Syrlya does lean in to inspect it more closely this time, hold his hand out in silent permission to take the hilt and give it a more thorough review. "Is it inscriptions?"

He's not expert in spirit magic--it's different manipulating an element than trying to work alongside what is s sentient form of energy. But he knows enough that if you wanted to unite a spirit with a physical object... "At least, in Tyria you would use etchings that maintain the spell even without direct involvement, thereby keeping the spirit in place or--whatever else you wished to bind."

He glances aside to Lavellan. "Is it a spirit of a similar nature to Cole, or something else?"