Talk:Amon/@comment-161.45.165.241-20120405160835/@comment-4989471-20120405183621

I personally don't think Lightning bending was restricted to the Royal family at least intentionally. We know one requires calm and inner peace to achieve it, but the vast majoity of Firebenders for over 100 years were using firebending fueled by rage, hatred and passion, so by the very nature of firebending during that time, only a few people were capable of achieving the mind set need to do it. Additonaly many of them were fighting a war, and seeing people die, that also likly made it hard to achive the inner peace nessecary to generate lighting.

Iroh, and enlightended man was able to, Ozai, who for all in moral short comings, was likly completly at peace with himself, and Finally Azula, who's sociopathic tendancies may of contributed to her cool and calm nature depsote the violent and dangerous world she lived it.