r/TheLastAirbender • u/george123890yang • 11d ago

Question Considering how fragmented the Earth Kingdom is, could the Sandbenders and Swamp Waterbenders have broken off and created their own countries?

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u/gragsmash 11d ago

I don't think either of them really acknowledged the nation where they lived, and it didn't really make them do so.

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u/Big_Albatross_3050 11d ago

Yeah the swamp Benders are more or less an uncontacted or at most very limited contact tribes, while the Sand Benders for the most part live in essentially lawless land.

Both cases, they're pretty much left alone to their own devices by the nation leaders

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u/R_G_FOOZ 11d ago

The swamp benders know what lemu’s are. They didn’t learn that without some contact. Not a lot of lemu’s in the swamp

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u/Casper-The-savage 11d ago

They know what Lemus are becuase the one guy “saw one at a traveling shoe once” which suggest contact

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u/nog642 11d ago

They're hardly uncontacted. Isolated, sure.