Talk:History of the World of Avatar/@comment-75.198.78.202-20101107174849

the second paragraph suggests that humans were energybenders in the time before the avatar. i don't think there is any evidence for this in the show. humans learned element bending from animal originals, before which, as i interpret, humans had no bending abilities at all. also, they were probably already split into four main tribes when they learned bending, each tribe learning from an animal original that was endemic to its region.