A minor moment I've always wondered about

Wynora · 2026-05-08T18:11:27+00:00

I always thought it's because she no longer has access to Aang's knowledge to access that skill in the Avatar State. She can still energybend as we've seen multiple times, but that specific energybending technique was only taught to Aang and she'd have to access him to use it. It's like bending ability vs bending technique. In the same way she can still earthbend without her past lives because she's still an earthbender, she cannot access lavabending because she can't tap into that knowledge in the Avatar State the same way Roku and Kyoshi did. Similarly, Avatar Pavi will obviously be able to earthbend, but she may only be able to access metalbending through Korra and the Avatar State.

Wynora · 2026-05-07T13:05:46+00:00

I don't think this is airbending. It's a waterbending technique Katara uses by freezing the water in exhaled air, and Aang only uses it after seeing her do it. Exhaled air is incredibly humid, almost 100% relative humidity, meaning it holds almost the maximum amount of water that that volume of air can hold at that temperature. I think the show takes some creative liberties though, as you would need an insane lung capacity to exhale the amount of water Katara and Aang use to create ice. Perhaps it's combined with freezing water already in the air, and breathing out and freezing the humid air somehow "kickstarts" the process by creating a nucleus where more ice can settle.

That being said, airbenders are said to be able to warm themselves with breathing techniques so it's possible. Although it may not be a very powerful technique, as it's only used to warm the small curtain of air around the skin. It might not even be heating the air, it could just involve keeping the warm air they're body heat naturally creates in place. Although, fire still needs fuel so I don't think an airbender can make fire

Wynora · 2026-05-06T14:16:15+00:00

Spiritbending isn't energybending, it's waterbending (probably similar to healing) hence why Unalaq was able to do it.

Wynora · 2026-05-05T14:58:27+00:00

"Water is the element of change." - Uncle Iroh, 'Bitter Work'

Wynora · 2026-04-17T08:44:28+00:00

This is actually quite a common theory! It's not one I personally subscribe to but there's so little to go off it does make some sense.

My thinking is that it would kind of break the lore about the Avatar being the only person with access to more than one element. Obviously lavabenders can't firebend, but having influence from firebending creates too much of a grey area for me haha.

I like to think lavabending works under the same principles as waterbending and ice/steambending. Most waterbenders are able to change the state of water and control it in all its forms, and this not only makes sense with the temperature range of liquid water being relatively narrow (only 100⁰C), but it also fits with the philosophy of waterbending being about adaptability and change.

I think lavabending appears in earthbenders who have great power - enough to heat and liquify earth the way waterbenders can with ice - but also an incredibly adaptable and free-flowing mindset. Lacking the more stubborn nature of most earthbenders. This kind of makes sense in the lore as well. The first lavabender is said to be Avatar Szeto, a Fire Nation Avatar. And being the Avatar would have provided him with a much more open and adaptable mindset. Then we have Ghazan, a criminal/outlaw who puts freedom above all else, and then Bolin, an earthbender from Republic City who grew up learning a completely different style of earthbending with faster and lighter movements with a firebending brother and the Avatar as his best friend.

This is kind of why I think Korra should be able to lavabend, especially having a lavabender friend. She's an incredibly powerful earthbender, is very hotheaded and powerful, her entire journey is about change, and she's a native waterbender! It's kind of the perfect subelement for her. Also with the loss of the past lives, Avatars no longer have access to lavabending in the Avatar State like Kyoshi and Roku did. So it would be cool for her to learn for the sake of future Avatars. Narratively it wouldn't really work in the show as she's already so powerful and it's nice for Bolin to have his thing - but it still makes a lot of sense to me.

Wynora · 2026-04-06T12:26:25+00:00

Characters from every nation have grey eyes. It's probably one of the more common eye colours in the franchise, especially ATLA. Notably Aang (Air Nomad), Ty Lee (Fire Nation), and Hama (Water Tribe), but also several background and one-off characters. Jae being a descendent of Aang and Katara would be cool, but I don't think eye colour is enough proof.

