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The titular "Avatar" is the only person who can bend all four elements, and they are responsible for maintaining spiritual and physical balance in the world. After an Avatar's death, the Avatar spirit is reborn into a new person of a different nation, who must learn their bending skills anew and take on their Avatar responsibilities.
There are also sub-elements, such as metal, ice, and lightning. Along with the four elements, there are four nations that correspond with each element. Not everyone can bend an element, and those that can can only bend one. However, the Avatar is a being able to manipulate all four elements, as well as communicate with the spirits.
The Avatar can enter a condition known as the "Avatar State", in which they temporarily gain the skills and knowledge of all their past incarnations. Although this is when they are at their most powerful, if the Avatar was ever killed while in the Avatar State, the reincarnation cycle would be broken and the Avatar would cease to exist.
Fans of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” have pondered that question since the announcement of a live-action version of the series. ... The original Nickelodeon show portrayed Aang’s bending ...
Many characters in the world of Avatar have the ability to "bend", or to psychokinetically manipulate the element associated with their nationality. One individual, the Avatar, is able to bend all four elements. [2] Avatar: The Last Airbender takes place 100 years after the Fire Nation carried out a genocide against the Air Nomads. [1]
Avatar Roku appears to Aang and informs him about a comet that Fire Lord Sozin used to begin the war by harnessing its power to enhance the Fire Nation's bending and wipe out the Air Nomads. Sozin's Comet will return by the end of the coming summer and give Fire Lord Ozai the power to finish the war with a brutal assault.
As the Avatar, Roku knew the importance of balance between all nations and vehemently disagreed. Some time later, upon seeing a Fire Nation colony in Earth Kingdom territory, Roku swiftly defeats Sozin but spares him in honor of their past friendship and warns that further dissent will result in his demise.
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