Ambanes and the others were mostly brought up to acknowledge that there is some identification for Relics… even the weakest of them. You wouldn’t go out of your way to get a magic weapon if you could by any other Arcanium piece. Laelus got lucky so i don’t care much about him tbh.
Despite being fodder, Ambanes shows that on occassion, Relics can go up for Auction… with some knowledge being held for them having Spirit energy almost basically being needed for them to sell against other Magic items and such.
Fr imagine you could make a rip off prometheus acrimony that when you put into the brewing cauldron, it either explodes or gives a ‘‘mistake’’ potion that does nothing but make you vomit
Magic as well. All elemental magics have certain affinities to intent, so stuff like phoenix has higher healing affinity than fire. Same with damage affinity.