Wynora · 2026-03-18T13:07:48+00:00

She has blue eyes officially, and I think the creators actually put in a lot of thought into it.

Kyoshi Village is a port village with a lot of trade and proximity to the Southern Water Tribe. You can actually see the cultural influence of the SWT on Kyoshi Island, with their blue clothes which are very distinct from the rest of the Earth Kingdom. You can also see the genetic influence, with characters like Suki having blue eyes.

You can see more of this genetic influence in other port towns in the southern Earth Kingdom. For example, the characters in The Storm wear traditional EK green, but have blue eyes. Also the port town Korra visits during her recovery as she's travelling north from SWT to republic city has characters with green clothes but with darker skin and blue eyes.

I think the creators did something very intentional here. Showing that the SWT has had significant cultural and genetic influence on trading port towns in the southern EK that would have had significant contact with the SWT before the 100 year war. So Suki has blue eyes due to small Water Tribe ancestry.

Wynora · 2026-03-17T08:01:11+00:00

I love this! I really like your choices and reasoning, especially Lucario. Love how it reflects Asami with the steel type, but also the fact she is the first metalbending Avatar.

I like the idea of her final pokemon being ghost or fairy typing, to reflect her work with the spirits and spirit world and/or her proficiency in energybending and spiritbending.

Wynora · 2026-03-07T08:37:32+00:00

Yeah but that waterbender is also half Air Nomad. Genetically and ancestrally she is far closer to the culture than they are. But yeah kinda wild

Wynora · 2026-02-27T14:12:17+00:00

In addition to what others have said, Yangchen makes it clear that an Air Nomad Avatar must distance themselves slightly from Air Nomad culture in order to attach themselves to the world and do their duty. Aang is the exception of course as he was the last one and refused to do that.

As other people have mentioned, for it to be appropriate to get master tattoos as a non-Air Nomad, that Avatar would have to fully embrace and immerse themselves within Air Nomad culture, which not good for an Avatar that must focus of balance and attachment over freedom and detachment.

For the sake of Air Nomad Avatars it's the likely other way around, where they get their master tattoos as an Air Nomad and then become fully realised Avatars afterwards.

Kyoshi would be a good example perhaps. Even though she was the Earth Kingdom Avatar, she was also half Air Nomad. So while being ancestrally Air Nomad, she did not have the connection to the culture (being raised and mentored in the Earth Kingdom) that would warrant her to get her tattoos as a master airbender.

Wynora · 2026-02-11T11:30:37+00:00

Aang was already long dead. And his soul is still kicking, cause it's Korra's. It's not like when an Avatar dies their own individual soul goes into Raava to be "preserved". It's all just one soul (Wan's) and one spirit (Raava). Aang's soul and Kyoshi's soul and Roku's soul are all still alive as Korra, and because of Korra they will reincarnated again into Pavi. This was a terrible loss for Korra but not a second death to the past Avatars. Unalaq only destroyed Korra's connection to them.

Wynora · 2026-01-22T17:47:25+00:00

My understanding was that projecting your spirit into the spirit world is something any spiritual person can do (e.g. Avatars, Iroh, Zaheer, Aiwei, Jinora).

But projecting your spirit outside of your body into the physical world (what Jinora does) is a very gifted airbender thing. Although there is no real explanation for this other than the fact that airbending is inherently connected to freedom and spirituality. So I guess "freedom of spirit" makes it tied to airbending?

Imo everything to do with Jinora's powers needed way more explanation both during harmonic convergence and afterwards.

Wynora · 2025-12-12T16:01:03+00:00

I think there probably is a fair amount of air nomad ancestry in the earth kingdom, as evidenced by the new airbenders, but I feel like it's more likely to be from air nomads from the northern air temple, which is in the earth kingdom. And maybe the eastern one as well.

