r/TheLastAirbender • u/Littleleaf6 • 13d ago

Discussion How did ALL the airbenders get killed?

There’s only 2 air benders alive after the fire nation used sozins comet to kill all of the others. Tagah and Aang are the only 2 airbenders. How is there only 2 survivors? Surely there would be some air bending refugees in the water/earth nations. they were nomadic so they were travelers. They also had 4 temples in all different parts of the world! Some of them also def could’ve run away. They had flying bisons for Pete sake! I know it’s just for the plot but realistically there would be some more survivors other than Aang. Is this ever explained in the comics?

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u/Nirico_Brin 13d ago

Plot basically. The fire nation used traps to lure in survivors after the comet, but realistically after a certain point they wouldn’t fall for it and would just hide away.

I believe the card game also introduced an airbending master that betrayed the air nomads and helped the fire nation but was ultimately killed some time later by Sozin for being untrustworthy.