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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaelis" data-source="post: 4220936" data-attributes="member: 60210">I like the flavor, but it seems like it would be simpler to have the spirits actually consume the magic energy, so you don't have to deal with curses and people trying to find ways to get around them.  (Don't forget, at epic levels PCs will be tackling gods, so they might well be able to kill one of your spirits and take their stuff.)Though I think that for arcanists, plain old disenchanting makes a lot of sense.  For divine types, sacrificing items to their gods sounds much better.  For martial types, I could see either ancestor/spirit worship like you say, or else maybe something like a ritual combat between a warrior with the old item and one with the new one, which the person with the new item wins by design and as a result draws the power out of the old item.</blockquote>