User blog comment:Imouto-tan/Fina Bicchieri/@comment-4867780-20161227043634/@comment-4867780-20161228000014

What about the "using many elements in a single spell" part ? Which elements are they ? It's mostly on this regard that I brought the Pyric Spectrum idea, which seemed a good way to reconcile elemental diversity and fire-centered character.

Guessed as much B)

Education definitely has a determining influence of someone's psychology and behavior, though the sheer extend of Huozai's evil deeds clearly suggests there's more to them than just bad examples. From the looks of it, they essentially taught him "weaklings exist to serve, do whatever you want", and he answered something like "sounds great ! let's do this". You can't have this much nasty fun and then just play the manipulated victim card ^ ^;