Nonbender-born (Earth-2213)

"Does it make a difference, being nonbender-born? No. It doesn’t make any difference."

- Sasuke Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha

Nonbender-borns, also known pejoratively as mudbloods, is a term used to refer to shinobi or kunoichi who are born to one or two nonbender parents. Despite not coming from a clan, their chi is still high and thus their bending abilities are not affected by their nonbender parentage - in fact, many nonbender-borns are amongst the most talented kunoichi and shinobi of their time, such as Kushina Uzumaki and Asami Sato.

The size of nonbender-borns among the shinobi population rises with each year, while pure-blood clans shrink in number and size.

Origin and bending abilities
Nonbender-borns are either born with a kekkei genkai or inherit bending from distant ancestors that married nonbenders amd whose clans or families lost knowledge of their shinobi ancestry and legacy. The bending abilities may manifest unexpectedly generations later.

Treatment
"No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood."

- Neji Hyuga to Asami Sato Nonbender-born shinobi and kunoichi are more often than not the subject of heavy prejudice and discrimination within the shinobi community. They are derided by pure-bloods, who coined the slang "mudblood" to refer to nonbender-borns, implying they are fiflthy and impure, and many believed nonbender-borns are unworthy of bending abilities and should not be allowed to join the ranks of the shinobi.

Many clans who did not share such beliefs, such as the Yamanka Clan, are labelled by pure-blood supremacists as "bloodline traitors".

Notable nonbender-borns

 * Asami Sato
 * Kushina Uzumaki
 * Rin Nohara