In January 1st 900 AD, all Native American people suddenly gain the ability to bend the...
Native Americans get bending abilities in 900 AD
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In January 1st 900 AD, all Native American people suddenly gain the ability to bend the elements from avatar, also the history of Europe and Asia stay the same until Columbus arrives
Though their location depends on what the majority get. If it an area where snow and Ice are common than the majority of the population gets Firebending and waterbending, while a minority get Air and Earth. If there in the mountains the majority get Air and Earthbending
- Every Firebender can learn how to create lighting, but only 10% know how to use it instinctively and other random 5% get combustion bending
-Every water bender can learn to use bloodbending on the full moon. Though only 10% have the potential to use it during the day and 3% of those have the potential to use Psychic bending. While ever water bender can learn how to heal
-Every earthbender can learn how to metalbend. 10% automatically know how to use seismic sense, while the rest would have to learn/be taught. While 5% of of all earthbenders have the potential to learn lava bending
Random 5% of the airbenders also get flying ability
This event won't happen again, but bending will spread through their descendants
If two parents with the same type of bending have children than the child will become the same type of bender.
If the parents are different types of benders than the child has a 50/50 shot of becoming either bender.
If one Parent is a non bender, than the child has 50% chance of becoming a bender. If the child is not a bender than the chance of the offspring becoming a bender goes down if the other parent is a non bender
So how will the Native Americans change? They have several hundred years to work with bending before the Europeans arrive.
How would religion change, what kind of Civilization will appear.
How will the Europeans react to bending?
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Though their location depends on what the majority get. If it an area where snow and Ice are common than the majority of the population gets Firebending and waterbending, while a minority get Air and Earth. If there in the mountains the majority get Air and Earthbending
- Every Firebender can learn how to create lighting, but only 10% know how to use it instinctively and other random 5% get combustion bending
-Every water bender can learn to use bloodbending on the full moon. Though only 10% have the potential to use it during the day and 3% of those have the potential to use Psychic bending. While ever water bender can learn how to heal
-Every earthbender can learn how to metalbend. 10% automatically know how to use seismic sense, while the rest would have to learn/be taught. While 5% of of all earthbenders have the potential to learn lava bending
Random 5% of the airbenders also get flying ability
This event won't happen again, but bending will spread through their descendants
If two parents with the same type of bending have children than the child will become the same type of bender.
If the parents are different types of benders than the child has a 50/50 shot of becoming either bender.
If one Parent is a non bender, than the child has 50% chance of becoming a bender. If the child is not a bender than the chance of the offspring becoming a bender goes down if the other parent is a non bender
So how will the Native Americans change? They have several hundred years to work with bending before the Europeans arrive.
How would religion change, what kind of Civilization will appear.
How will the Europeans react to bending?
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DevilinDetail
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This is lacking a lot of detail, like the most important factoid, what % of the populace changes. Also, I don't think this changes that much overall, though obviously it'll be a huge change; the population limitations and disease vulnerability remain the same, if not worse. Not to mention I would be unsurprised if Firebending / Waterbending didn't last too long.
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honestly, real humans would be savage with fucking bending, i can totally see the aztecs telecinetikly making a human hearth beat outside of the body whiles rings of blood form around the priests
I envision grand ritual dances, to accomplish great feats of bending like shaping of grand stone cities, changing courses of rivers, hurricanes.. All benders would be treated akin to demigods and segregated to the upper echelon of society.
Religion would become even more important in the face of direct manifestion of miraculous abilities. Benders would be intregal to society and dramatically aid expansion conquering the wilderness, bringing on the bronze age. There would be seafaring expeditions in search of new lands to settle in. And so it will be the native indians making first contact with the europeans.
Depending on where they're in, in the technological stage there could be a wide number of outcomes. Xenophobia would afflict either sides. The bending of the Native indians reviled as heathen witchcraft by the church. Over time if outright war doesn't break up there will be Native indian colonies in Europe. Trade and technology will prosper as well as intercontinental travel. With time there will even be European benders.
Radical shifts in world powers will have consequences for the east, they will be colonized in force by the native indians and Europeans having lagged behind in technology and powers.
Religion would become even more important in the face of direct manifestion of miraculous abilities. Benders would be intregal to society and dramatically aid expansion conquering the wilderness, bringing on the bronze age. There would be seafaring expeditions in search of new lands to settle in. And so it will be the native indians making first contact with the europeans.
Depending on where they're in, in the technological stage there could be a wide number of outcomes. Xenophobia would afflict either sides. The bending of the Native indians reviled as heathen witchcraft by the church. Over time if outright war doesn't break up there will be Native indian colonies in Europe. Trade and technology will prosper as well as intercontinental travel. With time there will even be European benders.
Radical shifts in world powers will have consequences for the east, they will be colonized in force by the native indians and Europeans having lagged behind in technology and powers.
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Man if only it would have ended if he was out of the picture, but I don't see that as very likely considering he was backed by European powers, they probably wouldn't be too happy if he suddenly died. They'd very likely just send more people with weapons in order to go find him and still send armadas out to conquer and colonize in order to extract more resources to keep their economies ever-expanding.
It'd be lucky to get these nations to give up by just killing one dude and his crew.
Umm then they die. Bending abilities will fuck up guys with iron weapons and single shot guns that take a minute to reload. Also I doubt that Spain will send someone to rescue Columbus ships go missing all the time, it could be pirates, a storm, whatever. The Native Americans have super powers and a cure to diseases. If they manage to get colonized despite this they deserve it.
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Yeah here'd the thing, you do know that they also fought each other right? you just made any conflict they have much worse, even more blood can be splilled this way
Yes annnd? Fights between Europeans also got bloodier with new advances in technology. It still made them stronger. Now that the Natives have bending they won't be colonized by the Europeans. White supremacy will never rise. Maybe Africa might get colonized instead or in the 19th century. But maybe not since the Europeans won't get the wealth of the new world to make the more powerful.
