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What if any hypothetical confrontation with a magical item or demon was solely for worldbuilding, and played no part in the character's powers? My original character concept last night was someone who found himself or his soul on the line against some third-party force, and ended up teaching the next generation of [s]goddamn brats[/s] channelers in order to earn his freedom back from whatever it was that he confronted. This event wouldn't have factored into anything he could do - he would have already been a channeler by the time this confrontation took place - but would have given an otherwise aloof teacher reason to serve the younger characters your typical shounen schlock. 
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Well I imagine you could probably make that type of backstory work with the existing powers as they are now. Technically you wouldn't even have to have anything supernatural involved at all for that to work, just say it's a group of people that he's forced to do something for in some other way or something like that instead of making it literally his soul on the line. I mean, I'm sure you probably want it to be more supernatural in origin cause that's more fun, I'm just saying that it's technically possible for the sake of making the point is all