The Secret History of Firebending

[@HelloFutureMe]

Also y'know Patreon money make a living wooooh thank you ❤ ultimate chad move only cool people click this link www.patreon.com/hellofutureme

[@elaqgarahulelpon1479]

Ok Professor Wang heheheqwhewehhewhewwhe Wang.

[@shadowofchaos8932]

Where do I go to register for this course?

[@marocat4749]

Nooo, dont teach red firebending. yiou cant imaginw what could happen, and cool, hr buddy th waterbender exchange student :P Anyway , noo hr chaos is too strong.

[@bryanmcclure2220]

Is this made up or from the comics?

[@ursaanny]

kokokjhkgikl

[@jessetorres8738]

For the longest time, I thought the Footloose parody episode where young Fire Nation students weren't allowed to dance was just filler, but rewatching this episode where Aang & Zuko met the last 2 dragons & danced with them made me realized that by suppressing dance also meant the Fire Nation was unintentionally suppressing a key aspect of fire bending.

[@twon1582]

You just turned a switch on in my brain dawg

[@joshdunne8792]

Trust me there is no filler in Avatar the Last Airbender, in my opinion ATLA is perfect ❤

[@jennifervan75]

*allowed And omg you're right

[@singletona082]

I suspect it was not accidental. Reject any Way but the ultra nationalistic Ultra Milliteristic Way where Fire is brought through Anger. This other path is anethima to the rhetoric being pounded into their heads. So it must be expunged.

[@abrahamlincoln1600]

Dang. That’s true. And deep. 😭

[@OverlySarcasticProductions]

READY FOR CLASS! -B

[@poenpotzu2865]

Great to see you guys❤

[@annejia5382]

aaaay totally unexpected ❤ great to see you here ❤

[@KravenErgeist]

Miss Aka and Master Ao. Clever. ^_^

[@Vassilinia]

I loved seeing Blue's extreme eagerness to study firebending history in the first 10 seconds of the video. 😂

[@FlyingFairyS2]

I was in shock when I saw red there

[@TheTaleFoundry]

I never miss a W. Fire lecture. Truly the top of this university's alumni.

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

Eyyyyyyy! It's Tale Foundry!

[@pyeitme508]

Yo 🤘😊

[@HOLDENPOPE]

seems the world of Avatar has become advanced enough for robots

[@BolasMinion]

I immediately paused when I spotted you among the students at the beginning so that I could reply to your comment without missing any of the video.

[@onionwielder9728]

We all know the secret history of firebending- Firebending was created by a man named Wang Fire, and his wife Sapphire Fire. They could have ruled the world from the start, but they decided not to because Wang is such a nice guy. Instead, Wang became a therapist and a Fire nation cop and raised an excellent dancer. A true chad.

[@LuisSierra42]

Flameo Hotman

[@joshhorley2116]

because you described Wang as a Chad I assume you mustn’t have intended to write cop and instead meant cropper implying he was both a therapist and agricultural worker because as we all know, a fire nation cop is a facist who doesn’t even have the basic competence to join the fire nation military

[@onionwielder9728]

@@joshhorley2116 No, I meant cop. Wang Fire almost arrested that guy who 'hit Toph with his carriage."

[@emblarovardotter]

@@onionwielder9728 soo not a Chad then

[@MCGreggy28]

Go to your room!

[@anivijudi]

"academically named 'Detonation Bending' but you may know it more colloquially as 'Combustion Bending'" me: No, I'm pretty sure it's called "Sparkysparkyboom Bending", like 99% sure.😁 Also Blue's excited eyes as they are about to start a History lesson are perfection.

[@TornadicTitan17]

I love how Blue is drawn with super-excited eyes at the start of the video. History nerds unite!

[@adilrahman6881]

Also the stack of books. Man is ready!

[@milliebolin1663]

I absolutly love this format. Explaining the history of combustionbending through a college level history class bypasses the awkwardness of talking to a camera about fantasy history perfectly. Aswell as being paired with the excellent writing it is genuinly enthralling. Could you make the written script available? I would love to use parts of this seminar in a Avatar Legends TTRPG game.

