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>>115487 The Sun Warriors probably weren't lying, so much as forgetting a lot of this information at some point between 10000 years ago and the present. I mean, the Lion Turtle was seemingly something no one but Aang knew about in ATLA.
Dragons remain key to the essence of firebending technique- It honestly seemed like Wan may have been the first true fireBENDER, with his old villagemates just being a bunch of assholes that happened to be able to shoot fire, as his level of control was outright stated to be unprecedented.
Given that the first thing people managed to do after leaving the Lion turtles was to immediately go to war, I'd imagine that there was probably a fairly heavy rotation of collapsed civilizations and empires until some Avatar or Avatars managed to get things settled down and segregated into disparate areas where people wouldn't or couldn't attack each other with impunity. Which would do a lot to explain Roku's attitudes, frankly- If his communing with past Avatars explained to him that "Hey, the only way to get everyone to stop killing each other was to keep them apart" then he was justified at leaving it at that. For all we know, maybe the Water Tribes are all backwards and remote because there used to be a massive, oppressive 'Water Tribe' empire in the continent of the Earth Kingdom, and just no one remembers it anymore. The Sun Warriors perhaps first formalized the Dragon-style Firebending after dozens of previous Fire-aligned nations had already erased knowledge of the Lion Turtle era, or maybe by the time or after the Fire Nation toppled the Sun Warriors, the Sun Warriors forgot it themselves. War is a good way to destroy history.
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