Talk:Black Shard Arm/@comment-29735342-20170918214644/@comment-10786238-20180103235440

I discussed it with Adam Christopher (author of The Corroded Man), and he said that each artifact seems to have a BASE power (in terms of the knife, recall that you only gain the ability to forge bonecharms after you grab it, meaning that's likely what gives the knowledge), and some secondary skills (for Zhukov, the mirror magics and corroded power, for Billie, in keeping with her history as an assassin, the Void Strike).

The others make perfect sense. Add on the fact that she seems still capable of using time travel (likely through the Timepiece if she found it) seemingly afterwards from her perspective in "The Wyrmwood Deceit", and we have some evidence that the magic is NOT entirely going away after he's gone, so it's built into the world even further.

Fantastic work, Fradi.