Would a subbranch of Airbending involve Gravity or Force Bending in anyway?
I don't see why. Those are completely unrelated things.
If by "Force" you mean fundamental forces of nature, lightning-bending would be the control of electromagnetism to an extent.
I'm really just spitballing based on the fact that 1.) Zaheer could fly (ala Superman) and 2.) I don't know how "Airbending" works.
1.) Zaheer didn't appear to be manipulating wind or air currents in order to fly, he appeared to be negating gravity somehow. A sort of counter-grav (Which made me think Honor Harrington's Tech from David Weber's Honorverse)
2.) Not knowing how Airbending works, are they generating "air currents or wind movement" ala Firebenders or only manipulating them ala Waterbenders?
Would Airbenders be impotent in a Vacuum, or could they somehow manipulate it in other ways?
I literally lack the terminology to express this with any scientific accuracy, but here goes...
My first guess was that they could manipulate unseen forces somehow to move the "Air" ala a "Force" of somekind but thinking it through and realizing that "air" is in fact a substance composed of various gasses I'm guessing they just manipulate the gasses itself.
If that's the case though, how does that work when there's a change in Standard Temperature and Pressure?
Water Benders can create ice like it's going out of style and change phase states at the drop of a hat. We know that Lava Bending is basically doing the same thing with earth?
So when air changes phase states would the Airbender lose control of the gases they were manipulating if say the gas condensed into a solid form, or could they say for example manipulate high-energy plasma?
I'm basically taking your idea of the Avatar Universe in the Far Future and trying to imagine the repercussions of a Fantasy/Magic based Technologically advanced Space Age FTL capable (maybe) type society, and how Bending might continue to be refined and specialized.
Would we have Airbenders who have somehow sub-specialized to work with Warp Plasma for example or Firebenders tending Cold-Fusion Power plants? Metal bending Engineers, Firebending Electrical Engineering specialists? Waterbending Brain Surgeons or Geneticists?
Hopefully you see where I'm going. Thoughts?
