Lvl 10 Starting Equipment????

[Norfleet]

No, but they need to buy raw materials (the components that make up the physical part of the item, material components for the item creation, other stuff to help them in the process...), so essentially they sacrifice huge sums of gold upon the altar....

And where do those components come from, what ARE those components, and who gets all this money in the end?

Somewhere in this loop, there's a HUGE money sink, and I want to know where all that money is going. Somebody is getting sickeningly rich off this, and it's not the buyers of magic items at Magic Items R' Us, nor the wizards who make these items.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Yea, those ruthless material component sellers make a profit with every magic item created here. Those ruthless bastards!

I think what those materials are and where they come from does not matter from the rules standpoint. Any DM who wants to elaborate can think of something.