@eltunasremake I think its indirectly katara's fault. It's possible he heard about it because it was made illegal in the republic. Once the idea of bloodbending being possible becomes widespread it's not insane to think other skilled waterbenders would try to master it
@Rbunny27@rabitatsalem The water tribe castings are their own can of worms. Katara's actress was a nepo hire and they cast the rest of the southern tribe to match her
@ereboKinetic@Ciikorii@ficcyworld450 But even then, how true is that to the culture of his childhood? She was probably around 500ish years before gang's birth. If you wanted to spread the culture you grew up in, would you want someone from. 500 years ago?
@MangaMeathead@kauljade The earth kingdom is also so spread out and it's geography cuts off the capital in basically every direction from having quick communication across the continent so every state was more or less fighting the fire nation on their own since so many troops staying in ba sing se
@MangaMeathead@kauljade The industrial might of the fire nation still would've given them a huge advantage. Until the creation and spread of metal bending, fire benders were the best at metalworks.
@MangaMeathead@kauljade Yeah cuz the Dai Li are a great result Kyoshi's reforms. Every avatar makes mistakes, and even they can't see centuries ahead to what their actions will result in. All I'm saying is he caused problems he could still probably have helped differently
@C_o_r_nn I get that. There was probably a better design there, but I very much think it's part of the point that the original culture is gone-gone outside of tenzin