A restrained Yakone effortlessly bloodbending ChiefToph Beifong.
Psychic bloodbending is the ability to use bloodbending without the
aid of motion and movement of the hands or feet. Yakone first
demonstrated this ability when he used bloodbending to control an entire
courtroom while his hands were still bound by cuffs. He passed on the
knowledge of this technique to his sons, Noatak and Tarrlok. However,
only Noatak mastered the ability, doing so at the age of fourteen and
able to control an entire pack of wild animals at once.
Bending severing
Lightning Bolt Zolt losing his bending.
Bloodbending can be used to completely cut off a bender from his or
her bending abilities. This technique has only been demonstrated by Amon
and requires direct physical contact between the user's hand and the
victim's forehead. The effects of this technique are long-standing, and,
unlike chi blocking,
it cannot be easily undone. According to Katara, the technique "severs"
an individual from his or her bending, making it impervious to all
methods of healing. Even so, only active chi pathways can be severed;
Korra was able to use airbending because it was still dormant when her
other bending abilities were removed. However, the severed bending can
be restored through the use of energybending, as shown by Aang and
Korra.[6]
Bloodbending is the only known way besides energybending to strip a person of their bending indefinitely.
The lion turtle was seen again in a flashback, right before Aang began energybending Ozai, where he spoke the words: "In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves..." Aang, with these words in mind, began to bend Ozai's energy. The final time the lion turtle was heard, he spoke the words: "To bend another's energy, your own spirit must be unbendable or you will be corrupted and destroyed..." During this time, Aang's energy managed to overpower Ozai's and he succeeded in taking away his ability to bend.[5]
TRIVIA:
Nyla was
unable to find Aang while he was on the lion turtle due to the fact that
the lion turtle had traveled all over the world for so long,
accumulating countless new smells, that it smelled like the earth
itself, thus masking Aang's scent.
"The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being
lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being
harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void but
always yields to purifying light."