Bending Arts

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BENDING INFO | Bending is a big part of the Avatar world. There are four known bending arts; four of them bend a specific physical element. The four elemental bending arts are based on the four classical elements; water, earth, fire, and air, and each is manipulated through certain martial art styles which are reminiscent of the qualities of the element itself. Each element is also associated with a particular nation in the world; the Water Tribe corresponds with waterbending, the Earth Kingdom with earthbending, the Fire Nation with firebending, and the Air Nomads with airbending. Though each nation is affiliated to a specific bending art, not all citizens from any nation, with the exception of the Air Nomads, are born with the ability to bend an element. It is unclear how the ability to bend is distributed among the population or how closely it is linked to heredity; even among identical twins it is possible for one to be a bender and the other not. In the case of mixed marriages, the children may be benders of either element if they are benders at all. Earth Bending EARTH | Earthbending, one of the four elemental bending arts, is the geokinetic ability to manipulate earth and rock in all their various forms. It is utilized by people of the Earth Kingdom and the United Republic. Earth is the element of substance, making earthbenders and their people diverse, strong, persistent, and enduring. SAND | Because sand is sediment which travels in flows, the bending style resembles air and waterbending more than earthbending. It is implied that most, if not all, earthbenders are capable of easily bending sand, but because of the loose shifty nature of sand it is not an easy transition for the average earthbender. METAL |Metalbending is a special set of techniques within earthbending which allows an earthbender to indirectly bend processed metals by bending the trace amounts of regular earth in them, much as they would bend regular earth. Fire Bending FIRE | Firebending, one of the four elemental bending arts, is the pyrokinetic ability to control fire. It is unique among the bending arts, as it is the only one in which the performer can spontaneously generate the element. While the first human firebenders were the Sun Warriors, it has since spread to the people of the Fire Nation, and the United Republic. LIGHTNING | Certain powerful firebenders are able to generate and manipulate lightning by separating the yin and yang energies. Lightning, also known as "the cold-blooded fire", is considered the most powerful firebending technique, and its use was available only to a select few firebending prodigies and masters. However, seventy years later, the art has evolved to a well-known skill and is known by enough people to make lightning generation a decently-paid job at a power plant in Republic City. HEAT | Some of the more powerful firebenders developed the ability to absorb heat through one hand and pass it through their bodies, expelling the heat out of their other palm. This is a mostly defensive skill, but can be used to great effect. There are tales of a firebender cooling a volcano to stop its eruption using this very technique. Water Bending WATER | Waterbending is a hydrokinetic form used by the Water Tribes. It is the control of water and it's many forms. The moon is a source of power for waterbenders. Unlike all the other styles of bending, waterbending was not learned from an animal. HEAL | The most commonplace specialization for waterbending is the practice of healing. Healers use the water as a catalyst to heal the injured through indirect means. Healing has bounds, however. Healing is ineffective on internal physical wounds or birth complications. Healers can, for the most part, only help physical wounds, though there have been cases of mental illness being resolved due to a healer. PLANT | A more rare sub skill that few waterbenders possess is plantbending. Plantbending works by bending highly saturated plants. Some waterbenders only use these skills to extract the water, but others embrace the plants and use them in combat through one way or another. Air Bending AIR | The bending art of the Air Nomads. Airbending is an aerokinetic art form that controls and manipulates the currents of air. The first airbenders learned the art from the flying bison. SOUND | Some Air Nomads adore music so much that they incorporated it into their bending arts. They learned how to bend the sounds from musical instruments for their own means. Some use it for defense, some use it for offense. It fills any role.

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