
These markings symbolize one's mastery of the airbending art and are given to a practitioner once their training is complete. It is also said that the airbenders borrowed the arrow mark from the flying bison for the design of their traditional tattoos. The bison typically use their massive beaver-like tail to create gusts of wind and, as the name suggests, can fly without any visible means of propulsion. After permanently leaving the care of the lion turtle, the former inhabitants eventually learned airbending from the flying bison, a sacred creature in the Air Nomad culture. The air lion turtle would bestow the power to control air onto those venturing into the Spirit Wilds.ĭuring the era of Raava, the power of air was temporarily bestowed on the inhabitants who lived on a giant lion turtle while they left the village to stock up on food.



The peaceful Air Nomads utilized this type of bending in their everyday lives.Īir is the element of freedom. Airbending, one of the four elemental bending arts, is the aerokinetic ability to control and manipulate air.
