Is it possible to element bend

Mars is your motivation, and physical energy. Just a theory but I thought it was interesting since since bending is partially based on personality and everyone is born under a sign and has their own ways of thinking.

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Earthbenders were taught by the badgermoles. Firebenders were taught by the dragons. Airbenders were taught by the skybison. Improve this question. Origami Robot. Origami Robot Origami Robot 3, 2 2 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Based on Tarrlok's parentage, and his bending capabilities, it seems bending ability and power is in large part genetic.

What about the Avatar? The Avatar is reborn in a cycle. This means, that whatever controls the type of bending one will recieve, knows exactly what a person will recieve, or else the line of Avatars would be alot less rythmic to say the least.

Also, the moments where we saw multiple Avatars together in the series, portrayed them as looking as stereotypical representatives of their respective culture. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. DavRob60 DavRob60 Ancestry is an interesting aspect that I had not considered.

While I don't necessarily disagree, do you have any sources that support a non-bender being unable to ever learn bending?

Also think about the way the south tribe's waterbender where hunted and why Katara's mother scarified herself; Why hunting them if anyone could learn waterbending? Also note that Kanna Katara's grandmother was not a waterbender. I meant is there any evidence that it is impossible for those people to learn bending? Five bending arts? GabeWillard the 5th is Energybending — DavRob Show 4 more comments.

Elemental bending is linked to: An as yet undisclosed genetic disposition linked to the various kingdoms. Each of the kingdoms has a predisposition for each element. Each claims to have been taught or influenced by a natural phenomenon or animal patron; fire by the dragons, Earth by the badgermoles, Air by the skybison and Water by the moon. No one may bend an element not native to a land of one of their parents.

Cultural technique even within an element may take precedence and influence how an element is controlled. An Earthbender of Ba Sing Se and an sandbender of the Earth Kingdom deserts are both Earthbenders but each deals with their element based on the training of their respective cultures. Consistency and training; a bender may have the aptitude for bending but without training and discipline may never develop any significant ability. Consider Kitara before she left the Water Tribe.

She was able to bend but it was uncontrolled and the results unpredictable. A personality profile does seem to affect how easily or difficult it is for a bender to master their element.

If their personality runs contrary to their element's nature, they may have greater affinity or difficulty mastering it. Consider Aang and Earthbending, it was completely foreign to his personality. With discipline, subsets of that element can be controlled as well; fire can bend lightning, Earth could bend metal, Water could bend blood or perform healing. Air does not appear to have a subset skill. There is the lost art of energybending of which there are no living beings capable of performing it.

The last known energybender was Aang who was taught by the lion-turtle. Aside from the Avatar, who is the living spirit of the world, no one has displayed a propensity or capability to bend more than one element at a time. Indeed this is the hallmark of the Avatar and the indicator of their reincarnation after death.

Airbending is linked to Ba Gua Kung Fu; whose techniques are focused on circular motions and redirecting the energy of the opponent back upon themselves. Waterbending is linked to Tai Chi Chuan and is focused on feeling the flow of an enemy's fighting style and redirect that energy away from the martial artist.

Earthbending is linked to Hung Gar though there are others , Earth fighters focus on strength, power and resistance in their fighting technique. They are durable and strong fighters physically overpowering their enemies. They are also known for their ability to cause collateral damage to the environment. Firebenders are linked to Northern Style Kung Fu, which offers strong aggressive and defensive capabilities and is one of the most well balanced in terms of offense and defensive techniques.

From the Avatar Wikia article on Bending Arts : Though each nation is affiliated to a specific bending art, not all from any nation, with the exception of the Air Nomads, are born with the ability to bend.

Rationales are not always listed but some things are clearly defined: From page one of the Rules: A bender's powers cannot extend beyond his native element. Only the Avatar can master all four elements Bending is the physicial manipulation of the elements and is defined by the skill, strength and stamina of the practitioner.

The ability to bend is something you are born with. And not everyone in a nation is a bender. Only a small percentage of each population is a bender. Benders represent only small percentage of all people in the world. They may be born to parents of benders or they may be born to parents with no powers.

