Talk:Sorcery (element)/@comment-29522860-20161031015753

Something I now have a place to ask about.

In the first game, the crystals generated by Seath cause curse, as does Oceiros. Though Logan was able to replicate the magic, the sorcery avalible to us cannot curse, nor can any crystal art today. But in the Grand Archives, reading the tomes unprotected will instantly curse you, and all of those curses have something in common.

You crystalize.

Perhaps the true crystal magic reorders the very matter and energy into solid crystalline material (as real technology can potentially make crystal photon matter), and by wraping your head around the complex logic and particulars of such rearangement the mind will break with the stress of what was just learned, and make you inadvertantly crystalize yourself?