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@Zelosse, I can picture Zeke being his artist self, the Felix shouts or snaps at him.

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@CollectorOfMyst@AllHollowsEve You're both right. The lion turtles granted the ability to bend, but the "totems" (moon, dragons, sky bison, badgermoles) provided a way to refine the bending ability. Wan got fire from the lion turtle, but became an expert by learning from a dragon.

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@December@AllHollowsEve Amon was using chi-blocking principles applied through bloodbending (which hopefully is a forgotten art). So I'd assume he was applying the necessary pressure to chi points with the person's own blood. The lion turtles directly manipulated chi, so the healing (Korra's cure for Amon's technique) was likely strengthening the natural healing process.

You're very likely to see more environmentally friendly technology when the environment can physically and loudly object. I reckon the cars would still be internal combustion, but likely our level or better of hybrid car rather than the 80s dirty cars.

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@December, Artificial bending would likely be a pipe dream. While the lightning gloves and the mechasuit's electrified bolas may hint towards an increased use of electric weaponry, a flamethrower would be nowhere near as versatile as true firebending, and practically useless against any firebender. Electrical weapons, after all, are difficult to handle. We've seen them fail to subdue people once, maybe twice, and Mako had Plot Armour. Any technology that would have to rely on "giant tanks" to replicate bending would be more of a liability than an asset. So I'd put my money on electricity or chi-blocking being the nonbender's weapon of choice against benders.

We already have tasers, so I'd say that either an equivalent or Asami's joybuzzer would be freely available to civilians as self-defense weapons. Ranged lightning, seen in LoK season 4, is a definite possibility, but on military mechasuits, which is incidentally the only place where I'd say a flamethrower would be at all practical in that world; after all, the tank would be protected and the pilot hopefully less likely to be killed by shrapnel. Explosives, sure, but industrial and military. _{Were there fireworks in LoK?}

In conclusion, I'd call it a possibility, but impractical. Unless it's electrical gloves or "bolt slingers".

Though, I'm not the GM. @candlelitcraft, what do you think?

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Thinking about this a little more, and extrapolating on the end of LoK, we might have winged 'jetpacks', civilian mechasuits, and maglev bullet trains as standard. Spirit Vine energy might be developed into a clean power source, or more likely abandoned/academic only after Kuvira blew a whole between dimensions accidentally, that technology taking a similar path to nuclear in our world. Cars would be probably still rely on internal combustion, if cleaner, and there would be a large-scale passenger airplane industry (KorraSato Airlines, anyone?).

They might skip guns, though, if only because bending and electrical 'tasers' were already in place and that was more or less accidental in our own timeline.

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@CollectorOfMyst Hardly. Republic City had an electrical power plant (supplemented by lightning benders), and there were internal combustion engines powering cars, trains and motorbikes. The early mecha suits and planes were also internal combustion engines, though I couldn't tell you what the later Earth Empire ones were powered by. If it's any -punk, it's dieselpunk, which is 1920s-1950s.

Given that Avatar Aang lived for just about 66 years, and that was young, we can safely say Korra's lifespan would be somewhere around 90-100 at most. Taking the earliest date (1920) and the youngest possible "old age" death for Korra, we're looking at roughly 2000-2010. If the Avatar world follows a similar technical path to our own, they have modern or better technology. If there isn't a major technological boost, like WW2, we're looking at 1980's level technology in Republic City, with other cities close to or equal that.

Avatar "Rosai", the earthbender after Korra, would live in a world not unfamiliar to people in their 20s or 30s grew up in. We'd have an Earth Federation (United States of Earth?), two independent water tribes, an Air Nomad society with nonbenders (classism?), a (partly speculation) Fire Nation grappling with constitutional monarchy, and a democratic United Republic. On top of that, you'd likely see an almost complete homogenization of bending, with your place of birth being almost entirely unrelated to the bending skill you possess. A firebender born at the South Pole, for example.

So if we go into the "next Avatar", we have to do our own worldbuilding. A unified idea of the world would help with that.

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@December, I do like the idea of neutral chi-blockers.

But what's our plot? Are we the new Team Avatar or a bunch of people in a (nearly) modern Republic City?

What was the rough tech level of Korra? 1940? Give that the average life of an Avatar, and we have near-future, actually.

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@CollectorOfMyst, Kyoshi's time. Chin the Conqueror is a ready-made villain and it's nice to have the Earth Kingdom (or part of it) as the villains.

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@candlelitcraft The Legend of Rosai, the sandbending Avatar.

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You also don't have to be a bender to have a good time.