Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25394244-20150110232943/@comment-24755726-20150111074025

As some have said, they don't kill the monsters, they just destroy their mortal shell, forcing them to retreat into their gem. They then contain that gem, with the plan of somehow reviving the gem into their non-corrupt form. They even keep the broken shards of some gems, and close together. Think about it this way: if you wanted to get rid of something, but it could be restored by putting the pieces back together, and you didn't want it to ever come back, would you put all the pieces in one place? No, you would probably scatter as many pieces in as many places as you could, so each piece would have to be found. Instead, they have these shards all in one place, highly suggesting they want them back.

Unrelated, who thinks Centibeetle may be the first male gem (other than Steven, of course)?