Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-238662-20140606160839/@comment-24757127-20140808111410

Red Average wrote:

My theory is the stones predate the universe itself seeing as we have some stones that actually are named after key things in the universe (Reality, Time, Space etc) so maybe when the Tesseract was lost Thanos somehow had some left over enough to fill the sceptre which he gave to the Other to give to Loki. That could also be why the sceptre was needed to open/close the wormhole. The Tesseract was powering the wormhole generator, but the Tesseract needed to be whole to work. So using the tiny bit in the sceptre made it whole.