Continuation of a discussion on Lost Logia powers that started in the OC-thread:
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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
1) The ability was not actually demonstrated (and the original series actually came closest to making magic look impressive). We saw it grant a few wierd wishes and made a few monsters, the most impressive of which made a tornado of unknown size. Such monsters can be beaten by single mages. OK, they were pretty elite but it shows that they can be taken down by single humans, without heavy equipment (a device is "small-arms").
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Do note that the Lost Logia were not even being used at those times. That's like saying a gun is harmless because all it did was fall of a shelf and hit someone on the head. As soon as Precia started actually using them Lindy had to come off her captain's chair and step in to stop her.
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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
Even in the "historical pictures" shown, which may or may not reflect reality (after all, none of the characters involved had actually witnessed the mentioned event, so for all we know it is their over-active imagination formed from a lifetime of indoctrination regarding the dangers of Lost Logia and barely remembered ancient history), they were causing a few tsunamis which is bad (even to take out a civilization under the right circumstances) but is about a dozen orders of magnitude away from "World Destroying".
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Concidering Lindy even says that 'many of its adjacent worlds were completely anihalated' I'd say it was hardly an exageration. The scenes also show an entire planet literally tearing apart (huge tears in the grounds with buildings the size of ants included).
Also, this 'exageration formed over a lifetime of indoctrination' is completely baseless. Lost Logia incidents happen even to this day, meaning that there is plenty of it in the news.
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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
In the end, all the hype caused a few special effects on Earth, but otherwise left it so untouched no one even panics! No one dies. I don't think anyone even remembered it for two days...
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Yes, because the effects were stopped before they could become serious. It'd make a strange series if the heroes failed to save the day, wouldn't it?
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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
the next time we saw a Jewel Seed, it powered a Type III Gadget... does it look like something that in sets of 21 will be doing all the hype they promised?
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Correction, we saw a tiny fragment of a Jewel Seed ingrained into a chip, not the entire seed.
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Originally Posted by arkhangelsk
2) Lost Logia are not all ranked the same. Some are safe enough that even the TSAB is willing to allow their sale at auctions...
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Do clarify. If it was what Lutecia stole for Jail, we don't even know
what that was.