Yeah the only thing I had a problem thinking of was why Koh would be involved. To be honest I thought that perhaps the real reason Amon wore a mask was because perhaps his face changes like Koh's or something along those lines. But thats really stretching it, I can't really think of a completely legitimate reason. It would be kind of interesting though, seeing as the last Avatar who fought Koh was the previous water Avatar, Avatar Kuruk.

Woot there goes all the Bumi is Amon theorys finally!

I need to explain why I think it is Yakone.

1.) Like I said in my original post. He was alive when Aang was still the avatar and Aang took his bending. That would make anyone mad.

2.) We know that this series takes place 70 years after the end of A:TLA. Yakone has his bending taken away around 28 years after the end of A:TLA. This leaves 42 years for him to learn and master the ability to take a person's bending.

3.) We don't know how old the person is behind the mask. If Yakone was, lets say, 20 when Aang was 40 (the time Yakone lost his bending); it would put Yakone at around 62 and that could be.

4.) If it is not Yakone then it might be another child of his. He might have tried to get Tarlokk to join his cause but if Tarlokk said no. Dear old dad might have then tried with the next one down the line. If he had more then two he might have gone to all until he found one that was willing to help.

5.) After Amon took Tarlokk's bending he took him, now granted all the other people he took the bending from were where he could keep them under his control, but why take him? If he wanted to kill Tarlokk because he can't really take bending away (that way he could keep Tarlokk quiet), all he had to do was leave him in the house and burn the place. If you hold people you have to take care of them, you would think. Why not kill the people he took the bending from. I think he took Tarlokk because he is either his son or a sibling and no matter how evil Amon is that's family.

Okay, that is about it on my idea of Yakone but I also was thinking about this last night. I remember someone saying that it looked like Amon did a little air bending. This thought comes from an idea that my sisters and I came up with after watching the original series. The question we asked was, "If monks run the air temples, where do all the new air benders come from"? What we came up with was this, there was more then likely one or two small colonies in the earth kingdoms or else where in the world. Now this only works if the "breeding" members of the air bending nomads didn't live in the air temples, my guess is they didn't. So what if it was more like a few colonies in each of the other three nations that had air bending "breeders". In A:TLA we know that the fire nation took out all the air temples at the same time, word would have spreed and gotten to the "breeding" colonies before the fire nation had a chance to wipe then out as well. The "breeders" could have gone under ground and hided. This would mean that Aang wasn't the last air bender. I think I remember someone saying something about when Lin said Tenzin and his family were the last air benders. It kind of meant that they were the last that she knew about. We know that the war before Aang was 100 years and then this series is 70 years after the end of that war. Now if you are a family that has had to hid who you are for 100 years or more you would think maybe someone would want to get back at the ones who made them stay hidden for so long. That hate might have grown from just the fire nation to everyone and then even those who openly bend. If Amon did air bend like a few people said he might have he could be one of the decedents of those "breeders" who had to go into hiding. That way it might be a connection to A:TLA but without being directly linked to an original member of the cast.

I think everyone is saying Amon hates benders because that is the vibe he is giving off, now if he does we don't know. People are not giving the Bumi theory any credit because why would Bumi have any reason to hold anything against anyone. People are saying that if he was sad or mad that he was the only none bender in his family all he needed to do was go talk to his uncle Sokka and find out that you didn't need to be a bender to be worth something in the world. So unless General Iroh stole Bumi's girlfriend when they were young, or being in the army when Bumi couldn't, I don't see Bumi having any kind of vendetta with him. Amon being Bumi is just so out in left field that it can't be true for people. But now having said that this is Avatar and anything can happen.

well after the development if the plot I agree that Amon being Bumi is less likely now. Was thinking for a bit before I was going to puta "theory but it didn't seem plausable. Heres another one insted what if Amon was hiding out in Air temple Island as one of the Air Nomad it would explain how he moves like an airbender and it could tie into the whole Amon being a foil to Korra. An avatar being unable to master airbending and a non-bender being able to master the "fighting style". There are alot questions with it but it makes you think

First of all, General Iroh being related to Zuko is not my opinion, Dante Basco said before the series premiered that he is voicing a character related to Zuko in some way. I'm not saying it's his son, but it's definitely not just a random person. Here is a link to the Twitter page where he announces it. I do however think it would make sense that it was his son since Zuko considered his uncle a father figure and there is a tendency for people in the fire nation to be named after their older relatives such as Azula being named after her grandfather Azulan.

http://twitter.com/dantebasco/status/4338535209369600/

Secondly, you say with such conviction that Amon is Tarlokk's brother when we don't know for sure whether Tarlokk even has a brother. Of course we don't know if General Iroh has a brother either but this is a place where people can voice their opinions and you shouldn't say someting with certainty until it actually happens.

Well done good sir