Lightning Bending???

[redcamo14]

Notice Azula in the previews. Isn't she bending lightning?! If so, then I guess there is more to Avatar than we thought.

Creepeh.

[The Lion Turtle]

Yes, Zula was Lightning Bending.

As far as I know its a branch off of Firebending, like Waterbenders and ice. I don't think it's a separate form of bending nor do I think Zula can (technically) Bend more than one Element.

If you look into Greek history, they believed that everything was made up of four elements: Water, Earth, Fire and Air. However, Lightning was linked with Fire; basically, to the Ancient Greeks, they were one and the same. They had a similar thinking with Water and ice, and Earth and wood.

Now, as it has been shown that one can bend ice as well as water or lightning as well as fire, I think the same can be true for earth and plants, but this is only logic speaking. One would think that Earthbenders can bend metal, but, alas, the cannont (proved by episode six, Imprisonment.)

[midori]

M-hm. I think it's just a break off of firebending. Because remember, Iroh kind of 'bended' lightning during the storm. I think it just goes along with being a firebender.

[redcamo14]

I stand corrected. So that is why she is a 'firebending prodigy'.

[firelord]

Wow! So do you think Aang will be able to "Lightning Bend" once he learns fire bending?

[jialingjin]

Earth benders probably could be minerals, which is basically unrefined metal. It's the smolting of the minerals by the Fire Nation that removes the impurities and turns it into metal.

[sai]

*raises hand* I have a question: Why did Azula bend lightning from her finger (I think) and Iroh from actually lightning from the clouds...

[The Lion Turtle]

He was really acting like a conductor so the lighting hit the water instead of the ship...

[sai]

Oh... We are learning about this in science, but I don't get it x.X Thanks.

[naru]

admin said:

Yes, Zula was Lightning Bending.

As far as I know its a branch off of Firebending, like Waterbenders and ice. I don't think it's a separate form of bending nor do I think Zula can (technically) Bend more than one Element.

If you look into Greek history, they believed that everything was made up of four elements: Water, Earth, Fire and Air. However, Lightning was linked with Fire; basically, to the Ancient Greeks, they were one and the same. They had a similar thinking with Water and ice, and Earth and wood.

Now, as it has been shown that one can bend ice as well as water or lightning as well as fire, I think the same can be true for earth and plants, but this is only logic speaking. One would think that Earthbenders can bend metal, but, alas, the cannont (proved by episode six, Imprisonment.)

Aaah, but they can bend metal but the mateals used to make fire nation ships vehicles, and armor have been smelted, otherwise an earthbender could hypothetically bend a chunk of iron, and it is a theory that firebenders are not technically "fire" benders but rather heat or plasma benders since lightning and fire both contain plasma (but i doubt the plasma bending theory since there is even plasma in your blood) but think in an ancient civilization if someone shot lightning at you would most like;y call him a firebender

[aden]

naru said:

Aaah, but they can bend metal but the mateals used to make fire nation ships vehicles, and armor have been smelted, otherwise an earthbender could hypothetically bend a chunk of iron, and it is a theory that firebenders are not technically "fire" benders but rather heat or plasma benders since lightning and fire both contain plasma (but i doubt the plasma bending theory since there is even plasma in your blood) but think in an ancient civilization if someone shot lightning at you would most like;y call him a firebender

If you wanted to group together all the actual elemnts that go under the earthbender's jurisdiction, it's pretty much the first two groups on the periodic table. The Alkalis and the Alkaline Earth Metals seem to be what mostly comprises the soil, though they also seem to be able to bend coal(Carbon). All the transition metals, starting with iron and going onward, aren't really present in enough quantity to say that they comprise a major portion of the Earth itself.

As for the plasma bending theory, the Plasma in your blood is not the same plasma associated with lightning and nebulas. They're similar in name only, not in the sense that they're super-heated gases.

The way Iroh explained it in Bitter Work, I believe that the reason lightning is grouped with firebending deals with the nature of fire itself. Fire is the result of energy being released from a reaction(combustion). In this sense it stands to reason that firebending, at its core, involved the capability to change the amount of energy in the air around the bender in order to spur the reaction. And since lightning is basically the result of an imbalance of energy trying to balance itself out, I'll accept that they've grouped lightning with the firebenders.

[naru]

Im in going into eighth grade and i didnt even know what plasma really was until you stated it you gotta give me credit for being able to puzzle it as far as i have, i know kids my age who often have to think about it before saying 2+2=4

*reflects back on one of those moments and laughs*

[kaska]

Blood contains a different form of plasma than the actual plasma state. Plasma is where matter gets so hot it can't maintain molecular/atomic stability.

Also, I believe that firebending is done by using the user's own body heat as a medium for generating the flame. Also, lightning bending is, in fact, a branch off of fire bending, but can only be done with total emotional control. Where fire bending is actually fueled by emotion, lightning is destroyed by it, which is why Zuko isn't able to use it; he's too full of emotion.

[gandalan]

aden said:

naru said:

Aaah, but they can bend metal but the mateals used to make fire nation ships vehicles, and armor have been smelted, otherwise an earthbender could hypothetically bend a chunk of iron, and it is a theory that firebenders are not technically "fire" benders but rather heat or plasma benders since lightning and fire both contain plasma (but i doubt the plasma bending theory since there is even plasma in your blood) but think in an ancient civilization if someone shot lightning at you would most like;y call him a firebender

If you wanted to group together all the actual elemnts that go under the earthbender's jurisdiction, it's pretty much the first two groups on the periodic table. The Alkalis and the Alkaline Earth Metals seem to be what mostly comprises the soil, though they also seem to be able to bend coal(Carbon). All the transition metals, starting with iron and going onward, aren't really present in enough quantity to say that they comprise a major portion of the Earth itself.

As for the plasma bending theory, the Plasma in your blood is not the same plasma associated with lightning and nebulas. They're similar in name only, not in the sense that they're super-heated gases.

The way Iroh explained it in Bitter Work, I believe that the reason lightning is grouped with firebending deals with the nature of fire itself. Fire is the result of energy being released from a reaction(combustion). In this sense it stands to reason that firebending, at its core, involved the capability to change the amount of energy in the air around the bender in order to spur the reaction. And since lightning is basically the result of an imbalance of energy trying to balance itself out, I'll accept that they've grouped lightning with the firebenders.

I think this deserves an 'attaboy'. I hereby reward you 1000 uber points, redeemable with nobody, they are used completely as bragging points. Enjoy!

[aden]

gandalan said:

I think this deserves an 'attaboy'. I hereby reward you 1000 uber points, redeemable with nobody, they are used completely as bragging points. Enjoy!

w00t! Though I wish I could redeem them now for a Collector's Edition Avatar Bed Sheet set...