Talk:Avatar/@comment-3467624-20130208010410/@comment-3005995-20130208015040

I'm assuming that the spiritual leaders of each nation (Fire Sages, etc) are able to tell when an Avatar has died; if we assume they could only tell when the Avatar goes into the Avatar state (like how the statue's eyes glow when Aang went into the Avatar State), Sozin would have possibly waited 16+ years to tell if the Water Avatar was born, but in his story (The Avatar and the Firelord) he seemed to immidiately know that the Avatar had eluded him. By that logic, the only assumption I can come to is that the Sages (and everyone else) are at the very least able to tell when an Avatar dies and/or is reborn.