Also, I found out that if you step on Shiidu prior to picking them up, Bag will call them Steelface. So that's... possibly a mark in the 'Bag remembers everything' column. Or it's just how Bag names things.
I stumbled upon this phrase when translating, but refrained from mentioning it here in order not to spoil it. But now that it was found in the game and the cat's out of the
, I can comment on it as well. It is indeed a strong connection to what happened in Tai Ming 1. But I don't know, I still refuse to believe that Pao Zhi and Bag are the same. All the artifacts we meet seem just to be innocent and kind-hearted and being forced to take part in what Zhamla did is hardly something they would like him for. However, Bag seems to admire Zhamla despite knowing what he did, even defending him at one point, so there has to be something else to it. The true Zhamla, however, the one we get to know, is only in Tai Ming 1 where he was a child. But it's not until Tai Ming 2 that Pao Zhi gets assigned to Zhamla - and there he already started getting cocky and angry and obsessed.
We'll have to see what Braazlet's personality is like in temple 4.
That's also something I'm looking forward to as it might explain many things. It's like the question with which was the first, the egg or the
. Do artifacts influence their wielder, or the other way round? It would make more sense that artifacts do as they, or items in general, influence your stats, don't they? So, in that case it could be that different artifacts influence different good or bad traits, like greed, lust for power, benevolence etc. Braazlet seems to be the only artifact that isn't used to destroy, as she is the one that heals Zhamla for his 999999 during the fight (at least I assume so). So if she is the only one, that influences Zhamla in a positive way, it's one good artifact vs. four evil ones.
One other thing you might wanna think about - if we're fairly certain the sword in the cave of Slan'kerz is Zhamla's... why were Dad and Charlotte searching for it? At that point Charlotte was alive and healthy and therefore they'd have no need or need to resurrect her. That doesn't mean they weren't trying to revive someone else of course.
Perhaps they weren't even trying to revive anyone at this point. If Bag is the schemer he appears to be after all the clues (although my mind is screaming nooooooo, not Bag, noooooo, Bag's awesome), he might have given them a different reason to search for it. I mean, Charlotte's sword did a hell of a lot of damage, compared to Zhamla's during his fight (which in my opinion is wrong as Zhamla should be stronger, but perhaps I'm missing something), so why would she need one?