In the episodes of Korra we see that contrary to local legends the bending ability was granted to humans by the Lion Turtles. The Avatar's ability to bend more than one element comes from an outside force that is revealed during book 2 of Korra.Īs we learn in Korra Book 2 chapters 7 and 8 that bending was granted to humans as a defense against the spirits by the Lion Turtles last seen in Last Airbender Book 3 chapter 19. Events in Book 3 may support this interpretation, or could be a one-off event as the aftermath of events in Book 2. Specifically that airbenders access to the element air is tied to their spirituality and that they are drawn from the other three nations.
Also, Bryke have intimated in panels that the element available to the bender is both tied to their personality and informs their personality. They tend to be withing the same element as their culture, but as we see with Mako, Bolin and Aang's children, that is not always consistent. Also, children of non-bending parents can have a bending child. Children of 2 different bending backgrounds can produce offspring that bend either element, or possibly none at all. It has been explicitly stated in the show and by Bryke.
So with new bending techniques being formed all the time, already stated used of combined elements being used, an assumed spiritual connection to a past life or a spiritual journey been taken, energybending rediscovered is it possible that two elements could be bent by one bender who is not the Avatar?ĭuring Aang and Korra's time no, only the Avatar can bend more than one element. It also states on the Energybending wiki entry that all bending used to be done as an inner bending but that it became element bending. They both use breath control as a main focus of their bending. But why couldn't a Fire Bender learn to bend Air. And there would definitely be limits such as a Earth bender couldn't bend Air and a Water bender couldn't bend Fire. Would it be possible to bend two elements? There do seem to be times where it has been done in the series such as bending mud which is both Earth and Water. So if someone was connected to the spirit world or even their past life that would fulfill that requirement. Also Iroh spent time connecting to the spirit world and that seems to be the main reason the Avatar is able to bend all 4 elements. Iroh was able to adapt a water bender technique to fire bending which means it is possible to learn and use different bending styles.
Now metal is considered part of the Earth but so is sand and it seems that sand is moved more like water. Many benders do learn to bend beyond their element such as Toph becoming a metal bender and Katarra bending blood. I don't see any reason why someone couldn't learn to bend two elements (not master, but just bend since Thadeus's Answer What stops other benders from mastering the four elements? to the previous question is apparently the Definitive Answer on the subject.) There would also be good reasons as to why someone couldn't learn all four, there is always the opposing element that is hardest for the Avatar to learn. After reading this question What stops other benders from mastering the four elements? While it seems that it would break one of the rules of the show, that only the avatar can master all four elements.
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