We know that the word 'amulet' is often used to suggest a protective object.

And in fact that is what it appears to do. First season? Lord Fear hides it in the organ and gains in power while the Knights drain. Kilobyte's probably slightly less able to use it (not being a Sorcerer), because he doesn't just hide it away, he has to hold it right in front of him in order to shield. And then he's defeated. With Fear's help. :P

We also see it bringing various beings from the Sixth Dimension, so therefore that's its other power.

And with the combination of all the minions Lord Fear could rustle up plus invulnerability, that's what conquers the world. Not an innate increase in power level, but extra help (which may turn on you) and nice shields.

I have gotten so bad at posting on this board... so forgive me if I say something totally useless. :P

Hmm... I do seem to remember some line about the Knights growing weaker as Lord Fear gets more pieces of the amulet. And Lord Fear having the pieces of the amulet means that the Knights can't have them, and so they'd be lower in invunerability. So as Lord Fear gets more and the Knights don't get any, the scales are going to keep tipping in Lord Fear's favour. And when he does get all of them, I don't think the Knights can power up (am I remembering that correctly?)

Might also explain why Mark seems to avoid getting shot/hit/killed. He's always got a piece with him. :P

Yeah, you're right. :D The amulet has to be the reason why Mark didn't get killed (maybe that's why Ace gave it to him?). And maybe he also gradually absorbed enough power from it to be able to use the wrist cannon in second season.

I haven't seen the whole show but it seems like the Amulet does whatever the writer say it does right now. :o

Ah, that's the good thing about extremely vague sources of magical power with little canon evidence for their exact purposes - you can mess with their logical uses XD. You should see what it's been doing in the Roleplay ;)

The amulet at least the way it appeared in the show seems to have the power to bend space and time- when in the end of season one the knights had no pices evil held sway over the amulet so it weaknened good adsthe balance shift.

Each piece of the amulet when put together, opens one dimensional portal- and when completely together cane be used to make a peremnant bridge.

The knights always protected it for safe keeping but never used it themselves- absolute power corrupts- so they never use it to wipe out evil.

The guidebook quotes

This proves my above at the top theory... Illusion used it to allow Mark and Ace to aqquire weaponry and defences in episode six of the first season with LF's piece of the amulet.

In the 39th episode- The Master Plan, Rick says about how if Kilobyte gets the ful amulet, the computer won't be able to stop him with the Kilobyte control disk. This proves a vital point that 'Game Over' Episode 26 never touched on. If Mark had pressed delete it more than likely would have had an affect or would have deleted the knights and left the evils as they were.

The amulets full powers more than likely would have been told in the third season. :(

I agree with Allison. Although really I think we all know that the amulet was just something the writers used to base the show around (or they probably would of explained it with more detail) if there WAS some sort of reason for the amulet I think Allison's reason is probably the most accurate.

I'v always thought that the main reason behind the amulet is to open portals from one dimension, and bring things like teammates, minions, wepons ect to another. There are other reasons for the amulet of course but, I can't remember that many episodes that well. I do remember though having quite a few of my theories confused by different situations and events in the show. As well as the fact that I didn't pay this much attention to things like this until the show had ended. :(

The idea of just opening the portals is itnriguing, but it strikes me that logically, that couldn't be the amulet's ONLY purpose. I mean, sure it brings you more forces through - which is great in a fight.

Lord fear has a certain number of minions altogether. At the beginning of each new “level” he only has one or two of those minions available to him. He can gain more minions by putting together amulet pieces. It stands to reason. If he gets more of the amulet than Ace and his team doesn’t, then he’ll naturally have more force and power and increased his chances of winning. If you have all the pieces you have ultimate power.

But you can still be beaten, Right?

It’s obvious that the Knights are somehow tied into the power of the amulet (note they start to fade out when Lord Fear has all the pieces. And the villains powers and abilities must be tied into it too because after Mark smashes it

In the next series the amulet could be defeated, as Sarah said up there, so obviously it’s NOT the ultimate source of power it’s made out to be – and it’s dangerous. If you’re running all that power through yourself and some annoying mortal jus up and smashes the source of that power? Yeah, you’re gonna break down, just as happened at the end of season two.

Once the amulet becomes seperated, into its seperate pieces like Mark did it could no longer act as an ultimate power. And it seems because the evils were using it to win basically the aftershock/backlash caused the evils to to destroyed and sent back where they came from.

My guess is the amulet while an ultimate power together is only as useful; as who uses it, I mean Lord Fear could have wiped Ace and everyone from existance but he didn't majorly in part to hubris.

The amulet's powers are space and time, powers as well as everything else is a part of space and time, which it could manipulate, my guess is there would have been a point where Mark would have been affected but the more powerful you are...

It was powerful enough not to class Illusion as an Evil anymore, at the least it has the ability to tell good from evil in every character regardless what side they were on- or itself is a sentient force.

The seperate pieces can be used for weapnary, or portals but my guess is you need more that two pieces to perform more powerful tasks, and the entire amulet to unleash its power.

I' not sure about that myself. There are other potential explanations, such as, for example, Li's morphing ability - she can morph into anyone and, presumably anyTHONG she desires, so perhaps that allows her to in some way override the system that would wipe her out...

I do't know, you could well be right. I can't think of any other REALLY good explanation for her not fading out...

There's another possibility (and poor Sarah frost won't thank me for telling you this :P) that states that Lady Illusion was, in some way MEANT to have an attraction to aece and was therefore programmed with the ability to turncoat, but that would go against what mark said in Ace seven about there being "nothing in the rulebook [that say's] they can fall in love".

I don't like that either but Rick/Master Programmer says in the second season that he is more powerful than love- he is the one in that line of thinking that programmed her, so there's no way she could have been pre programmed to fall in love with Ace.

Lady Illusion's morphing abilty is a disguise she uses, Lady 'Illusion'. Something as powerful as the Amulet wouldn't be fooled by smoke and mirrors.

Yes, I have thought way too much about this....

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True enough. If the amulet is so powerful than it's tje centrifuge for a battle between good and evil... smoke and mirrors? No way?

But what of Lady Illusion is the mask anyway?