

At the age of 40 he fought a powerful bloodbender called Yakone, who was capable of bloodbending outside of a full moon. The fight with Fire Lord Ozai wasn't the last dangerous battle that Aang faced in his life. " So he kind of burned up some of his extra Avatar time." " You gotta keep in mind that he was frozen in a state of suspended animation for 100 years," DiMartino explained. The series' other creator, Michael DiMartino, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that Aang had to draw on his Chi to remain alive inside the iceberg for a century. Of course, because of his time spent in the iceberg he was actually 166 years old.

Unlike Kyoshi, Aang died of (mostly) natural causes at the relatively young biological age of 66, and was outlived by Katara by at least a couple of decades. Related: Avatar: What Bending Powers Aang & Katara's Children Have Commenting on Kyoshi's long life in an interview with Avatar Spirit, Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator Bryan Konietzko explained, " Mike and I were of the idea that these people with such enhanced Chi fields might live a longer time." Aang's childhood friend Bumi lived to be more than 100 years old (and was still a formidable earthbender), while Avatar Kyoshi lived to the ripe old age of 230. People can live for a long time in the Avatar universe.

Sadly, though, Aang never got to meet his grandchildren. After Avatar: The Last Airbender ended, Aang's time in the iceberg eventually caught up with him, and he was the first member of Team Avatar to die. The sequel series The Legend of Korra, which is set 70 years after the original show, revealed that Aang remained with Katara for the rest of his life, and had three children with her.
