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* Tengriism (the traditional religion of a good amount of the people of the Steppe) also has a lot of sky-based symbolism, making this even more appropriate. Also, this would be a much more interesting WMG if the Airbender-Mongols had benders in their ranks, rather than being entirely non-benders, since it gives them the opportunity to [[UpToEleven improve upon]] the Mongol's infamous archery skills by {{Roboteching}} arrows mid-flight using airbending. Perhaps a SequelSeries will explore this idea, with an emphasis on airbending villains to contrast with the main series' emphasis on firebending villains and WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra's emphasis on waterbending villains. Of course, it would have to be a {{Prequel}} or {{Interquel}}, since an army of NotQuiteDead airbending [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy Mongols]] would be defeated laughably easily by the tech present in Korra's time.
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* Tengriism (the traditional religion of a good amount of the people of the Steppe) also has a lot of sky-based symbolism, making this even more appropriate. Also, this would be a much more interesting WMG if the Airbender-Mongols had benders in their ranks, rather than being entirely non-benders, since it gives them the opportunity to [[UpToEleven improve upon]] upon the Mongol's infamous archery skills by {{Roboteching}} arrows mid-flight using airbending. Perhaps a SequelSeries will explore this idea, with an emphasis on airbending villains to contrast with the main series' emphasis on firebending villains and WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra's emphasis on waterbending villains. Of course, it would have to be a {{Prequel}} or {{Interquel}}, since an army of NotQuiteDead airbending [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy Mongols]] would be defeated laughably easily by the tech present in Korra's time.
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* This troper has always assumed that Ozai was just high on his own success when he made the plan and either stayed on that high until he was debended or didn't want to take back his order and make himself look foolish in front of the top brass. At the time he made the plan:
** He has his older brother - whom he always hated and was jealous of - in prison as a traitor and their father isn't around to protect him anymore.
** His son killed the Avatar, the only remaining threat to Fire Nation dominance.
** His daughter took over Ba Sing Se - the last major military stronghold resisting them - and brought an elite force in the Dai Li over to their side.
** He knows about his enemies' last throw of the dice to defeat him - the invasion on the Solar Eclipse - and has planned events in such a way that it is impossible for him to lose.
** Sozin's Comet is fast approaching which would make him and his army almost unstoppable.
* At the war meeting where he made the plan, he probably felt that he could do no wrong and that no matter what he did, he was going to end up as the supreme ruler of the world. So even if he didn't burn down the whole Earth Kingdom, it wouldn't have mattered anyway - he had already won and the Earth Rebellions could be wiped out at his leisure.
** He has his older brother - whom he always hated and was jealous of - in prison as a traitor and their father isn't around to protect him anymore.
** His son killed the Avatar, the only remaining threat to Fire Nation dominance.
** His daughter took over Ba Sing Se - the last major military stronghold resisting them - and brought an elite force in the Dai Li over to their side.
** He knows about his enemies' last throw of the dice to defeat him - the invasion on the Solar Eclipse - and has planned events in such a way that it is impossible for him to lose.
** Sozin's Comet is fast approaching which would make him and his army almost unstoppable.
* At the war meeting where he made the plan, he probably felt that he could do no wrong and that no matter what he did, he was going to end up as the supreme ruler of the world. So even if he didn't burn down the whole Earth Kingdom, it wouldn't have mattered anyway - he had already won and the Earth Rebellions could be wiped out at his leisure.
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* In the real world, the first inhabitants of Japan (what the Fire Nation is analogous to) were the Ainu people, who settled Japan during the Jomon period. Then in the Yayoi period, the ancestors of the modern Japanese people (the Yamato) came to Japan from Korea and/or China. This would make the Sun Warriors analogous to the Ainu and the "modern" Fire Nation people analogous to the Yamato.
** Considering the cultural similarities between Kyoshi Island and the Fire Nation, the people who displaced the Sun Warriors may have come from the peninsula that became Kyoshi Island.
** Considering the cultural similarities between Kyoshi Island and the Fire Nation, the people who displaced the Sun Warriors may have come from the peninsula that became Kyoshi Island.
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** Sozen did say in his letter that he spent the remainder of fis life hunting the avatar, if I remember correctly, likely what he was doing was hunting down the remaining nomads that weren’t at the temples.
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** Sozen Sozin did say in his letter that he spent the remainder of fis life hunting the avatar, if I remember correctly, likely what he was doing was hunting down the remaining nomads that weren’t at the temples.
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*** [[spoiler:Confirmed in LoK's third Book, where the end events of Book 2 create a whole new wave of airbenders.]]
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** Sozen did say in his letter that he spent the remainder of fis life hunting the avatar, if I remember correctly, likely what he was doing was hunting down the remaining nomads that weren’t at the temples.
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** Aforementioned ducks and clouds!
*** ''They'' sent the sky-bison water cloud to the Gaang in the desert, providing much-needed spiritual and hyrological nutrition.
*** ''They'' sent the sky-bison water cloud to the Gaang in the desert, providing much-needed spiritual and hyrological nutrition.
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** Aforementioned ducks and clouds!
butts!
*** ''They'' sent the sky-bison watercloud butt to the Gaang in the desert, providing much-needed spiritual and hyrological nutrition.
