talk:Amon/@comment-174.107.239.126-20120422075258/@comment-83.82.86.117-20120422092332

The avatar has to be a waterbender, seeing the cosmic cycle.

Not that your theory is impossible though, seeing how Aang nicely nearly screwed up Avatar state due to Azula, it's possible the energybending inherited to a random guy, although one thing is off - Amon is probably 30, 40 years old, whereas Korra (born shortly after Aang's death) is about 16 to 20; he couldn't have inherited anything, but Aang could have given him those powers (energybending) due to naïve.

Also, the point about firebenders; do recall that until ~70 years before the events of Korra's story, the fire nation was reigning, it's very well possible some firebenders kept doing this oppression.