The History Of The Original Benders (Feat.  

The Amagi oh wow you posted this at the same time as avatar critic

Please do 15 earth kingdom weapons

I didn’t even get past the into and I clicked the link. I thought it was gonna be a rick-roll and I’m glad it wasn’t.

Please do history of the sandbenders.

So here’s a question I have that’s been on my mind since LOK came out: how does one reconcile the “original benders” vs the Lion-Turtles originally giving humans bending?

That’s rough buddy

@@juniorsapoi7187 she didn’t invent blood bending

@@juniorsapoi7187 she was just the first known blood bender

@@juniorsapoi7187 Sub bending

@Kitzumi ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Sub bending

What is more intimidating than melon lord herself.

Imagine years of training, fighting along your troops, only to be trashed in one swoop by a blind 12 y.o girl

Melon 🍉 lord

i think i like badger moled....but learning from the moon spirt? awesome....or being a dragon rider fire bender.....so your actually utilizing pure dragons fire, drawing open an actually dragon.............dam we need forest bending as its own element, it could utilize plants, trees, poisens, toxin cures, accelerate plant and crop gowth and some degree of healing........lightning should get its own element...id add ice and frost creatures/spirits

Earthbenders: learned from lion turtle Firebenders: learned from lion turtle Airbenders: learned from lion turtle Waterbenders: learned from lion turtle

A fate worse than death

Yeah, The fog of lost SOULS. Zhao drowned, and the Ocean Spirit threw his SOUL in the fog of lost souls for eternity.

Zhao my as well be des for wat he has done.

pornhub well actually if you’re in the spirit world you’re not dead. aang went into the spirit world and he was still alive, and so did Korra, Bolin, mako, jinora, tenzin, kya, kaheer, and bumi did too.

@pornhub man, korra and asami went for a vacation/date in the spirit world....

I made a rom hack called Pokémon avatar and you use Pokémon to defeat fire lord

Can I see it or see the link

We need a master ball to catch the moon

Gotta catch them all

@@anomalous1879 Oh crap I forgot about the moon...

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Donromello Taylor lol

I just heard Toph's voice so clear

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Technically they didn't create them they just bend them

Moon spirit

That's rough buddy.

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Pax basically the original waterbenders are the moon spirit and water spirit , aka the Coy (idk how to spell it) Fishes

Damn nice theory

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Good point!

Not really cause just like katara and Sokka, Korra is mixed north tribe and south tribe and the next avatar would only come when the current os dead

Aang's age is actualy natural. as an avatar, they have longer life span than normal human. avatar kyoshi for example lived more than 200 years!

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It’s the moon

Shouldn’t the water be sea serpents

The moon controls the tide. Thata why ita the moon. Makes sense.

@Xxxvioletgacha xxX Moon.

We just assume that it happens...

Avatar Tenzen

I think he died and then his spirit was trapped there.

I think he physically died and then his spirit was sent there

His body drowned and then his spirit ended up in the fog

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Huntoons Yt oh yeah !

Glad you liked it! (I wrote the script for this video).

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Yep and for killing The Moon Spirit

Zhao did die

The smirks ruined it for me

@@siubhanward7631 He actually drowned and his spirit was sent to the fog of lost souls so his body will probably have been decaying for 70 years

@@dumbass7254 yes as I said, drowning is dying…

besides, the ATLA has its own universe from a collection of Asian cultures of what they believed the spirits were. They didn’t have to conform to just the Chinese version

SPECTRUM DAVE yeah but they are not the yon and yang spirits, those are ravaa and vaatu. Even though it’s not explicitly said, it’s heavily implies

@@danielkang1560 thx, but I think Ravaa and Vaatu are the spirit of peace/avatar spirit, and Vaatu is the one of chaos and negativity, u can say that their like the moon and water spirits representing a form of blances, but I dont even think there is a Yin and Yung spirit, I guess there are just some spirits that are opposite to each other

@@a.qflame7807 that's kinda just yin and yang though right? they fight and fight and fight but no one wins because they are equals

Raava and Vaatu are the Yin and Yang of The World of Avatar, they represent different ideals that oppose each other and when they fight/wrestle it was in a shape of Yin and Yang(Also they have the whole Raava as a little Vaatu in it and Vaatu has as a little Raava). The fish represents The Ocean and The Moon Also the Sun/Comets affect firebenders, but I don't know about Air and Earth

He's funny too.

yup because idk why my fren said i should so people know that im on youtube, why did i listen to them

Uh alot of avatars save the world, but there mistakes often lead to the world being threaten too

@@jordancherepanov8557 Yup, for example Avatar Roku, didn't stopped the 100 year war, because he didn't killed Fire Lord Sozin, before he had a chance. And, even the slightest mistake, like Avatar Kiyomi remember she indirectly killed Chin the conqueror? Yeah, his legacy brainwashed the people in Aang's trial that almost persecuted him.