[@niccoloparker3548]

What Avatar books is this based of? Is this part of the series?

[@ParameterGrenze]

I usually love his stuff but I can’t stand this firenation future university format. Won’t watch this vid for it.

[@Veerim]

​@@niccoloparker3548most of this comes from the Dawn of Yangchen. The rest draws from the combustion bending appearances in the TV shows.

[@valentin7541]

@@ParameterGrenze are you kidding? This way of doing it is much more interesting that the overtunes classic way to talk about theories and worldbuilding, what do you not like about this format?

[@ethanmcneilly1032]

Is this confirmation that Sokka never died, he just went forward in time to become a professor?

[@thalmoragent9344]

Would've been an interesting story for sure 😅 though, that means that he sat by and let the world go to scraps and didn't bother to even drop by to say "hi".

[@zoro115-s6b]

Sokka would never claim non-benders can't fight benders, he's living proof that isn't true.

[@wtr3059]

I think Wang here was named after the legendary Wang Fire, not sure what the Great inventor Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe has to do with that. I mean Wang had a Beard, Sokka had not.

[@mbedj1974]

Time bending confirmed ?!

[@trainknut]

One of the most underrated aspects of Avatar’s world building is the _lack_ of history the Fire Nation has. There’s something so offputting, unsettling, about the thought that we don’t actually know where the firebenders came from, what they did before the genocide, or how their culture evolved and changed over time. Not because they haven’t bothered to write lore for the fire nation but precisely the opposite, the lack of history is _intentional_ - the reason their history is so ambiguous is because they *_burned every book written before the 100 year war_*

[@maxsync183]

i wonder if the intention is that fire is an element that is associated with intensity of emotions and immediacy of results. i feel like that would naturally be something that people who act impulsively and are prone to doing more than others would to get ahead would pick up easier. that would lead to a nation of people that by and large would be more predisposed to rash decisions which lead to atrocities which lead to book burnings and history erasure. idk, it starts sounding kind of racist if you think about that interpretation for too long lol.

[@daylightcherry950]

I do get what you’re saying but I think that we do know a good amount of fire nation history before the war. I would argue that we know more about Fire Nation history than Water Tribe history.

[@maxsync183]

@@daylightcherry950 I think water tribe history is generally kept orally and not written down or made into statues or tapestries to the extent that fire nation history is, probably just due to how impractical that would be to do in a place that's constantly changing.

[@DamienZshadow]

Book burning takes on a whole new president when you can literally bend fire.

[@DamienZshadow]

​@@daylightcherry950And that is less about intention and more about their spiritual inclinations. The Fire Nation is far more intentional about their censorship. The Water Tribe just never bothered to record anything beyond oral traditions and myths as far as we can tell.

[@M4TCH3SM4L0N3]

Had to wait for you to post this on KZbin so I can say how much fun this format is for delivering this kind of information! It is so much fun and I loved how you snuck in other creator "avatars" into the classroom!

[@availanila]

And their voices in the interaction. 😮 Wonderful!!

[@billyalarie929]

THIS IS SO CREATIVE AND BEAUTIFUL

[@M4TCH3SM4L0N3]

@@availanila you're wonderful!

[@M4TCH3SM4L0N3]

@@billyalarie929 YOU'RE CREATIVE AND BEAUTIFUL!

[@kuroazrem5376]

Dude, Avatar studios should just hire you to expand their worldbuilding. The work you do is amazing.

[@AfricanH3ro]

All of this is actually canon lore from the Yangchen novel or the tabletop game iirc.

[@georgeevans9044]

​@@AfricanH3ro thanks! I've been trying to figure out if it was canon

[@wafflingmean4477]

In retrospect it makes a lot of sense that P'Li was significantly weaker than Combustion Man (although she did seem capable of more precise blasts, being able to curve the beam once it fired). She wasn't broken as thoroughly, and she speaks with Zahir about how she was rescued from whatever organisation made her. Therefore she lacked the focus required to produce blasts on the power level of Combustion Man.

