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Post by The Avatar on Jun 25, 2012 17:24:24 GMT -5
Everyone can choose from any of the three Elements.
Water, Earth, and Fire.
Airbenders are extinct and as of now the only known are Avatar Aang and his son Tenzin. Air Acolytes follow their ways.
Waterbenders
Firebenders
Earthbenders
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Post by The Avatar on Jun 25, 2012 17:55:00 GMT -5
Waterbenders are able to manipulate water, giving it shape, moving it with great speed and power, or changing its phase from water to ice or vapor (and vice versa).
They focus on the defense, turning their opponent's blows against them, blocking them with gushing watery shields, or immobilizing their opponents in ice. Select waterbenders can also heal wounds, using water as a medium through which to align the chi and promote healing.
Bloodbending is illegal as decreed by Waterbending Master Katara. Any bender using the forbidden art will be arrested.
Waterbenders draw their power from the Moon and venerate the Moon Spirit above all others. Their power waxes in the moonlight and wanes during the day. Also, many members of the Water Tribe revere the Ocean Spirit as the source of life for their people.
In Republic City the two Water Tribes are represented on the Council. The have various jobs through out the city, many becoming Medics in the hospitals.
Another waterbending weakness is its dependence on the moon (see below). Although waterbenders gain power from the moon (with waterbending at its zenith during full moons), the moon's absence during a lunar eclipse results in a complete loss of waterbending ability.
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Post by The Avatar on Jun 25, 2012 18:03:30 GMT -5
Firebenders are fast, powerful, and aggressive. Lacking the potent defensive moves of the other bending disciplines, Firebenders seek to strike quick and hard, defeating their opponent before defense is necessary.
They use a variety of attacks to project their fire, with quick hand jabs and punches resulting in short bursts of fire while sweeping kicks create arcs of flame. Some of the most powerful Firebenders are able to create walls of fire, or generate blue fire or electricity, the most powerful forms of the Firebending art.
Any Firebender able to produce electricity may have jobs at any of the various power plants or Sato Industries.
While the extent of Firebender spirituality is unknown, it is commonly thought that Firebenders revere the sun as the source of their powers. It is also thought that some Firebenders revere past Avatars from the Fire Nation. Many Firebenders are stubbornly individualistic and do not profess any strong religious beliefs.
Its connection to the sun results in a lessening of strength during the night and a complete loss of firebending during a solar eclipse.
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Post by The Avatar on Jun 25, 2012 18:08:18 GMT -5
Of all the bending arts, earthbending is perhaps the most balanced, strong in both offense and defense. On the offense, earthbenders can hurl large boulders at their enemies, trap their enemies in cages of stone and soil.
They can immerse their enemies in earth, or throw them off balance with localized earthquakes. On the defensive, they can raise stone walls out of the ground, encase their bodies in earthen armor, and hurl their enemies away with quickly-rising columns of stone.
Metelbenders must have attended Toph Beifong's School of Metalbending. They may or may not be a member of Republic City Police.
Eearthbenders are incredibly self-sufficient and, as a group, show little predilection for religion. Some revere the earth King as a minor deity, but many do not.
An earthbender's powers are firmly rooted to the ground on which they stand. Removing them any substantial distance from the earth, such as in the air or on the ocean, strips them of their ability to bend. However it has been shown that earthbenders are still able to earthbend if the ground connecting them to the earth is made of metal.
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