Wan and korra did But They Also Endangered It first Lmao

@@paulandreig.sahagun34 kyoshi

The sun is yang moon is yin and this was way before science came about

The original belt bender is the snake

Lol

Blocked bended

No my great great grandfather was the first orginal belt bender and he pasted it to generations

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Atla

No the lion turtles gave the genetic power, the og benders turned it into a martial art. Think of it like the lion turtles gave people art supplies, while the og benders taught people how to make art

A really bad way for bending to be revealed should have left it a mystery

I honestly try my best to forget that Legend of Korra exist

The lion turtles gave wan the power of fire but the White dragon teacht him how to use it well

@@emersonperez6125 yeah, they were given the ability to control/direct the elements not bend them, the oh benders taught them how to bend them. Like the dragon teaching wan

I kind of imagine a story where their were animals that were the waterbending masters till something made them disappear along with secrets of waterbending lost. That's when waterbenders relied on the teachers from the Moon spirit.

So eternal time out

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Yue

She was a water bender before tgat

Lol

IN THE MOUNTAIN

The lions always did give bending, even in ATLA, if they had the ability to give Aang energybending then why not others? Also, the lions created bending while the original animals mastered it and used it as an extension of themselves

@Shonksu In Korra they show that humans got the ability to use the elements from lion turtles, but they were taught to bend the elements by the the animals and moon. That's explained when we see Wan training with the dragon after getting fire. The soldiers that tried attacking him even said something along the lines of "I've never seen anything like it. He was using fire as if it was extension of himself." The original benders showed people how to use the elements as an extension of their body, but didn't actually give people the ability to use the element. As years went on and lion turtles disappeared, it became a legend that people learned the elements from the original benders because no one really remembered the lion turtles. The sun warriors weren't wrong, the dragons are the original bending masters, but humans didn't gain the ability to use fire from them

Each Lion Turtle had a different element, the one in Atla was Spirit/Energy, the others in LoK were Fire, Air, Water, Earth. Those 5 Turtles(there could be more but they were hunted or something, also anyone who butthurt about the lion turtles giving humans bending and etc... never pay attention to the Library epsidoe, cause the first time we see the lion turtle we see like we saw them in LoK). Those turtle give/take the ability to bend to humans they didn't teach them, they give them the ability to bend while Dragons, Air Bison, Badger Mole and Koi Spirit Fish were the "Original Bending Masters". So the turtles give them the ability and the Masters nurtured that ability which in a sense is part of the world avatar cause it represents balance

The lion turtles never bent elements, they bent energy they were the original energy benders, and passed that ability to humans who used energy to learn how to bend the elements

That’s what happens with bad retcons.

@@KhanMann66 The most accepted explanation was that the original sources were the spirits that taught the benders how to use their bending, while the ability to bend came from the Lion turtles. This falls in line with how Lion turtles gave the ability to energy bend to Aang, which is just about the same process where the benders of the past gain their abilities. This is actually lines up with the fact that everyone has the chance to possess the ability to bend, but not everyone is a bender. So even if a bunch of people who have earth nation heritage go to a badgermole to learn from them, only some will actually be able to learn from them since only some of them will be able to bend earth. So the original source is not so much the original source, rather it is just the source that is more focused with a style that aligns with a creature/spirit that possesses the ability naturally. For examples, the dragon became known as the original source as they were the ones that cherished and used fire. So the movement of the dragons became the basis for the stances and types of moves used by many fire benders of the old age. The idea of the creature being a orignal source moreso comes from the fact that they are the creatures that live and breathe the elements they represent, which led to them being known as the original source.

The most accepted explanation is basically lion turtles gave the ability to humans, but the original sources were the ones that humans drew inspiration for how to use their bending.

