User blog comment:EpicElijah/The Stone Army and the FSM/@comment-27507964-20160312004554

I believe that I may have found an answer to at least some of the questions. In The Stone Army they said that Lloyd had the power of the four golden weapons. When they were "destroyed" their elemental power seems to be gone, probably returned to its creator, or the heir to it. The FSM seems to be a mansion of power, but he needs keys to open some rooms. The rooms were always there, but he needed to invest some power to create things to access them, like the realm crystal or the four golden weapons. The Overlord also needed to invest power, but he did it less so he had more to invest in his army.