[@Soulz_Samurai]

When you are more invested in a fictional college course than your actual college course

[@brycedunlap298]

Well played with the framing here. It’s almost as of project unanimity was inspired by the story of unit 731. Very clever to play into that

[@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773]

I absolutely love this style of Avatar history videos! I think it's legit my personal head cannon that these lectures actually happened in universe! This one on the Fire Nation and Fire Bending are particularly facinanating! :)

[@jessetorres8738]

1 interesting thing I like about The Avatar And The Fire Lord is the way it shows how wars can start over small things that get worse over time. Originally, Fire Lord Sozin just wanted to expand the Fire Nation beyond its borders, but Avatar Roku was against the idea. After Sozin let Roku die, Sozin decided to hunt down the Airbending Avatar to speed up the Avatar Cycle to bring forth the next Firebending Avatar so they could help the Fire Nation with their expansion. But since Sozin could never find Aang since he was frozen in the iceberg, the hunt became a century long war that spread throughout the entire Earth Kingdom. Meanwhile, multiple generations of Firebenders were raised to believe the war was justified since it was for the good of the Fire Nation, while multiple generations of Earthbenders grew up losing hope that the war would ever end.

[@jennifervan75]

And the attempted elimination of waterbending

[@joelsasmad]

HelloFutureMe did a whole video breaking down how there was alot of build up of events from even the previous avatars that eventually led to war beyond just Sozin wanting to expand and even how he came to that idea in the first place.

[@joelsasmad]

Look up "How did the Fire Nation let the Air Nomad genocide happen" and go to 3:40. History is made of economics and cultural change, forces greater than the am idioms of one man.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Honestly why is the Avatar even against the Fire Nation 🏛 attacking Earth Kingdom nations 🏛🏛🏛, when the Earth Kingdom nations do the same thing 🏛🏛🏛 with no hard no? Like, pick a lane 🛣, ya know.

[@soccerandtrack10]

Mongolia threw bodies at a enemy on an island and accidentily genicided everywhere because of the black plague, then euope went crazy/chose anti jewish/racism,then they went to war with the world. mongolia was just fighting,they wanted to kill only the island because it wasnt scared of mongolia and mongolia rule them.(i dont if they did the same thing gangus kawn did for stratigy.)

[@relariis_the_paradox]

I haven't read the Yang Chen books so I wasn't familiar with this, but whether Tim framed it with unit 731 parallels or it was written with those parallels in mind is very interesting. Being unfamiliar with the in-universe names that were relevant, I kept questioning whether the names were supposed to be metaphors for the names of the project directors

[@akrinornoname2769]

THERE ARE YANGCHEN BOOKS?

[@BillErak]

@@akrinornoname2769 2 Kyoshi novels: The Rise of Kyoshi and The Shadow of Kyoshi, and 2 Yangchen novels: The Dawn of Yangchen and a yet untitled sequel.

[@jessetorres8738]

There is a fan theory that some Airbenders did in fact survive the Fire Nation's attack on the 4 Air Temples 100 years ago & chose to hide within the Earth Kingdom. 1 of the Avatar comics written while the show was airing validates this as it takes place around the time they visit the Northern Air Temple & it shows Aang finding a cave full of Airbending artifacts implying at least a few survived but sadly after 100 years Aang is the only Airbender still alive.

[@jennifervan75]

Which comic?

[@rpgsprenkeldemon3704]

theres a loss episode of atla where ang finds airbending relics in a mountain to walk into a fire nation trap, meaning some airbenders escaped and the fire nation were hunting them down

[@cirthador1453]

@@jennifervan75 Lost Tales

[@jennifervan75]

@@cirthador1453 thank you

[@availanila]

I don't think people really take this theory seriously. I don't think the know exactly how hard it would be to eradicate a thriving people. There's no way Aang would be the the only survivor. Worst case scenario they intermarried and can at best do the blood quantum thing. Which would perfectly explain their benders coming out of the harmonic convergence.

[@EnergiaRocket]

So glad to see this format again, hopefully more lectures by Wang Fire in the future :)

[@thebrawler4486]

I love these types of episodes. I mean I love everything you to put out but these have a special place in my heart. Your on writing episodes do too. I’ve probably watched everything you’ve released at least twice, but I’ve watched on writing in its entirety at least six times.

