"Essences can be rearranged from one stable form to another one. There are rules about which they'll prefer if there are two stable forms possible for a given bunch of them. When I eat food, my body takes the essences and rearranges them to move my muscles and breathe and things like that. Down to the smallest level this is under my conscious control if I desire; I can tell a muscle to stop doing it, though then I might hurt myself, or to do it faster or differently.
But I can only rearrange what I have in the first place, and I can only do rearrangements if I can create the conditions for them within my body. Therefore I have to eat things that give me all the essences I require, and if there are things I can't create the conditions for internally I have to eat something that already contains it.
This is clearly not how you work. I am confused about how you work instead. Even the Maiar, if they have biological bodies, construct them from essences."
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Date: 2016-05-24 01:01 am (UTC)But I can only rearrange what I have in the first place, and I can only do rearrangements if I can create the conditions for them within my body. Therefore I have to eat things that give me all the essences I require, and if there are things I can't create the conditions for internally I have to eat something that already contains it.
This is clearly not how you work. I am confused about how you work instead. Even the Maiar, if they have biological bodies, construct them from essences."