You might want to alter your soulbound armament by adding new runes to it, replacing its old form with a new one, or creating a new armament after yours was destroyed. When you do, it's up to you whether you consider this to be the same armament of the same lineage or a brand-new creation with a totally different appearance and name.

Upgrading your armament works like etching or transferring a rune or upgrading a permanent item from a lower-level version of the same item, whichever is appropriate to what you're doing. You or someone else can do the work, but you must leave the item manifested for the entire process. You can transfer runes off your armament as well, typically in anticipation of establishing your bond with a different item.

Reshaping your armament allows you to change the base weapon, armor, or shield into another of the same type, turning half plate armor into full plate, changing a warhammer into a longbow, and so on. If all you're doing is changing the form while keeping the same runes and other magical properties, you can do so by spending a day in meditation. This doesn't cost any gp or extra time unless the new form is higher than 1st level or unless the difference is so vast that the GM determines it might take additional time and cost. For example, turning explorer's clothing into full plate requires the same time, expense, and Crafting check as you'd need to Craft full plate since full plate is a 2nd-level item. Specific items can't be reshaped in this way unless the GM specifically allows it.

You can also use this day in meditation to rebind your soul to a different item in your possession. Typically, you keep the old item, its power removed. Since the essence power you chose represents the effects of the connection to your soul, typically the essence power doesn't change when you bind a new armament. If you rebind your soul to an armament that can't accommodate your current essence power, you might also need to change the essence power. You can recreate a destroyed soulforged armament or bond to a new one if your previous one was destroyed. If it was destroyed by soulforged corruption, you must first successfully use purify soul path. Recreating costs the same amount of time and money as creating the item from scratch. If you already have an item to form a new bond with, it takes 1 day in meditation, as with reshaping an armament.