[@brandonhann1508]

As a history teacher myself, I always warn my students to not look at it through rose colored glasses lest they take the wrong lessons from it. You're bit at the end really spoke to me.

[@jessetorres8738]

There needs to be a prequel series that shows more of the lives of the 6 Avatars who came before Aang & Korra. These 6 Avatars are Roku (Fire), Kyoshi (Earth), Kuruk (Water), Yangchen (Air), Szeto (Fire), & Salai (Earth). I like how the novels & comics have given them more backstory but I want to see them all in an actual show.

[@jennifervan75]

Which comics and novels? I want to read them. Especially about Kuruk

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@jennifervan75 2 Kiyoshi novels and 1 Yangchen novel

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@jennifervan75 there are The Last AirBender comics and Legend of Korra comics

[@jennifervan75]

@@oleksandrbyelyenko435 thank you

[@Illier1]

Well Kyoshi and Yangchen's novels have been massively more adult than the original series and Legend of Korra. Itll be a much harder sell for creators to pitch an adult show from a traditional children's franchise.

[@IndustrialQueue]

Between the cameos, the excellent analysis of the topic and the gathered and invented “history” of the retelling of the topic, this is truly masterful work. It also features a sort of dark mirror quasi-success-story of the recent Japanese war crimes video essay that shows what those individuals were wanting to find, but never did. Man, top tier KZbin. Excellent job.

[@JustJen1386]

The fact that Red and Blue are gunners in this fictional class is so accurate it hurts

[@urban_lioness]

I absolutely love this format! As much as I'm sure you don't necessarily need more, won yourself a sub. I hope you make more of these. ❤

[@hellNo116]

damn!!!! that was really great and really in the spirit of the series. using the allegory to talk about our own world. this is great material

[@personalgamedevyt9830]

I really enjoyed the collaboration between everyone. It was awesome hearing you, Red, Blue, Murphy, and others act in this video. I read the Yangchan novel a year ago, and I love rehearing what happened in different perceptions.

[@personalgamedevyt9830]

Also since I didn't watch the video but rather listened the first time, I watched some parts of the video now and I really appreciate you citing your sources at the bottom of the video clips! I love the dynamic with the content creators as fictional characters injected into this world, but I also like that what your lecturing is actual canon to the series.

[@AvatarWindy]

I LOVE THIS FORMAT SO MUCH THANK YOU TIM

[@SylviaRustyFae]

The format truly is awesome, it actually makes it easier for me to hyperfocus on heh

[@FalseBoB]

This format is fantastic! Love all the "students" coming together for this video. 👏🏽👏🏽

[@Astermisten]

Saw it on Nebula, but since there is no comment function there, I had to come here to gratulate you! This is a fascinating and creative way of talking about Avatar as a work of art and about human history and society, and it is art in itself, too. I love it, please make more like this!

[@86fifty]

0:58 - "turn to page 394" ehhh, I got that reference! 3rd Harry Potter movie, when Snape swooped in to Defense Against The Dark Arts to cover for Moony, sorry, Professor Wolf, sorry, Professor LUPIN.... who was out that day cuz of the full moon :P

[@canucksfan25]

I love seeing all these huge passion projects you're working on Tim. Amazing work, I can see the heart and effort you've put into these long videos. Thank you!!

[@copiouscopium9687]

This is such a brilliant way of presenting these kinds of lore videos. I’d love to see more, even for other settings, in this kind of in-world lecture style.

[@The_Nuttman]

I love this history of avatar from the perspective of students learning history in college. I didn't know what I was expecting when I clicked on the video but this was a nice suprise!

