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Contents 1 National Emblem 2 Is there a Western Air Temple? 3 Merging 4 Move Airbender#Air Temple Fauna section into this article 5 Differentiating Air Nomads and Airbender articles 6 Are there any Airbenders here? 7 Female Airbenders 8 Color of the Elements 9 What Will Happen to the Avatar Cycle?

[edit] National Emblem

I have never seen that emblem before. Last time I remember it was three spirals. A Link to this emblem? Proof that it exists.

That is the icon for airbending, not the nomads.

I too don't remember ever seeing this flag. H2P ^{(Yell at me for what I've done)} 05:25, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

No the the icon is the three little circles, I have never seen this image in the show. Please provide proof, or it will be taken down for lack of citation.

[edit] Is there a Western Air Temple?

Is there any actual indications (from the show or Nickelodeon) that there is a western air temple? Looking at the map from the show opening, we see only three regions of land that are marked as white (Air Nomad territory). What appears to be a region of land above the fire nation is actually smoke rising from the volcanoes in the fire nation and the white land above that is probably the Northern Air Temple territory. I think that the Western Air Temple should be removed from this article until there is confromation that a Western Air Temple exists.

I have read that the Northern Air Temple exists within the large mountain range to the north in Earth Kingdom territory, as it is written on most maps (like the one on the right). I'm not sure if this is speculation or fact, but if so, then the land above the Fire Nation is most definitely the Western Air Temple candidate. Pictorally, even, this land seems more west than north. Another important detail that suggests that the Northern Air Temple is in Earth Kingdom "territory", or at least part of the same landmass, is that the Mechanist and the other refugees migrated there, most likely on foot. If it were in the white mountains to the NW on the map, it seems less likely that they would go to all that trouble finding a boat, etc., to seek refuge. --Tryforceful 06:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Well I think the white portions of the map are Air Nomad territory (is that an oxymoron?). So in that case I think there is probably at least air territory in all the locations. The only question is, is (was) there a temple in that territory H2P 06:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

At this site, it states that the Northern Air Temple is in Earth Kingdom territory, at least. --Tryforceful 18:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

According the 2005 Comic Con Avatar: The Last Airbender Panel with the show's creators, there are 4 Air Temples (North, South, East and West), and that the Northern and Southern Air Temples were exclusively male. While only three air temples are marked on current maps, if you watch the old Sneak Peek trailer for the show, it has a map in which the northern mountain in the Earth Kingdom is indeed marked as an Air Temple (see this screenshot of the trailer). Given this evidence, it's probably safe to say that the Northern Air Temple is located in the northern Earth Kingdom mountain range, while the Western Air Temple is the marked Air Temple right off the coast. –Prototime (talk • contribs) 19:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I thought the N and S Air Tempels were male. Atleast I think the southern one was, that's where Aang came from. H2P 19:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Quite right; I meant to say male. –Prototime (talk • contribs) 20:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging

I find no reason for the Airbender and Air Nomads to be merged unless we did it to each other nation and I don't think any of them need it. It would require link changes WAY too many times as well as a lot of work merging the two. H2P 06:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

That's not what I'm saying. See below two topics. --Tryforceful 06:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move Airbender#Air Temple Fauna section into this article

When talking in reference to the Air Temple, it seems more associated to the Air Nomads as a culture and nation than Airbenders in general, a people who do not necessarily need to inhabit the temples. Aang, as Avatar, is one example of an Airbender who doesn't permanently reside there, but there likely were others. The Airbender article contains information more on the people and the ability of Airbending than of places like the Air Temples. If merged, I'd intend that information to be mixed with the Airbending Animals section of this article. Also, see the next discussion topic below. --Tryforceful 06:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Agree, feel free to do it. We should mask all the bending arts and all the nations in the same kind of format. H2P 06:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Differentiating Air Nomads and Airbender articles

The two articles have a lot of information in common, which is thus redundant; it should be better delineated just what each article intends to elaborate on beyond the explicit definitions of Air Nomads and Airbenders. For example, both speak of the arrow tattoos and shaven heads of male monks. Suggestions below? Or else, what should be done? --Tryforceful 06:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Here is the problem, we don't KNOW hardly anything about the Air Nomads and barely know anything about airbending other than what Aang and Iroh have told us. The pages are going to be small unless we really start pulling in info from generalization of small pieces of info from the show. H2P 06:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I've heard that the Air Nomads were all Airbenders, but I don't have access to proof of this. -Ryuko 02:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are there any Airbenders here?

I'm one, You have to be born in fall to be an airbender. 4myself4 23:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

How so? if you look at the Zodiac, each astrological sign has it's own element attached to it which is how I based the userboxes. H2P ^{(Yell at me for what I've done)} 05:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Female Airbenders

There have been two female airbenders in the series so far. One of them was a past avatar and another one was called Sister Iio taken from the nick.com website.

[edit] Color of the Elements

I'm just wondering, The Water Tribe wear blue because the water looks blue, but the swamp water benders wear green, because the water looks green. So why do you Air Nomads wear Yellow, if you can't Air? Why don't they wear clear cloths (or no cloths)?

Well, nudity in frigid mountain tops isn't the best idea. And I doubt Nickelodeon would be very interested in a show with a 12 year old protagonists in transparent clothes.--Fyre2387 ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:30, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess you're right. Not to mention, Airbenders can glide and fly. I wonder how it would look if you had a who bunch of naked people flying around everyone where you all see them.

[edit] What Will Happen to the Avatar Cycle?

The Avatar Cycle goes in a continuous pattern: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. It is also established that Aang is the very last Airbender. So what will happen to the Avatar Cycle? Will it cease to exist, due to the fact that there are no more Airbenders?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kite.ryde (talk • contribs).

Quite simply, we don't know. Many theories exist, but none are official, and Wikipedia is not the place to speculate. Ask on an Avatar forum and you'll get a dozen different replies. If the show ever addresses the problem, we'll come back to it then. --Herald Alberich 23:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)