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Obviously, the weirdness comes in because for some reason there are no rules for retraining traits(probably for this exact reason, because there are a couple of traits that give you money or items), but there is a feat that gives you traits. Also, this isn't the only case of strange happening, what about gunslingers? If you retrain out of gunslinger into a new class that doesn't start off with a gun(Oh IDK maybe a particular barbarian that TWF with guns) what becomes of your gun? I guess a GM could step in and say, "Well, one day you wake up and your battered pistol gives up on you entirely and can only be repaired at whatever it would cost you to buy a pistol, and don't even try to magically fix it either!"

But, back to the topic of traits; just because you lose a trait doesn't mean that your character just erases a page of his history and writes in a new one. Elves CAN take the warrior of old trait, but not all elves HAVE the warrior of old trait. If you lost the warrior of old trait it doesn't necessarily mean that you no longer have those memories, but your fighting style has evolved and changed over your character's career and for one reason or another he no longer calls upon those memories when in battle. Maybe they don't mesh well with what he's learned, or maybe he's outlived their usefulness. An orc who loses the tusked trait doesn't necessarily no longer have tusks(although he could say that they broke and are now no longer useful for biting), it could simply mean that he no longer incorporates them into his fighting. Lastly, the wording on gifted adept is very vague; "a spell" had a profound effect on you and now you have an easier time casting "similar magic." I guess the intent may have been the spell in question, but not necessarily(you use that word a lot, I do not think it means what you think it means).