They cannot, however, pass on the genes they do not have.Įventually, however, all the bloodlines will mix as they have begun to in Korra (the nations, now at peace, have started fusing and their people intermixing), and all people will have the potential to be born benders of any single variety.īeing an avatar is purely spiritual, and cannot be 'passed on' as with normal bending genes. This assured that any Avatar was born to a member of a tribe that was known for a type of bending.įrom that point, we see that the Avatar will not only be merged with the spirit of Raava, but will also have the genes of a bender in their own right, (incidentally, it's impossible to tell if they're currently expressed, as the Avatar's bending comes from Raava) which can be passed on to their children. On the interesting end of things, the state of the Avatar franchise in the first two series had people who self-segregated into nations by the predominant bending ability. The merger of the first Avatar, Wan, with Raava allowed him and his reincarnations to bend multiple elements at once. Human spirits, on the other hand, can only hold one. Raava, being a spirit, is able to hold multiple bending arts at once. The Avatar does not have the genes to bend all the elements rather, as shown in The Legend of Korra, the Avatar's multi-bending is due to his or her spirit being merged with Raava, the Spirit of Light. TLDR No - because the Avatar doesn't have all the bending genes.

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