Observations about Ava-verse nationalities...

[aden]

Still though, would it stand to reason that within the bloodline of any air nomad is the gene for airbending? In which case, if there's still a decent amount of air nomads alive, there's certain chance than any pure-bred children could be benders.

[eishuu]

I forget where I read this, but I thought that of ALL the nations, only the Air Nomads had a 100% population = bender rate?

My train of thought (based on that assumption) XD;;;;

Start slapping me if I'm wrong.

Airbending's a dominant trait, and any offspring of Aang's would be an airbender also.

Of course, this would mean he'll have the mighty task of repeopling HIS people once he's of age. Otherwise, three more rebirths later, they'd run into the same problem/risk of breaking the Avatar cycle of Air Water Earth Fire.

Incidentally, if Aang died NOW, the Avatar'd probably be reborn in either Foggy Swamp or North Pole, since the reincarnation's supposed to happen within a week of the avatar's death (meaning into a pregnant woman already close to term).

Next cycle's a waterbender Avatar, but South Pole's out since they haven't had a man there in AGES unless Sokka did something we don't know about. XDDD

Also, if the next Avatar's FEMALE and born in the North Pole, if it wasn't FOR Katara, I think Master dry old stick Pakku would just tell her to go to the healing huts like a proper girl. XP

[aden]

I'm sure the North has made exceptions for female Avatars in their past. After all, the monks of the Southern Temple had ways of discerning whether newborns were the Avatar. It's only logical that the other nations have ways of distinguishing Avatar children too.

The Northern Water Tribe also seems very spiritual, and I doubt any teacher would dare deny the Avatar training because they happened to be born in a female body.

[jialingjin]

I agree with Aden. The Avatar Relics were also passed from temple to temple when the next child was expected. They were used as the final test.
And Yes.. the Northern Water Tribe would like.. have to make acceptions for a Female Avatar.. >> it just makes sense. After all.. they could pull the fish god thing and wreak havoc.

[eishuu]

I thought the four 'toys' were passed from temple to temple - and lost presumably, since they were last seen in Air Nomad keeping when we see them last, and there aren't a lot of relics left. :xp:

Also, if there hadn't been Katara's previous example, I think ti's very likely for the female waterbender Avatar to have had been the one beating sense into Master Pakku for lessons. Granted, this is just my take on the stubborn old geezer. XD;;

Whatabout my idea on Aang being a progenitor/re-establishing the Air Nomads? XD;;;

[aden]

Well, that goes on the assumption that Aang is the only person of air nomad descent alive in the entire world. I'd go out on a limb and say that there's at least one living descendant, no matter what percentage of air nomad blood they are. In which case, the next Air Avatar in the cycle would simply be born to the next child of any Air Nomad blood.

It's still likely that Aang will play a key role in the restoration of his people(assuming he doesn't die in the line of duty <.<), but I wouldn't say it's impossible for the the cycle to remain unbroken without him.

[naru]

As for the pro wrestling thing I dont watch wrestling at all its fake and it is said that the entire population of the Air Nomads is capable of bending because theare all so spiritual

spirituality and genetics are what determines whether you are a bender or not

[aden]

No one's born spiritual, though. To imply that one can achieve bending by being spiritual is to impy that it's a learned skill. And, as far as we know, you're either a bender or you're not, regardless of your training or disposition.

I doubt that ALL air nomads were benders. It's more likely that all their benders were simply sent to the temples to learn the art. And since the only link to the past is Aang and his memories, we don't really have the chance to learn much about the life of non-bending air nomads.

[naru]

Spiritual does not nesecarilly mean religious or anything like that you have to think Asian about this espescially buddhist taoist that sorta stuff. In Ba Gua Zhang it is believed that before birth your qi (thats actually how its supposed to be spelled) is in balance so the symbol is yin yang surrounded by the 8 trigrams but in this pre birth symbol everything is balanced the symbols for heaven and earth are opposite of each other fire and water are opposite etc. while after birth this is mixed up. Its possible that because of the believe in reincarnation that is apparent in this show the early air nomads could have achieved a high level of spirituality or "found there center" or balanced their qi(another ba gua philosiphy) then been reincarted into the air nomads again plus the Air temple are like Shaolin temples which are made up of orphans and children whose parents didnt want them. I do agree though that the population was very realisticly not 100% benders but i do believe it was close.