I said even IF you "COULDN'T"...I was not saying that you couldn't.
Caribet...work me through this...
"You can only attune an item as your Talisman if you prepared it for enchantment yourself"...
(simple enough)
"A magus may attune an item with instilled effects as his Talisman, as long as he instilled all the effects personally."
"Finally, your Talisman becomes very easy to enchant,"....
...."every time you prepare it for enchantment, or instill an effect."
(2nd column, 2nd Paragraph)
Making a point here that Enchant and Instill are two diferent operations...
Okay (follow my lousy example closely), back to the first example..
"You can only attune an item as your Talisman if you prepared it for enchantment yourself"...
It does not say you can only attune and item that IS enchanted. It say you can only attune an item that you PREPARE yourself.
Now the second:
"Finally, your Talisman becomes very easy to enchant,"....
Enchant is the process by which you instill the Vis.
This implies that the item is already (assuming you are not attuning an item you made before) your Talisman BEFORE you start instilling the Vis.
The last part kinda backs up what I'm thinking here...
...."every time you prepare it for enchantment, or instill an effect."
(2nd column, 2nd Paragraph)
They are talking about instilling attunements here, but the point is that they are saying you can do that while you are PREPARING it for enchantment. You can't attune an item that isn't your Talisman.
I don't follow your statement that you couldn't put the 20 pawns in yourself...The entire operation breaks the rules of enchantment...why should the MT rule apply here???
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