My first attempts at making the gem itself, were a little rough. I didn't realize just how hard it would be to channel both a fire spell matrix, and an earth spell matrix in short time, but I needed to in order to not have the gem fully attune to one element. After a few attempts, and finding the same results, I decided to seek out some help, and found Cuan, who was a great help! He showed me some other techniques for channelling the matrices, and how to not exhaust myself on the first matrix, so the magic flowed much better! Now I have a very nice gem, with both fire magic and earth magic, that I cannot wait to present to the teachers!