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** The truth about the ship is one thing; the truth about his own people, on the other hand...I'm not convinced that Aang will be able to hold up very well at discovering the truth about the Air Monks' past. Ty Lee went nuts when she thought Zuko was going to kill Azula, what she thinks is her and her people's best chance at life, and she's mindbent. If every element could heal, then there has to be a blood oath for the Air Nomads. Meaning there is something that can make them choke on the air they're breathing, and experience sickness, pain, and death. We just don't know what it is yet.

** Another fact has come to light as of chapter 57:

** Even if Aang does crack and gets trampled by all of those things, he's the Avatar, that means he's not just an Airbender, just like Roku couldn't get loyalty sickness, Aang won't be spiritually damaged if he goes against the Air Nomads or whatever.

 

** I don't think that that's Air in a nutshell. The Yamabushi are the ones who believe in finding their own Way; they are only one group of Air Nomads. Ty Lee prays to Tengri, and it can be deduced that so does the rest of her Clan, but the other groups don't seem to. The Touzaikaze seem to devote themselves to Sarasvati, their river spirit in the desert. However, there is a connection between all of these. There are different ways to do things, after all, different ways to go. Path. That's the best I can think of.

Way back in Chapter 9, when Zuko needs support from a representative of each of the elements to become a yaoren, there's this this exchange

If that's not Vathara being as blatant as she ever is, I'm not sure what could be. Fire is Honor, Water is Love, Earth is Compassion. Truth, which he still needs, which is lost and hidden and suppressed across the entire world, which needs to be brought back before the gigantic mess the world is in can be fixed, is Air. As for the different groups of air nomads believing different things, one of the major themes of this fic is that Truth is different for everyone.

 

 

* Chapter 60 confirms this. Just look at the way Aang and Sokka speak and act:

"This isn't about you." Aang almost jumped into a defensive stance. Sokka... Sokka sounded angry. Not just mad, in a who-ate-the-blubber-jerky way. Angry. }}

 

== High Court was the tongue of Air before it was Fire. ==

 

''Devoid of desire to hear or learn'', Sokka knew. ''Deserted. Desolate.'' }}