[@writererics]

Oooh tracing a magic system through history to highlight cultural and economic impacts on the modern day? Sign me up.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

I loved all of this and absolutely enjoyed how you had yourself up there educatin a class of other youtubers that make similar content The classroom structure also seemed to hack my AuDHD brain a bit and make this far easier for me to focus on, esp bcuz it was combined with bein a special interest; Avatar lore (honestly prty much any grt animated show (mostly only watch animated shows, so those are all the grtest shows ive watched prty much) ive seen i SI over lore/analysis of)

[@graphitenotwo]

Please do more of this. Coming from a long time fan this is incredibly refreshing

[@OptimusOmega6]

Literally just finished reading Dawn of Yangchen yesterday so seeing this video show up in my feed was a delight and a half to say the least.

[@cedarwood931]

I just finished The Legacy of Yangchen, and this was a delightful recap of many of the historical events that surround the duology. Also, loved the cameo appearances (audiations?) from Merphy and Daniel - thanks for putting this together, Tim!

[@sentinelstorm487]

WOW. That kind of in-depth connections to show how combustion-bending was first discovered - the politics, the motives, the coverup - are incredibly well done. It’s deeply inspiring to view, and gives me that much more drive on my own worldbuilding. Thank you for your amazing work as always!

[@kidagirl99]

I love this style of video so much. Tim, please continue making them. They fill that need to sit in a class and listen that I always have.

[@unhumanized]

I really enjoyed the format of this video as an academic look at the history and impacts these events had.

[@lyrainealei7848]

I love these In Universe Lectures, just love them and adore them.

[@AngDevigne]

Damn. This was impressive. Engaging. Where were these kind of history lessons when I was in college? 😅 Well done.😊

[@KDMSHOWCASE]

MORE PLEASE

[@martinpat94]

I love this style of video. I hope you can do more like it, but I know they can be a lot to manage so if you can’t that’s cool. Love all your essays on this world, makes me appreciate all the effort put into it all the more

[@B.coffin]

Love this lecture format!

[@geographicallymapping3948]

I can see the links between this combustion bender facility you describe and the Japanese one in Manchuria in your previous video. Nice work Tim.

[@Natsu_drippin]

I really love your channel. I’ve been subscribed on both my accounts for a while now and I don’t comment on a lot of videos but your writing ability is top tier 🙌🏾

[@davidhowell8407]

I absolutely love the concept of these videos I wonder how hard it is to call yourself professor wangfire without giggling and also I see blue and red in the back of the class shout out to overly sarcastic productions

[@BaronVonDergner]

Waterbending specialists: "I can bend the water inside others' blood." Earthbending specialists: "I can bend the earth in both metal and lava." Firebending specialists: "I am a human-shaped M119 105mm howitzer."

[@devonbroome7932]

Bringing up the water drop torture theory on the Combustion Benders, it makes sense why when they are struck on their 6th eye tattoo it distrupts their bending. It may be resurfacing the memory of that torture causing self destructive action to happen

[@jdcienfuegos]

Yangchen being born in 500 BG is a fanon thing from a fanfic, not canon information, though. Anyway, the work in this video is superb. Love when you talk about Avatar lore.

[@kenocasio5753]

Hey Tim I just wanted to reach out and say thank you. Been watching your channel for years and can genuinely say it’s made me a better writer. Recently got accepted to NYU’s Dramatic Writing MFA program but I recall and remain grateful for the foundation you helped lay. Especially with world building.

[@annejia5382]

The cameos!!!! 😭 Tale Foundry, Merphy, The Green Goblin and Overly Sarcastic 💚💚💚💚💚

[@NicolaZetroc]

This video was amazing, The whole aspect approach as a class of individuals who have monitored things in a fictional world, and explained to one another as reality for your world, was an amazing concept, and I loved it. Please make more like this for other media

[@lucysmith7658]

Loved this lecture style! My essay will be ready soon sir!

[@melimsah]

I love that Blue and Red are students

[@crimsonpresents]

I love this format! Didn’t realize that Combustion Bending was so traumatizing. Also nice to see Red and Blue

[@Kaijugan]

The way Blue's eyes lit up the MINUTE history was mentioned had me rolling! 🤣

[@calladricosplays]

It's quite the experience watching this after your video on war crimes and tasting history's video on dutch food in Japan. Thanks for sharing, as always, and I loved seeing Benji in class!