Neruz
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Religious crusade, obviously the evil magics wielded by these primitive barbarians are the result of consorting with the Devil and it is the duty of every faithful son of Europe to destroy these heathens and their demon masters.
Of course I expect said crusade would get utterly trashed, but crusades getting wrecked never stopped the Europeans before.
How this magic would affect the Native Americans themselves is impossible to say, beyond 'a whole fucking lot', but I sincerely doubt that the Native American cultures would look anything like the ones that historically existed OTL when the Europeans first came around.
Oh, and 900AD is about a century before Leif Erikson found Vinland, so the Skraelings having elemental magic will make that whole little expedition go differently too, though again I have no idea how differently.
Does the bending come with the spirits as well? If so, the provable existence of 'nature spirits' is huge and will, in the long term, probably result in major and fundamental changes to world religions.
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I think you might be underestimating what can be achieved through years and years of experimentation. They would already have their ritual dances which would blend well to bending, and they certainly would have the right mindset from the get go, with their reverence for nature.
If he disappeared doing the first expedition, no one will really care. They most likely think his ship sunk at sea. The government would be annoyed, but no one would really miss him. The only thing his death will do is delay America's discovery for few more years/decades
No spirits, just the bending happens
Out of curiosity, were you thinking of writing something based on this? I absolutely love this setting and would love to read something based on it.
VoidZero
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A lot of sudden shifts in political structure I would say. Like what used to be difficult to settle land can now be cleared and watered easily. Forests and mountains are no longer barriers of communication but sources of ready resources. Flight and water travel expands the reach of individual villages universally and larger more centralized polities will appear. Metal bending is not necessary for iron to become wide spread as you got earth and fire. So lots of exciting development.
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A superior people have the right to rule over their lessers, why else would the gods have blessed them with magic? With a divergence in 900, history would be largely unrecognizable to us
Forests were pretty much never a barrier in the Americas. The Mississippi river Basin in the north and the Amazonian basin in the south were huge routes of travel that could get you to almost where ever you wanted through the two largest forest on the continents and even had few cataracts or the like. The biggest barrier for the settled peoples communicating was desserts and oceans. Water bending helps massively to turn the Caribbean people from island hoopers to a full blown trade empire. Also if metal bending is required or not depends on just how easy it is to discover iron without it. OTL iron smelting is believed to have only been invented once ever so heating rocks to sweat out iron from them is not a easy connection to make. With metal benders someone can just pull the stuff out cause they are curious and then other people can try and find non-metal bending ways to get this cool stuff.
They did have turkeys and ducks though. Also llamas and guinea pigs. Agriculture would have thrived imo, as people started large scale domestication and farming to support the increasing population.
Free healing is the most useful thing ever.
The Spanish during the Columbus era were broke. They had to sell their own crowns in order to fund Columbus. If he failed there wasnt a second chance.
Europe was in dire straits in that era. They were being choked economically. And were having a lot of trouble politically and socially.
If Columbus didnt succeed it would have taken at the very least decades (probably a few centuries) for another one while the regime changed.
Ehh just putting these here. Just the Aztec empire had over 30 million inhabitants. (In an area that was relatively tiny). They were more advanced in some areas of medicine (T-sections and some similar practices of surgery plus actual medicine) than the Europeans of the time. They aren't wiping themselves out.
Neruz
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Sounds like even better reason to launch a religious crusade; distract the people from problems at home and get a bunch of them killed off, helping the economy by reducing the amount of it.
There are two times when it is a good idea to launch a religious crusade: First, when times are really good and you need to keep people distracted from unfortunate questions like 'why are we letting these unarmed monks tell us how to live our lives?' Second, when times are really bad and you need to keep people distracted from unfortunate questions like 'why are we still giving money to these unarmed monks when we can barely afford to eat, and wouldn't all these shiny religious baubles sell for a lot of bread?'
Europe doesnt know that America exists at all yet. If Columbus fails because of benders they wont discover it until decades or centuries later.
Even if they discover it. The conquest of Tenochtitlan didnt happen until 20-30ish years later. Mapping the area and planning what to do + help of the natives were a big deal on succeeding at it.
Cortez and his men didnt slaughter the Aztec empire by their lonesome. They succeeded by getting an overwhelming support from the natives and even then they almost lost. If a crusade is declared you aren't gonna have any help at all from the natives.
The religious power in europe is dividing itself. Only a few years later does Protestantism start. Just there you lost most of your main fighting force.
And supposing all of this mess is somehow solved. You will still need to unite sixteenth century Europe somehow and I bid you very good luck with that.
Also killing people off doesnt help the economy at all. And shows you lack understanding of it. They were in that mess in the first place because of a lack of people.
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Neruz
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Actually that's a good point, that early 16th century time when the early knowledge about America was properly spreading was the same time that the whole Protestant Reformation went down.
Depending on the exact timing, that could potentially cause some massive changes to the way the Reformation goes, which would butterfly more things than I care to count into the future.
Depending on the exact timing, that could potentially cause some massive changes to the way the Reformation goes, which would butterfly more things than I care to count into the future.
Religious Crusades are also hilariously bad at actually accomplishing their objective against foreign powers and that is for things that are around the Mediterranean. For something that requires cross the Atlantic there simply aren't a huge number of ships that would even be able to do that safely and once they get their they would be sea sick, half dead, and mostly useless without a place to actually stay and rest up. Also it is hellishly expensive to go across the Atlantic in that time. So really it seems a great way to loss lots of money, cannons, guns, ships, and troops and accomplish nothing more than making it easier for your less pious neighbors to conquer you at home.