Mitchel Rollins
Mitchel Rollins asked Andrew Rowe:

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Andrew Rowe A couple things:

Absorbing mana from something is not the same skill set as crystalizing it. They are both related forms of mana manipulation, but it's possible to be able to do one and not the other.

That being said, this process is possible for those people who do have both skills, with the understanding that there can be some mana lost in the process - crystal creation is not 100% mana efficient.

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