"in and of itself"
by itself; with respect to its intrinsic or inherent nature without consideration of extraneous factors; per se, intrinsically, inherently.
Alear has engage weapons of their own as the 13th emblem and they have to do with their character. That is applicable lore regardless of your tunnel vision on the other emblems weapons and is not taken from nowhere.
Frankly I don't care for arguing with such pedantry as "effective: corrupted has nothing to do with corrupted", are you gonna remove the slur from your previous post or not?