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I have a question about one of the newer chapters you added to explain the spell process and such. In "Second Spell: The Seal" , you say that a mask's physical appearance can be updated. But you said in "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: F..."   that once sealed, the image in the mask is fixed. Is that a new change you've added to the spell, or was it a mistake? Because if that is a new change, I can think of at least one contradiction it would have caused in "New Spells, and a New Complication" , because wouldn't it have updated the mask of Will to contain his reversed imago? Kinda seems like that would cause a lot of problems for Will if his golem couldn't have filled the role of Will Prescott any better than he could have himself, and because he could have resumed his own life at some point if he had wanted to, considering the golem would have already been fucked up anyway, which would have caused further story problems.

It seems like it makes more sense for the mask to not update in the same manner as the mens does, because as they're explained in "Magic: The Libra Personae" , the mens directly inserts the mental imago into a person, and so would come into contact with the person's own mental imago, allowing them to update each other if the person is putting on a mens of themselves. But with the persona, you said that the imago isn't placed over top of the wearer's native imago, but is instead swapped out with the imago contained in the mask. It seems to me like the two imago wouldn't really come into contact with each other in the same way as with a mens so as to make an update.

Sorry if I seem pedantic, but it does seem like an important detail to clarify, so I figured I'd bring it up.