Talk:Air Nomad Genocide/@comment-24.28.17.246-20100812052538/@comment-80.187.96.199-20100821194656

the question is where do the air-benders come from?

in the series it is said that the air nomades only lived in the 3 temples. when i watched it i asked myself can this be all? or did the air nomades recruite their pupil from other nations when they recognized gifted children? aang for example had parents but was send to the air nomade temple to be teached wind bending. the hole system resembles the chinese shaolin monks in our world. its nerver cleary explained in the series if children inherit the bending power or bending is some sort of gift. since both of kataras parents werent waterbender i doubt its inherited from your ancestors. so it would be possible that aang could start over with new air bender pupils from all over the world, if my theory is correct.

even if im wrong it its stated that in the legend of korra (the avatar after aang where the story will take place 75 years later) there is at least another air bender the son of aang and katara, maybe there are even more. i guess the son of them is only a air bender because they needed another one, even though he could be a water bender.

the problem here is its never explained why only the avatar can master more then one bending, how one obtain bending powers, what happens with children if their parents are benders of different types.