A Bender's skill level determines the range of his attack A Bender's elemental powers never extend beyond their immediate area. Thaddeus Howze Thaddeus Howze k 22 22 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I think you meant that last section for a different question.

I fail to see how any of it addresses "What determines a bender's element? We can make any suppositions we like but the IP Bible says there is no rationale at all. But the rules you quote from the IP bible don't say that at all, unless I'm not seeing "8. Nothing determines a bender's element. My point Gabe, is looking at the document in toto, we are not given any information about what determines a Bender element.

Other than the area of origin of the parents, we are given no information about how or why a person is able to become a Bender, what they will be able to bend or why they get or don't get the power at all. We are rationalizing something that even the creators haven't bothered to discuss in their own IP Bible. So what determines the the character's ability? The Writer who makes the decision!

It's not the whole IP bible, however. Per the page it's posted on: " I just do not see that conclusion from what evidence we have.

The bible says that there is no cause for an individual's ability to bend or not. It doesn't say anything about what determine's a bender's someone who has bending ability, which we do not know the cause of specific element. Community Bot 1. What about an open minded person such as Iroh? We already know he adapted waterbending techniques to create a method for redirecting lightning. That's an exceptionally good point. OrigamiRobot - I believe lightning-bending is effectively just an advanced and rarely mastered form of fire-bending.

Similarly, I recall that Toph taught herself metal-bending and Katara was able to master blood-bending. We may never know what the advanced level for air-bending would be, since the Airbenders are effectively extinct. Iszi my roomate came up with a somewhat interesting idea for that: vacuum bending.

While only the Avatar can learn to master all four elements, with Aang being the first Avatar to utilize the fifth form known as Energybending, certain humans can develop the ability to bend one of the four elements through their own flow of chi or energy within the body. The Avatar sequel series The Legend of Korra reveals that the ability of bending was initially bestowed upon humans during the era of Raava by lion turtles, ancient spiritual beings who had a connection to one specific element and were so large that they could carry an entire city on the back of their shells.

If a human wished to travel through the Spirit Wilds, regions of the mortal world inhabited by spirits, humans would approach the lion turtles to be granted the ability of bending to protect themselves against the spirits. When the spirits returned to the Spirit World and Avatar Wan closed the portals to their realm, the lion turtles refused to grant the power of bending to humans now that the spirits were gone and retreated to uninhabited regions on Earth.

Replacing the lion turtles as the protector of the mortal world, the Avatar then took over as the maintainer of peace and the rest of humankind learned to bend by observing animals instead. Throughout Avatar: The Last Airbende r, animals serve an integral role as companions, transportation, and spiritual beings.

Many animals within the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise are fictional hybrids of two separate animals, which includes some of the original benders. Using bending to interact with their environment, animals such as dragons, badgermoles, sky bison, and the koi fish Tui were the original bending masters whom humans observed and thus learned to bend from their example.

The Ancient Sun Warriors were the first civilization to learn Firebending from the original masters: the dragons. Waterbending is sadly out of our reach. The ability to manipulate fluid water is well beyond us. The ability to turn water to ice and vice versa requires a lot of energy - a machine that can do it in the split second that waterbenders take is hard enough, forget about keeping it small enough to keep it on one's person.

Oobleck, a non-newtonian liquid, becomes hard when agitated. In theory, you could use a pump and tiny micro-bots in an oobleck mixture to move a liquid and make it stationary for some time.

This could come close to water turning to ice. Honestly, non-newtonian liquids aren't that well understood. Perhaps new research could help us in this one. Humanities fascination with fire culminated into quite a hold over it. From flame throwers to fireworks, there's quite a bit you can do. But I'm guessing you want to actually control fire in your hand. One way would be cotton balls on fire. It seems weird, but is quite cool - Fireball that can hold! Earth bending would be quite hard.

The ability to lift loads in thin air is quite beyond us but earth quakes and Toph's seismic sense are possible. Scientists: Oil, gas drilling causing earthquakes - a case in which humans have caused earthquakes [ allegedly at least - this result although it's pretty convincing to me may be later proved as wrong ]. Toph's seismic sense would have to be quite sensitive. It's well within our perception to sense a man stomping on the ground, but seeing insects and leaves move is quite another.