Talk:Bending arts/@comment-201.42.190.193-20120318125254/@comment-69.23.36.6-20120408235210

Bending has no ties to genectics. It IS purely spiritual. However, if one is born to a Fire Nation family but rejects the spiritual teachings of the Fire Nation and learns the teachings of the Water Nation, than i believe he will still be a firebender, but it will be based off waterbending principles. I believe he would sill be a firebender because his family's spiritual ties still lie with the Fire Nation teachings. Now should he/she take a husband/wife and have children raised purely on Water Tribe teachings than there is a small chance that a child would be a waterbender. I believe this chance increases as the generations move on because the new family branch is moving from Fire teachings to Water teachings. No genectics is involved; it is the change in spirituality.