Alchemical Power

 Power delights in being used.
 To achieve power, promise to use the power. It will come at you in a swarm. It will gather itself.

 The precise uses promised are not irrelevant. If used for deviance, used to destroy the power of others, it incentivizes them to shackle or destroy your own power, rendering it useless. 

 Promise to use the powers in ways that can be upheld in the long term, rather than only the short term. 

 There is no reason for power to align with those who can only promise the short term, with the exception of the meanest, most desperate forms of power, which can barely get used at all. The kind of power that costs more to use than it can gain you.