well i just thought of something,when and visited the southern air temple(episode 3)??the only skeleton he saw was monk gyatso,where were the other airbender skeletons?so the fire nation might be holding them prisoner

If that was happening, then only the young airbenders or the baby airbenders would still be alive (they'd be more than a 100, though). But that is an interesting idea.

yeah thanks

I thought of this before as well, but then figured that since it is on nick they didnt wanna show the aftermath of a genocide. but i do think that since Aang said the only way to get to an air temple is on a flying bison that it must have at least taken the fire nation some time to get up there, which would have given some airbenders time to get away. my conclusion is that most airbenders were killed off but there??are still a couple that are??in hiding. think about it??less than??a hundred years is still a pretty short time to kill off an entire race. especially ones that are nomadic and live in completely different corners of the world.

interesting...they are nomads, after all.

Very interesting theory.?? It is very viable and would solve the whole last airbender bit. ?? However I tend to think that Aang being alive and the only airbender would have drawn out the others from hiding by now.?? Because as we seen in the Kyoshi Warriors episode his existence and location was quickly exposed from the island.?? Then Zuko found him there.

I don't really think there is Air Nomads living in the Fire Nation. Well maybe, if they took kids from the temples and raised them as Fire Nation. I guess they could use them for scouting or something. But we haven't really seen evidence of this. Maybe the Fire Nation attacked during a fierce storm where the Air Nomads where unable to escape and just butchered everyone inside the temples. But who knows maybe there are a few Airbenders (really old ones) living in the sky by flying around the world forever. Or maybe that tornado from The Swamp had something to do with it.