Talk:Avatar/@comment-201.42.181.113-20121031033351/@comment-24.192.131.225-20121101011740

no, the person is not a host for the spirit, but the current version of the spirit. the past avatars are esentially memories of the current one. check out the talk page - great explanation towards the bottom. basically, if you were the avatar, your one year old self would be the first avatar, your two year old self the second avatar, ect. The memories from that year (lifetime) would kinda have their own consciousness, but they&apos;re not seperate beings. the only debate about how the first avatar was born is did he/she live in the spirit world before incarnating, or was the first avatar the first time the spirit existed. There&apos;s no evidence on this either way, so there&apos;s no way to tell and any argument is pointless. hopefully this will be cleared up in those promised special episodes of korra book 2 aboutthe avatar lineage.