Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3123266-20140303175822/@comment-71.179.3.220-20140624064610

I'm not sure but I remember reading somewhere that the tesseract is also known as the Cosmic Cube, and that it's supposed to work in conjunction with the fully-equipped Infinity Gauntlet. If that's true than maybe the Aether is really some kind of liquified form of the Power Gem that needs to be condensed somehow and that the Scepter that Loki had in The Avengers may be either a shard of the mind gem that was given to loki and that it can be reassembled any time without damaging the gem and Thanos only gave loki that one small shard to ensure that he had some form of control over loki in order to make loki his little puppet while Thanos worked behind the scenes. Maybe there might be some kind of processes that need to be done in order to draw out the full power of the gems before they can be affixed to the Infinitity Gauntlet.