Firebending, one of the four elemental bending arts, is the pyrokinetic ability to control and produce fire it is unique among the bending arts, as it is the only one in which the performer can generate the element the first human firebenders lived in a city atop a lion turtle during the era of Raava and the art later spread to the Sun Warriors, the Fire Nation, and the United Republic of Nations the Earth Kingdom also has a small firebending minority. Iroh, fire is the element of power, consisting of overpowering force tempered by the unflinching will to accomplish tasks and desires.