[quote=@Legend]
<Snipped quote by whizzball1>

It does not. It becomes a pseudo-Codex.
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Why does the essence appear? Is it just a part of being a pseudo-Codex? Because if so, then it must have either come from the creation of the pseudo-Codex or Existence just naturally makes it happen, in either which case we can find a loophole.