Talk:Energybending/@comment-173.93.234.66-20120615025939/@comment-1705651-20120615155325

In fact, according to the Lion Turtle energybending was in use long before the four bending arts and the avatar himself. That sentence from the Lion Turtle is enough to prove it is not an skill exclusive to avatars, but people tend to misinterpret Tenzin's statement about energybending.

When he said only the avatar could do that he most likely meant to say the knowledge of energybending is lost in history and only Aang happened to know it. Another possibility is that Tenzin is just plain misinsformed.

If energybending was in fact a skill exclusive to avatars it would be a direct contradiction to what the Lion Turtle said about the use of energybending in the era before the avatar.