Talk:Caste System/@comment-34997073-20191209002553/@comment-27725096-20191211022906

perhaps they're required to use their arms to guard or they will be shattered, as punishment for failing to fulfill their role as a full fledged gem they must now either serve a purpose as a partially functional object or be destroyed entirely if they fail

as for how gem powered objects function, we actually know quite a bit more than you'd think, gems can use kinetic abilities while poofed but only if theyre near enough to the object (unnamed frybo shattered gem type can control cloth, lapis can control water and reflectiveness, desert glass can control sand, lighthouse gem (possibly a topaz) can control wood) many people forget about these other examples, but we have in fact seen them