Oathbound

GAH! Now I've got to hunt around and see if I can find it somewehere.

Hahaha! Albs indeed.

Nothin like the old days of patrolling Emain Macha, only to see an ocean of rednames pouring over the hills at you.

Fixed, for minor nitpick.

Benders can be born to non-benders, so it's more accurate to list their nationality than the particular bending style of their nationality.

Neither of Katara's parents were waterbenders, likewise neither of Toph's parents were earthbenders. Bonus points, neither of Korra's parents appear to be benders, and she's the Avatar.

Keep an eye out for the Weekend Superheroics threads. We discuss new episodes of Legend of Korra (among other things) there.


Aang was only able to resist Bloodbending by activating his Avatar state, though. Powerful waterbenders (such as Katarra) have also been shown to be able to break bloodbending.

While I could see Koh being behind it all, it also seems just a bit too obvious. (Mask = Koh)

Again, feel free to join in the weekly discussions, where the thread is less likely to get necro locked.

I could agree with that.... there's also another something something that was "leaked" () which could fit in with that theme.

Ultimately I think (hope) we'll get Nature Affinity (and less so Bio Armor) before Issue 24, though.

I'd actually be more inclined to ask for TF Penny to be changed to the Faultline model.

The Penny TF happens WITHIN the level range of the Faultline arcs, not after. You can literally finish the story arc with Child Penny in Faultline, pop over to IP and do Adult Penny's TF, then go back to Faultline to do Agent G's arc and run into Child Penny again.

It's a chronological clusterfrag.


Add to that, LGTF version of Penny should be replaced with her Adult version, and her dialog modified to fit in needed.

I rather like that actually. It lets me delve powers without cluttering up another channel that people might actually give a crap about.

It's also possible that Hama was a relatively weak waterbender who could only bloodbend with the full moon.

Where it's entirely possible that Katarra might have been able to, if she had ever been inclined to. She just never was, because she was horrified at it's use (and ultimately regretted using it the few times that she did).

It was already evident that Katarra was a much stronger waterbender, having been able to break Hama's bloodbending with no experience or practice with the technique.

Katarra (and the others) could simply have accepted Hama's implication that it could only be done under the full moon, because Katarra never cared to test that fact.

One really needs to include the next sentence of that post, because it was a continuation (explanation) of that statement.

Yes he was considered to be in his 60, but he wasn't. Since his time in stasis did count against his lifespan, it needs to be included when discussing the overall length of his life.

While he was considered to be in his 60s, he was actually in his 160s, so his life was not short for an Avatar. (If anything it's Avatar Roku who got shafted. He died at 70. The real 70. No stasis shenanigans.)

Just for full disclosure, I've never run the new Belladonna Vertano arc, so I was just basing my comment off the previous indication that War Witch appeared in it.

Aang was much older than 66. He may not have visibly aged while suspended in the Avatar state, but it did count against his lifespan.

If it were simply them not spoiling the show, they wouldn't have had to say -anything- about it.

There would simply have been no need for them to make up a smokescreen to hide anything. Particularly with the "word of god" about Aang's age.

He was old, he died, new Avatar.

It's The Magician's arc in Night Ward.

Indeed. Croatoa War Witch comes before Night Ward War Witch/Serene's Body. The arc includes discussion of her Croatoa spirit form (though you talk to her Pocket D form... since it's a co-op arc and Villains can't go to Croatoa).

The Belladonna Vertano arc should really have the Serene War Witch, though...

True enough, I had mentioned something similar in one of the previous threads, though I was discussing a "water tribe healer" rather than a Bloodbender. Still, Waterbender with intimate knowledge of human anatomy.

I could see it going either way.

It's possible also that he could remove her Water/Fire/Earth bending, but not her Airbending as she can't bend it yet... so she could still learn airbending after her encounter and possibly gain access to the avatar state. It'd be interesting to have an Avatar who was incapable of (most) bending unless in Avatar state.

There's also the possibility that Amon's Energybending simply won't work on Korra. Aang very nearly lost in the attempt to remove Fire Lord Ozai's bending, as willpower/spirit is a deciding factor.

"In order to bend another's life energy, [your] own spirit must be un-bendable, or [you] would be corrupted and destroyed."

I think ultimately her Avatar state kicking in at the last moment is most likely.

I really hope they don't do something silly like having Asami go off all scorned and break her father out of prison/join the Equalists or something.

I agree. It would have been easy enough for Lin to sense the side tunnel. I suppose maybe they thought it might seem repetitive to have Lin use her seismic sense three times during the same episode.

I find myself really liking Lin. This episode really let her bending shine during the escape scene. I really do like that they're finally letting lose with the old school bending.

Indeed. He doesn't have blood, he has oil!


I'm starting to think though that he's not human, but rather a spirit manifestation. Possibly Koh (though that seems too obvious, just due to the mask).

We know that Koh stole Avatar Kuruk's fiance's face as punishment for him not taking his Avatar role seriously enough... maybe Koh manifest as/created Amon as some sort of punishment for Korra's lack of spirituality?

Eh, I dunno. Seems convoluted at best.

Not as part of the customization no, but Titan Weapons and Water Blast's Water Jet must already have the tech required to have alternate sounds because they all have two animations (One shorter) which necessitates calling up an alternate set of sound files so that the sfx match up with the animation.

The groundwork for sound customization could well already be in place.

(I'm not saying it'd be easy, of course. I wouldn't know even if I could look at the game's code... cause that's all Greek to me anyhow.)

Yellow and Red are off-limits due to some crazy notion of it being used for urine or blood, highly saturated colors are just out because it makes the Ice look too much "like gems."

I think both of those arguments are hogwash, myself.

1) There's still other sets that you can use to approximate blood with.

2) Why *shouldn't* I be allowed to make my Ice look like gems? I can make fire into toxic clouds, or dark armor into sand armor or water armor, why does Ice HAVE to be Ice?