Even in Avatar, a Lion turtle gives Aang the ability to energy bend

@@KhanMann66 It's not a retcon they have the power they just didn't know how to use it properly ergo water bending fire bending Earth bending an air bending forms . Katara was perfectly able to bend the elements when she hasn't trained yet sure but when she learned technique and proper form look at what she became. That's like me saying I can play every instrument that exists technically sure I could play it I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be too good though unless I learn

Oh yes, It's very confusing and needs more explanation. Personally, I'm much more inclined toward the Animals were the original benders for a couple reasons. Physical Evidence: In "the cave of the two lovers" we find physical evidence that Oma and Shu existed. Even though they are a legend, we found a tomb that verifies they existed. Literary Statement: We are told multiple that the animals were the original benders. (Basic exposition) Yet it is never verbally confirms that bending came from the lion turtles; people just assume that. Simply put, we have a lot of dialogue that reinforces the Bending animals, but very little about the lion turtles. All and all, I think the bending animals are the originals, and the lion turtles were only meant to explain where the Avatar got his/her power.

Humans just obtained the ability to use the elements from the lion turtles and then they learned how to properly use it from the original benders and thus bending was born, ie wan learning how to fire bend from the dragons

Actually I think the lion turtles were proctecters of the bending race correct me if am wrong

@@sherleymavuso4151 Well we know that the lion turtles protected the humans living on their backs, but there's no evidence to suggest they helped protect the bending animals.

Your later paragraphs are basically it. Here's one important thing to pay attention to. So notice in the episodes, they never called it "bending". They always called it the "power of the element". Like you said, Wan was actually shown learning from a dragon. And in the same episode, the guy from the fire turtle was amazed by how Wan wields fire and described it as "using fire like it's an extension of his body". This harkens back to even in the start of AtLA, Katara said that she wasn't a waterbender yet, despite having the power of water. Toph also described earthbending as part of the badgermoles' senses and their way of interacting with the world. In a way, it's like bending is the art form itself and using it as an extension of the body, while the lion turtles just gave the innate power. Think of having a sword, but without actually practicing the art itself, it won't be that useful. And after 10 thousand years, the distinction between bending and the "the power" became moot, like how meanings and symbolisms of legends in real life become mixed up over time. Oma and Shu could simply just be legends with inaccuracies. Or it was kinda right, if we're taking into account the true essence of "bending". Maybe they had the power of earth beforehand, and just learned to use it as an extension of their body. Also, even in Book 3 Change, after the whole lion turtle "bending" origin had been established, Tenzin still referred to the sky bisons as the original airbenders. This was in S3E7 Original Airbenders :) This would also explain the question of, "if they just learned from the animals, why can't nonbenders like Sokka just go observe them and learn".

Late reply but when the turtle talked to aang he said “ before beginning less time” Also in korra even raava calls the turtles “ great ones “ Lion turtles where first before anything

Well not really. The portals to the spirit world only existed in the legend of Korra timeline, not ATLA. His spirit was sent to the Fog of lost souls after he drowned in the canal

@@sikisiki7458 They never found a body so the spirit probably just dragged him into the spirit world. Also the portal technically did exist they just didn't know about them

Jupiter Systems the portals didn’t exist, like, at all. You can’t just not notice a giant pillar of light. they didn’t exist until Eska and Desna opened them. Zhao doed

@@sikisiki7458 they were there they were just closed. . .

Jupiter Systems ok so how do you suppose he survived in the spirit world? Unless he was already dead, he would’ve aged in those 70 years.

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@@pirate6616 same here buddy

I mean... that's basically killing him in a way. His body is never found and when you're in the spirit world its just your soul in there. The fog of lost souls is basically purgatory, your body will die because you can't leave the spirit world to nourish it but your soul can't move on to their world's version of the afterlife. By the time Tenzin, Kaya, and Bumi meet him his body would be long gone so he's basically dead in limbo at that point Aiwei in LoK is another example of that. He meditated into the spirit world and Zaheer threw him into the fog, so his body will eventually wither and die since he can't "wake up" to feed and hydrate himself

@@jaysonhayes7732 Touché

I have to agree... I prefer the calm voice acting on the Amagi.

Same the Amagi’s voice is what I come for

I do remember the coi fish the ocean spirit, and moon spirit