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** Firebenders are incredibly sparse. The Fire Nation has more nonbenders than benders than any other nation, but anyone that can firebend is usually enlisted in the military. This is why it seems that they fight a large number of them, but you have to consider a few things. For the most part, there are maybe 1-2 firebenders in every vehicle crew. The airships are prime example of the ratio and the value of the firebenders; most of the crew consists of mechanics and other combat personnel, with only a few benders on staff on the exposed decks for the attacks. They would seem to consist of shock troopers and specialists, and don't seem to make up the bulk of the military by any stretch. |
** Firebenders are incredibly sparse. The Fire Nation has more nonbenders than benders than any other nation, but anyone that can firebend is usually enlisted in the military. This is why it seems that they fight a large number of them, but you have to consider a few things. For the most part, there are maybe 1-2 firebenders in every vehicle crew. The airships are prime example of the ratio and the value of the firebenders; most of the crew consists of mechanics and other combat personnel, with only a few benders on staff on the exposed decks for the attacks. They would seem to consist of shock troopers and specialists, and don't seem to make up the bulk of the military by any stretch. |
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* If Earthbenders can bend coal, can they bend petroleum? What about wood, which is what coal was? At which stage from wood to coal does the substance become bendable? For example, is peat bendable? What about other predominantly carbon-based substances? Can an earth bender bend dry ice? |
* If Earthbenders can bend coal, can they bend petroleum? What about wood, which is what coal was? At which stage from wood to coal does the substance become bendable? For example, is peat bendable? What about other predominantly carbon-based substances? Can an earth bender bend dry ice? CO₂? Furthermore, if sand is bendable, can glass be bended? What about calcium. Can an earthbender bend bones like he bends calcite and limestone? |
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** Good question. Earth bending is usually explained as the ability to control minerals to justify people bending stuff like gemstones and materials with mineral impurities like metal, but coal isn't a mineral and earthbenders can manipulate it anyway, so who freakin' knows? Whatever logic lets them bend coal should let them control all those other things too. Glass isn't a mineral anymore so I'd say no to that one, and bonebending would seem to work by the same principle as waterbending healing does (manipulating the element present within the human body to repair it), so I'd imagine that's a standard technique employed by earth nation doctors and combat medics for treating broken bones. |
** Good question. Earth bending is usually explained as the ability to control minerals to justify people bending stuff like gemstones and materials with mineral impurities like metal, but coal isn't a mineral and earthbenders can manipulate it anyway, so who freakin' knows? Whatever logic lets them bend coal should let them control all those other things too. Glass isn't a mineral anymore so I'd say no to that one, and bonebending would seem to work by the same principle as waterbending healing does (manipulating the element present within the human body to repair it), so I'd imagine that's a standard technique employed by earth nation doctors and combat medics for treating broken bones. |
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*** I have developed a rule about applying real-world science to bending: don't. Bending is based off eastern mysticism; trying to apply science to it just results in headaches. My definition of earthbending is, "If it's not alive, and can be found naturally in the earth, it falls under earthbending." They can bend coal because it's earth, they cannot bend wood because it's not earth (and it's a living thing). they can't bend processed metal because it's not naturally found in the earth, and the same goes for man-made glass too. Going by this definition, then yes, earthbenders can bend oil, because it's also a natural part of the earth. |
*** I have developed a rule about applying real-world science to bending: don't. Bending is based off eastern mysticism; trying to apply science to it just results in headaches. My definition of earthbending is, "If it's not alive, and can be found naturally in the earth, it falls under earthbending." They can bend coal because it's earth, they cannot bend wood because it's not earth (and it's a living thing). they can't bend processed metal because it's not naturally found in the earth, and the same goes for man-made glass too. Going by this definition, then yes, earthbenders can bend oil, because it's also a natural part of the earth. |
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