Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-25405817-20151005211146/@comment-25555436-20151006185143

Phantom, Dust is elemental energy. Fire, Ice, Lightning, Air. You can't cast Healing spells with that. You can't poison with that. You can't cast curses and hexes with that. You can't steal life with physical attacks with that. The only non-elemental Dust that can be excused is Kinetic or whatever, if we assume it's just normal Dust that had it's Elemental energy removed, thus leaving only physical energy.

Materia actually allows people to learn and use magic of multiple kinds, and even gain not-magic-related skills.