On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Alexx Kay wrote: > > I still don't understand how cutting off the Jenoine's connection > > to the Lesser Sea is supposed to get rid of the amorphia they already > > have. Can't they still use it to create an Orb from their > > trellanstone? > > Note that the Jenoine didn't have a "sea", they had a "river" > (at least, so far as we actually saw); we saw no stable pool. > We suspect that the source of that River was the Lesser Sea, > but we never saw its destination. Perhaps they were only able > to temporarily divert that amorphia from the (allegedly) one > place in the multiverse where a stable concentration exists, > and unable to *keep* that amorphia stable without letting it > return to its source fairly quickly (or letting it eat their > entire planet). The problem with amorphia is not having too little of it, but too much. It seems to me likely that less than "tapping" the Lesser Sea the J needed a spark - but to control the spark they needed something like an orb plus a source of energy. The LS could provide the spark and the energy. Perhaps they didn't achieve a self-sustaining sea or power cycle and required regular sparks. If the above is right, the J probably had a mess on their hands after _Issola_, if they still have hands at all. I like the idea that amorphia occurs elsewhere, but those elsewheres are as a result gone.