Talk:Amon/@comment-58.96.72.137-20111101114427

Zuko's mother may be related to this. She is the only character in The last Airbender who is shrouded in mystery, and in the final episode Zuko goes to Ozai's cell and asks him where she is, with no response shown. So it would make sense for this series to explain what happened to her. It is quite possible she re-married, and had a child who became spiteful toward his step-siblings, who are both skilled firebenders. As it was firebending in combination with Sozin's Comet that allowed the fire nation to cause such devastation in the world, it would make sense for this child to hate bending, and decide that no one person should possess such power: that bending will ineviatbely result in more global destruction. My theory is tha Hamon is Ursa's child, and he probably blames his great grandfather Roku for failing to prevent the 100 year war, as well as Aang for being frozen all those years and doing nothing. Although the existence of benders is not an issue while the Avatar actively maintains world peace, Roku, Aang, Kuruk and most likely avatars have failed to live up to this role, so Amon see's the destruction of all benders as the only way to ensure the world is never plunged into such turmoil ever again. Amon being Ursa's child(or grandchild) is just a theory, but I'm pretty confident that the Equalists are motivated by the notion that bending is too dangerous a power for anyone to possess, and will only cause more suffering then it prevents.