[@purplejack2020]

My theory is that Prof. Fire is actually the second avatar after Korra, Avatar Wang and is hellbent on demistifying and dismantling the personality cult around himself and his forebearers because he knows firsthand how the avatar is nothing more than a human with flaws and way too much raw power

[@packman2321]

Honestly, bending and social mobility sounds like a fun topic. I could definitely go in for a critical reading of military-spirtual complexes in the Four Nations during the war.

[@amandah.3630]

Absolutely amazing video. As a fan of a lot of these writing channels, I absolutely loved all the care put into the other KZbinr cameos.

[@WarriorVVanaB]

This format of video is amazing. I hope you do more of this

[@sagethemage504]

If I'd had a teacher this interesting in high school, I would have fought harder to keep from dropping out.

[@hayscollins5867]

PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU MAKE MORE OF THESE I NEED MORE.

[@ambero8726]

Wonderful format here Tim. Always enjoy a guest lecture. Keep up the brilliant work. Till the next one☕

[@ivancionti3769]

omg i'm a whole minute in and realise both of my favorite channels are in this together

[@roboraptorwolf9726]

It’s back! Fire Republic University is back!

[@beachwitch89]

Excuse me, professor? I'm struggling to focus on my note taking because I can't help but notice each little tiny reference in your lecture and it's making me do a 🌟nostalgia🌟

[@josiahbrondyke]

I appreciate the other you tubers as students. I like y’all.

[@billyalarie929]

This format is immediately a new favorite, holy shit. I don’t know wtf it is but I am ABSOLUTELY ENTHRALLED by it.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

This was the most interesting way to present lore. By presenting it in the form of a lecture. Really well done.

[@13KuriMaster]

Woo, really like these lecture-style videos.... it's fun to imagine them happening in-universe. Any chance we can get a playlist made for all of them? (asking in case I missed one)

[@jacewhite8540]

Love the new style

[@rowanl3059]

HFM I think this is one of my favorite videos from you like 10/10 would 100% pay for more

[@jakefisher3328]

Hey, hi. My man! My man? This shit, is my shit. Please do more of this kind of content. I'd love learning about all kinds of nerdy lore from from you, Professor.

[@DJ_Drakon]

This is so fascinating and i love how this is formatted like a classroom

[@phoenixgruber2942]

These classroom recordings are great, please do more of them! Professor Fire is such a good teacher!

[@jessetorres8738]

A lot of fans complain that the Lion Turtle is a deux ex machina since he comes out of nowhere to give Aang a new power, but that's not true. In what is probably the best example of subtle foreshadowing from this show, we did see drawings & sculptures of Lion Turtles throughout the show, & there were mentions of animals being the original benders, so the Lion Turtle being the source for this power Aang needed to defeat Ozai was built up in a way no one expected but works within the show's lore.

[@prronce]

That is still, by definition, a deus ex machine. If you're curious about the definition, check out Overly Sarcastic Productions' Trope Talk video on it, it does a good job.

[@rpgsprenkeldemon3704]

i only remember the lion turtle being in the library, where else is it?

[@XavionofThera]

I mean, the world is full of hybrid animals. There were no hints that Lion Turtles were these ancient, god-like beings. It still is a bit of a deus ex machina. That said, the deus ex machina isn't used to beat Ozai - Aang already had two natural opportunities to do that he didn't take. It's just used to give Aang a way to not kill him, which I think makes it a lot more palatable.

[@jordancrouch3626]

This is a fantastic format, very listenable and engaging. Loved it.

[@casualcraftman1599]

Yangchen defeated the combustion benders with the suffocation technique Zaheer used to kill the Earth Queen. Yangchen only made them faint and made sure no was around to see her use that air bending move.

[@singletona082]

Terrifying, and while none would have faulted her in the moment. Everyone would see that this is proof that airbenders CAN be lethal thus any goodwill they have with the other nations would be gone.

[@casualcraftman1599]

@@singletona082 Sozin somehow knew about it and was able to use it as propaganda. In the comic Katara and the Pirate's Silver, Team Avatar captures a fire nation solider and the fire nation solider was paranoid that Aang was going to kill him with asphyxiation and kept saying this propaganda about air nomads where evil that killed with asphyxiation.

