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A parasite that shapes reality ? Not a fact but a very vague speculation. What you are denouncing actually makes more sense as being reasonable. Lets try logic. How logical is it for something sentient such as a parasite to feed off a soul ? Now how logical is it for a parasite to reshape reality? A parasite will have more in common with a soul than a "reality." That is too much of a reach. Malekith saying "casting darkness" is symbolic to the outcome of matter to dark matter. The reality gem is not scientific. It is more closely related to "magic" because it grants wishes ( which has nothing to do with Aether in Thor 2). The soul gem is obviuosly metaphysical which is more closely related to matter. Just because you can transmute matter does not mean you are changing reality. You are changing the properties of what is real or already real. Reality is based on "place" while the soul is "something." Why would Frigga use a "soul" forge to examine the aether in Jane Foster's body ? The answer ? Probably because the aether is affecting her soul not her reality. This makes more sense logically. The gem didn't change color because she couldn't handle it. Remember she almost died. The Gardener and Warlock could barely handle it. How did Malekith change reality? In what way ? When ? Creating solid matter and changing solid matter are two different things if we are talking about dark matter. Dark matter is not distinguishly solid on the physical plane we are familar with. Eventhough "creating" matter is best suited for the Reality gem, my opinion is that "converting" matter to dark matter pertains to converting solid to gas as is in the egyptian teachings I spoke about earlier. Solid is physical,liquid is mental,gas is spiritual. The Aether in solid form is a stone. In liquid form it is what you saw in the film. In gaseous form it is on a spiritual plane. Draining one's life force has nothing to do with reality shaping. We know that the energy can be harvested we just don't know how. Usually with mental energy, discharges come from the head as with psionic bolts ( Jean Grey,Moondragon,etc...). My speculations are based on logic and reason from fact based research. And by the way I really enjoy this conversation :-)