Talk:Avatar/@comment-132.216.19.203-20101026134055/@comment-3292710-20101224032543

There's another option you might consider: the avatar cycle may simply skip over the air nomads and go straight to the water tribes.

Think about it: the avatar rotates among the 4 nations to maintain a balance and keep any one nation from becoming too powerful. With the air nomads gone, there is no need for the avatar cycle to reincarnate as an airbender to maintain the balance.