His kind doesn't understand technology as well as many other species, yet, this device he found, or rather, was led to by strange coincidences, seems to be strangely intuitive for him to manipulate energies with and create things he only had in his imagination.
Perhaps these ruins hold parts of the past of his kind that went forgotten.
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What other things would he be thinking about that could be manifested? ~thinks about butts~