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Can a spiritualist change a phantom's emotional focus after it has been created?
Well, phantoms are created by the emotional trauma they experienced during their death, and as such they are colored, both literally and figuratively, by that emotion. Basically, you would need an entirely new backstory in order to justify the new emotion.
But no, nothing is explicitly said either way (haven't seen the archetypes though). Just repeatedly implied by the fact that the emotional focus comes from what they felt at their time of death. So I am going to err on the side of 'probably not' since nothing is allowing you to gain this rather large ability.
I suppose there is an argument that you could just get a new phantom (I mean- spirirtualist are about how they can fit a phantom into their head- the phantom itself probably has little special about it). Of course, that seems kind of...well...evil, since you are release a creature that you spared from drifting into the negative energy plane, which implies that releasing it basically condemns it to undeath.
I suppose there is an argument that you could just get a new phantom (I mean- spirirtualist are about how they can fit a phantom into their head- the phantom itself probably has little special about it). Of course, that seems kind of...well...evil, since you are release a creature that you spared from drifting into the negative energy plane, which implies that releasing it basically condemns it to undeath.
Are Phantoms not considered to be from the Ethereal Plane? They may be dead, but they are a manifestation of unresolved thoughts and emotions, not the actual dead persons soul (unless you're ruling it that way, but they're still not undead.) Otherwise, a True Resurrection would both revivify the phantom and lock you out of a class feature.