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I actually have a question of my own now. The sigils of the items crafted by the Libra search for human essentia before they will work. That’s why they don’t work on dead people. Seuzz has said before that that element of the sigil could be removed to allow it ti function on animals, or even non living things. So that makes me pretty positive that a suitably modified sigil would work on a corpse. So my question is, if a suitably modified Sigil were to copy a corpse; would it also be able to copy the mental imago of the deceased, or as a “shadow” of Anima, would it fade away alongside of Anima and Essentia.

Also, another complication of copying the imago of a corpse is that because of essentia departing the body, there’s none of it to trace for the mask to function, which would require specific copying perimeters on the sigil to actually copy what needs to be copied. Could this possibly be circumvented by designing a specialized mask that contains essentia, which it could then insert into a corpse to respark the essentia pathways long enough for the masks to properly trace a person with the standard copying sigil, then, automatically extract the essentia upon completion so it can be used for a similar purpose later?