Talk:Avatar/@comment-190.92.50.109-20120624225352/@comment-5192864-20120626233438

You can just take Roku as an example. When he was told that he was the Avatar when he came of age, everybody except the Fire Sages, and he himself were all surprised. It strongly implied that Roku had neither entered the Avatar state nor contacted the spirit world (or contacted but totally forgotten) before 16. Thus it may just be normal that an Avatar have problems contacting the Spiritual self as a young Avatar. Aang is a very special case, well, probably because as an Air Nomad, he was spiritual above average, or because the broken war forced him to manifest it when he was so young.