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Aside from taking away someone's bending, as seen against Firelord Ozai, is
there anything more to the energybending?

Do we know any details on the technique other than what was told in the series
itself?


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What can energybending do?


Nothing has been mentioned outside the official series episodes so there are
few details to work with. The only other resources to look toward would be
other series and how each used life force controlling powers.


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EnergyBending skills

Transferring knowledge : We see this when the giant turtle transfers the
knowledge of this bending to Aang.

Removing Bending Power : For when Aang seals the powers of Firelord Ozai

Restoring Bending Power : In The Legend of Korra, Korra goes into Avatar State
and Aang restores the power of the people that were affected.

_The lion turtle told him that in the era before the Avatar existed, the
benders did not bend the elements, but the energy within themselves. In order
to bend another's life energy, their own spirit must be unbendable, or they
would be corrupted and destroyed._

This is the only information being able to found, maybe in the next books of
Legend of Korra we would get new information.


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Not much is known about Energybending. Before the four elements and the avatar
were created, Energybending was the only bending-art in the world. Out of
this, the four bending-arts were created (Airbending, Waterbending,
Earthbending and Firebending), so these are _based_ on Energybending.
Energybending is the _base_ of all arts. While the for bending-arts are based
on the _Chi_ , Energybending works a little bit different: It bends the energy
in general and not the Chi.

With that, Energybending can be used to take and restore bending-power and
knowledge (nothing more is shown, but I guess that much more is possible):

  * Avatar Aang uses the ability to take bending-power from Ozai in the last episode of _Avatar: The last Airbender_. This is a dangerous technique, as the soul of the user must be completely _clean_ ; otherwise, it can happen that the victim takes over the user.
  * Both the lion turtle (in _Avatar: The last Airbender_ ) and Aangs Spirit (in _The Legend of Korra_ ) use Energybending to transfer knowledge to other people. I guess it's possible to take memories, too, but that's nowhere proven.
  * Korra uses the ability to restore bending-powers to help some victims of Amon. The spirit of Aang uses that ability to restore Korras powers.

Also, Energybending is the only bending-power that can be used by a spirit
without a medium (as shown when Aangs spirit teaches Energybending to Korra).


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Don't forget, it's probably possible to grant the power of bending to someone
who cannot bend, as the Lion Turtles created the first Avatar.


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The others are already stated in the answers so I am only including
explanations for the 2 that are not stated.

  * Granting bending
  * Removing bending

  * Astral projection

Tapping into the vast expanse of cosmic energy with the help of the Tree of
Time, Korra was able to bend the energy within herself to create an astral
projection of her spirit. Despite not having been bound by a corporeal form,
the projection was able to both inflict and sustain great physical damage and
utilize waterbending. This astral form was also capable of firing a beam of
light similar to that of Vaatu.

  * Spirit energy manipulation

The ability to manipulate energy originating from the Spirit World. Korra
first used this technique to manipulate the energy of the pod encasing Jinora,
Ryu, and his tour group after they were captured by hostile spirit vines. She
later employed the same technique in the mortal world to deflect a lethal beam
of energy fired by Kuvira's spirit cannon and save the metalbender.

<http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Energybending>


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