[ She exhales, contemplatively, hands folding behind her back in thought. It is. And it might be normal history for her, but that's not really the same here, huh? ]
Korra said a long time ago people borrowed their bending from the Lion Turtles. They were Spirits who protected mankind back then... But then people left their protection and took the bending with them. That's how the first benders came to be, but there's no more Lion Turtles to bless them.
[ That they know of, anyway. She smiles faintly, glancing at the sea. ]
If you're meant to be a bender, you're born with it now. It's passed on from generation after generation in the nations. But after the Harmonic Convergence, there were suddenly Airbenders appearing everywhere.
[ There's an unspoken thrill in it, even if there's some soberity in that pause as she says: ] We think that it was the world bringing itself back in balance, because my family were the only Airbenders left in all of existences. The Air Nomads were wiped out when my Grandpa Aang was little... But now, there's a lot more of us every day.
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[ She exhales, contemplatively, hands folding behind her back in thought. It is. And it might be normal history for her, but that's not really the same here, huh? ]
Korra said a long time ago people borrowed their bending from the Lion Turtles. They were Spirits who protected mankind back then... But then people left their protection and took the bending with them. That's how the first benders came to be, but there's no more Lion Turtles to bless them.
[ That they know of, anyway. She smiles faintly, glancing at the sea. ]
If you're meant to be a bender, you're born with it now. It's passed on from generation after generation in the nations. But after the Harmonic Convergence, there were suddenly Airbenders appearing everywhere.
[ There's an unspoken thrill in it, even if there's some soberity in that pause as she says: ] We think that it was the world bringing itself back in balance, because my family were the only Airbenders left in all of existences. The Air Nomads were wiped out when my Grandpa Aang was little... But now, there's a lot more of us every day.