Talk:Energybending/@comment-64.84.97.2-20120422065439

It could be energybending or a new way of permenatly blocking chi. But wasn't it said somewhere in ATLA that the spirits bestowed bending powers. If a child was born the spirits would bestow bending powers or not. They didn't get bending directly from the dragons, moles, bison, and moon, but learned how to use bending watching them. As for energybending it is simply discipline and mastering ones will. What happened is that the ancient people discovered they could master and force their will on someone else. Thats energybending. It's not an avatar only thing. It may look like that because avatar Aang was the only one who has done it in the last 200+ years. But it's a who ever could understand how to do it thing. The knowledge of it was probably almost completely lost once people started bending the elements.