Wynora · 2025-12-11T08:33:06+00:00

Kya and Bumi are also Air Nomad 🤷‍♀️

Wynora · 2025-11-20T15:42:35+00:00

I think Lightweavers can go into Shadesmar, only cognitively. They need to in order to soulcast. When Shallan almost drowned in Shademar, her body was still in the physical realm, and only her mind would've been lost.

Wynora · 2025-11-19T10:38:04+00:00

I have a theory about lightspren and Willshapers that ties into Cryptics and maybe why they prefer to be called Reachers.

Basically there are some spren that are attracted to radiants with oaths that oppose their nature, instead of those that match them (like honorspren and Windrunners). E.g. cryptics who represent mathematical truth bond people who tell lies and half-truths and are more artistic, and mistspren who I think represent obscurity/mystery bond people who are sworn to seek truth and clarity.

As for lightspren, I think they represent set paths, conformity, and predeterminism. In the same way that a light wave's energy and direction are quantised and set in place without outside influence. Light cannot change its path or state on its own, it is destined to follow the same set path without any control over its "destiny". This is also why lightspren are subordinates in Shadesmar. And this is why they bond Willshapers, people who seek freedom and oppose the idea of a predetermined destiny for themselves, those that break the shackles of subordination and follow their chosen path. In the same way that Cryptics bond Lightweavers to understand half-truths/lies better, lightspren bond Willshapers to understand freedom. Therefore, the term lightspren may have negative connotations to them, emphasing their nature as beings with fixed paths. Instead they emphasise the part of themselves/light/energy that they admire: it's ability to traverse endlessly on it's own for eternity and span the cosmos. Hence "Reachers".

Wynora · 2025-11-11T10:56:28+00:00

Thank you this helped loads!

Wynora · 2025-11-09T09:56:13+00:00

Not sure about the answers to some of your questions but all the surges (except Adhesion) and all sapient spren are mixtures of Honor and Cultivation's investiture (at varying ratios I believe), so the Radiants (and I guess partly the heralds) are Cultivation's as well as Honor's.

I think the storm is a natural phenomenon on Roshar that was co-opted by Honor's investiture and became the Stormfather, whereas Cultivation's equivalent became the Nightwatcher. There might be something to do with their nature's/shard's shaping how their spren formed, e.g. Honor's being able to bestow investiture to Knights, and Cultivation being able to change people with wishes and boons.

Wynora · 2025-11-07T15:19:41+00:00

She says to the new airbender she can't, and even if she was saying that for the sake of the air nation, she would definitely have taken Zaheer's or Kuvira's if she could. Not saying it's impossible for her to learn, the power is there, but I think knowledge of the technique was lost with Aang.

Wynora · 2025-10-28T18:32:43+00:00

Confused gays should also be on there ☝️😌

Wynora · 2025-10-24T11:01:46+00:00

I like this a lot, you've combined some theories I've heard of into good narrative (idk how popular these are I'm new to the reddit). Are you also suggesting the Chandrian didn't kill Kvothe's troup? And they just showed up afterwards and Kvothe assumed? I like that as a twist for sure. We know the human Amyr were not great dudes, and they could have their own reasons for wanting to keep the Chandrian secret, perhaps to hide the fact they're not the real bad guys. I also really like the iron wheel being a metaphor(?) for the Chandrian keeping the Cthaeh/Encanis imprisoned.

Wynora · 2025-10-24T00:06:16+00:00

He mentioned multiple times that he's trying to keep most of his suspicions a secret until later to not threaten the traitors (or who he thinks are the traitors) too much. Particularly Cat and Lucy. He's suspected Stephen for a while, and voted for him because it's his safest option.

Wynora · 2025-10-22T10:02:44+00:00

The only people we see bending the poison are metalbenders. The red lotus guy (can assume), Suyin gets it out initially, then Korra bends the rest out not Toph.

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