![]() ![]() ![]() During the Hundred Year War, the Fire Nation exploited this inability to detain captive earthbenders, such as when they forced earthbenders to work on a metallic prison rig in the middle of the ocean, and locked King Bumi in a suspended metal cage following the takeover of Omashu. Toph discovered metalbending by sensing the impurities within the metal of the cage in which she was imprisoned.įor thousands of years, earthbenders were not able to manipulate processed earth. It is also possible to bend liquid metal inside someone's body. Metalbenders can also bend liquid metals, such as mercury, though utilize more fluid movements to do so, akin to waterbending. ![]() Since metal is merely earth that has been purified and refined, Toph used her seismic sense to perceive the trace amounts of "unpurified" crude earth still present in the metal, target it, and use it to bend the purified metal itself. Long regarded an impossible feat, the technique was invented by Toph Beifong to escape from a metal cage in which she was captured and transported by Xin Fu and Master Yu. Metalbending is a specialized sub-skill of earthbending that allows an earthbender to ferrokinetically bend natural and processed metal in a similar fashion to bending regular earth. Toph used metalbending to manipulate the plating on a Fire Nation cruiser. Guru Pathik explaining metal's relation to earth to Avatar Aang. Even metal is just a part of earth that has been purified and refined." " If you open your mind, you will see that all the elements are one. ![]()
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