They were tools that were used to aid Balancers in combat and to make it smoother for them to utilise certain tactics using their spells, but any other ability that could be used from them was very rare and had to be of the highest quality and made from the best possible materials.
Other tools that had been created with inscriptions and engravings on them were mainly made for a primary purpose, like the ones Ash had been using or what had been used around the areas that the five great families made use of.
There did exist various tools that utilised the surrounding Life Energy or Life Energy from Balancers, but they mainly had the purpose of assisting in other ways besides combat, like putting up perception barriers.
Even those tools just acted as mediums to allow the Balancers to set up formations and to create other effects like sealing, but even those things had things they relied on, and they had their weaknesses.