[@singletona082]

@@casualcraftman1599 I mean it is logicaly something airbenders can DO, plus Sozin knew Roku, had worked with him trained with him and even Fought him. So he would know what was possible even if it was never done. Maybe Roku confessed a fear of his. A nightmare from a prior life. Or Sozin made it up and unknowingly hit on somethign that was possible.

[@wafflingmean4477]

I love your little hints at this modern day Avatar world your lectures take place in. Things like firearms reducing the importance of bending, causing its remaining importance to be focused on tradition or spectacle. And it makes sense that the Four Nations would begin to break up to a degree, given that by the end of Legend of Korra, Prince Wu was convinced (by his own behaviour) that the monarchy was a flawed system and that the Earth Kingdom should become democratic, and the tensions between the Northern and Southern Water tribes meant an official separation was only a matter of time. On top of that, the heir to the throne of the Firelord (Iroh junior) was a general in the army of the United Republic, not the Fire Nation military, which may indicate he also was more favourable towards democratic governance.

[@jaqx2]

Anyone else wanting to see a video about bending as social mobility? Because I do!

[@Vickyeverythingelsewastaken]

Hell yes! Benders are incredibly privileged. I hate how Legend of Korra sort of handwaved the inequality aspect for non-benders by making them "too radical". Having a whole skillset available to some but not to others is a huge problem, especially in a capitalist society.

[@mathieuleader8601]

love all the crossover cameos

[@themythosarchives7520]

OSP, Daniel Greene (with a knife for his microphone), Merphy, and Tale Foundry. Love this class.

[@muddlewait8844]

Thank you!

[@lasercraft32]

I like how the Tale Foundry robot guy just sits there and doesn't even move. Are we sure he's even awake/turned on? XD

[@lundylow]

This feels like a pitch to Michael and Bryan to be a part of their upcoming projects. I'm here for it.

[@oatmeallemons9676]

I love these videos sm. It's so cool to see really interesting takes on Avatar and history merged into this sort of wonderful worldbuilding soup. Let's go Wang Fire.

[@kovaxim]

You did not just come to teach a class and your name is Wang Fire... I am loving this already.

[@Swishy_Blue]

Gotta love a crossover ! Woohoo !

[@HQofrandom]

If anyone hasn't checked out the new avatar books you're doing yourself a huge disservice, might be my favourite avatar content next to the OG show

[@viciouskoala2163]

This was awesome I have always been intrigued by combustion bending and the cameos were an absolute tripped

[@linkgrinmbn]

Absolutely love this video format

[@thalmoragent9344]

I've wondered how the Noble Families, as well as the Royal Family, handled all these aspects of their element. And it's interesting how some people in this world had the idea to push the limits of Benders (or more importantly, their Chi) to see what they could create. The "science", or "biology" of Bending and Benders themselves was put to the limit to create a new kind of bending, a sub-element. And of course, it was the Fire Nation that was behind such ingenuity. Their drive to push the biological, mental, or technological boundaries likely derives from their element of fire, an element that helps not only to destroy but to create. Lightning Bending, Combustion Bending, Dragonriders... all this makes Fire Nation history far more interesting to me. Did we have any Fire Benders that claimed to be the "Blood of the Dragon", I wonder 😅 or perhaps "Blood of the Phoenix", or something. Maybe bonding with a Dragon is something that requires "Dancing", as in, make peace with a Dragon and then in order to bond with it, you've gotta dance with them, and if you mess up, the Dragon gets upset and may or may not try to kill you 👀

[@berengustav7714]

Considering HBO'S House of Dragons did so well,I hopeNetflix and Avatar Studios will make Fire Nation prequels.

[@mastermind9393]

This was not the avatar video i expected, but it was the avatar video i needed.

[@Broockle]

wtf, this is amazing. It's pretty much all on actual sources too. The level of detail with how the world interacted had me completely engaged 😀

[@rainfallen7574]

Interesting I see this video recommended to me after you did your video on the covered up history of Japan. It's hard not to see parallels between the two after that