Quote Originally Posted by Behold the Void
I would like to remind people that a lot of Kefka's magic power (i.e. when he took on Gestahl, for example) came from the statues. In his normal form he's pretty weak, really.
This is true. It's also the reason why Emperor Ghestal couldn't "put Kefka to sleep". The statues did most of the work for him. Now if Ultros had been at those statues...