*** ''They'' sent the sky-bison water
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[[WMG: The Air Nomad Genocide is not as difficult as some might believe it to be]]
If all Air Nomads are benders, then it wouldn't be so difficult for the Fire Nation to track down the ones that were in between temples the day of the genocide. Here's why: ''all Air Nomads are benders.'' What's the major signifying mark of an air bending master? ''Arrow tattoos.'' Even if all those travelling monks were able to swap their clothes and blend into the societies of whichever nation they were closest to, there was absolutely no way of completely hiding due to their permanent markings. Especially since it seems most Air Nomads mastered airbending in their mid to late teens (Aang was said to be very young when he earned his tattoos at age 12), they would have been part of that collection of travelling Nomads, since mainly children, elders, and Council members are depicted as staying in one temple for any extended period of time. Meaning that, even if they managed to blend in for a significant period of time, there's plenty of chances that they could have been discovered. Aang himself was discovered by two Fire Nation soldiers because he was swimming. Breeding between the scattered, hidden Air Nomads and their newly adapted-to cultures would be damn near impossible, unless they were trusting enough of their partner not to out them.
In that vein, it's very possible that Sozin had specifically hired fire benders to travel to major hubs such as Ba Sing Se or the Water Tribes to wait for Sozin's Comet to strike travelling air benders.
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[[WMG: The "you can keep the coppers" Fire Nation officer was being pragmatic instead of a JerkAss.]]
Considering the [[Ruritania general economy of the area]], only the coppers wouldn't be some impure alloy mishmash, instead being completely copper. This means that the officer ([[HiddenDepths who is presumably from a well-to-do family, and therefore educated enough to know what the coins are worth]]), knew full-well what the level of taxation would do to the village (You know, unless they planned to burn the whole place down and therefore didn't care what the inhabitants would have to deal with, but who in their right mind would do that?), and was smart enough to make sure that the economy didn't take a huge hit by systematically under-reporting how much money the village had, considering that this was going to probably become a Fire Nation military personnel retirement home eventually.
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* Tengriism (the traditional religion of a good amount of the people of the Steppe) also has a lot of sky-based symbolism, making this even more appropriate. Also, this would be a much more interesting WMG if the Airbender-Mongols had benders in their ranks, rather than being entirely non-benders, since it gives them the opportunity to [[UpToEleven improve upon]] the Mongol's infamous archery skills by {{Roboteching}} arrows mid-flight using airbending. Perhaps a SequelSeries will explore this idea, with an emphasis on airbending villains to contrast with the main series' emphasis on firebending villains and WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra's emphasis on waterbending villains. Of course, it would have to be a {{Prequel}} or {{Interquel}}, since an army of NotQuiteDead airbending [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy Mongols]] would be defeated laughably easily by the tech present in Korra's time.
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* Tengriism (the traditional religion of a good amount of the people of the Steppe) also has a lot of sky-based symbolism, making this even more appropriate. Also, this would be a much more interesting WMG if the Airbender-Mongols had benders in their ranks, rather than being entirely non-benders, since it gives them the opportunity to [[UpToEleven improve upon]] the Mongol's infamous archery skills by {{Roboteching}} arrows mid-flight using airbending. Perhaps a SequelSeries will explore this idea, with an emphasis on airbending villains to contrast with the main series' emphasis on firebending villains and WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra's WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra's emphasis on waterbending villains. Of course, it would have to be a {{Prequel}} or {{Interquel}}, since an army of NotQuiteDead airbending [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy Mongols]] would be defeated laughably easily by the tech present in Korra's time.
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This show and ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' show you can be greedy, materialistic, or evil and still be a bender while decent and spiritual people can be nonbenders. Perhaps, long before Aang's time, the Air Nomads [[TheSpartanWay killed non-bender babies]], resulting in a small all-bender society.
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This show and ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' show you can be greedy, materialistic, or evil and still be a bender while decent and spiritual people can be nonbenders. Perhaps, long before Aang's time, the Air Nomads [[TheSpartanWay killed non-bender babies]], resulting in a small all-bender society.
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[[WMG: The airbenders prior to the series had no concept of family.]]
It's a bit of Main/{{Fridge Logic}} where exactly young airbenders come from, as there seems to be no airbenders outside the temples. Therefore, I posit that all airbenders were obligated to reproduce, and it didn't matter with whom. Once airbender children are born, they are raised by the entire community, and every adult is responsible for every child equally. Aang broke this tradition with Katara, and [[spoiler: The new Air Nation]] will likely leave this behind, as a good deal of influence from other cultures will pour into it.
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[[WMG:The Air Nomads weren't all airbenders because of their spirituality.]]
This show and ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' show you can be greedy, materialistic, or evil and still be a bender while decent and spiritual people can be nonbenders. Perhaps, long before Aang's time, the Air Nomads [[TheSpartanWay killed non-bender babies]], resulting in a small all-bender society.
This show and ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' show you can be greedy, materialistic, or evil and still be a bender while decent and spiritual people can be nonbenders. Perhaps, long before Aang's time, the Air Nomads [[TheSpartanWay killed non-bender babies]], resulting in a small all-bender society.
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* Once Katara leaves, the Southern Water Tribe has no Water Benders. By this logic, the Southern Water Tribe isn't really part of the Water Tribes.
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*** Sorta Confirmed in The Legend Of Korra, though I don't know if it's karma or spirits or whatever...that part wasn't really explained.
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