Well, with Wisti looking at metal I'll go with the Fire spin on my concept, which I rather like.<br/><br/>In his case, the connection between his power and talent is in how there was so much passion in his early work and that was what made it powerful and great.  Going with Fire, his talent lies in that wellspring of energy to keep going and not back down as well as a strong empathy (developing into a true power as we go into the other realm) that he could capture the emotion of his subjects so well.<br/><br/>So he's a bit burned out from having done so much and yet had so little actually change beyond the names of the tyrants and places where bad things happened.  He's out of touch with his nature at the beginning and thus a bit angry and bitter.  Also, it gives him a bit of a path for development early on.<br/><br/>