"Each one's unique, so not only do they only do one type of thing, they're never the same as any other. But people manage to work out the rules of their modifications and see how broadly they can apply them, and some might be more limited than others to begin with. Lots more variation than I can really even summarize," he says with a shrug. "Some let people control forces like fire, some let people transform into animals, or give them senses and abilities an animal would have. But don't ask me how that works." He's sure never experienced turning into a giraffe. Probably has to do with some rapid cell rearrangement. Law probably has theories, because of course he would.

"Cultivation's tricky for reasons I don't understand. I know it's been tried, and that it fails. I've heard rumors of scientists trying to engineer them directly too, but I really don't know the first thing about it."