Talk:Bending arts/@comment-75.64.104.4-20111123145943

Some people have asked why people can't just learn bending anymore since that's what the first benders did so I have a theory that might explain it (though I could be totally wrong) when the four nations were forming and the people were being divided people probably still know about and practiced energybending. As their environments changed they adapted by using energybending to learn how to bend one of the four elements. Over time knowledge of energybending was lost which only left people to be able to bend the elements through some combination of genetics and spirituality (with the exception of the Air Nomads who were all benders) and since only aang know about and was probably the only human left capable of energybending no one else can use it to learn a bending art.