Though a soulbond is powerful, once you're bound to a one, your devotion to your soul path will be tested.

If you behave in a way that directly opposes or hinders the motivation, goal, or cause declared in your soul path (regardless of whether the act involves your soulforged armaments), your spirit tarnishes. It's anathema for you to commit acts opposed to your soul path or even to go a long time without taking action to pursue the path. You and your GM determine when you've performed an anathematic act. Anathematic acts trigger a curse known as soulforged corruption that degrades the energies within your soulforged armament. This brings out a flaw inextricably tied to the armament's true essence. The corruption flaw applies to you even when your armament isn't manifested. The rules for the flaw appear in the essence power. As normal for a curse, this affliction can be removed only by effects that specifically target curses, including the methods in Removing Corruption below.

Soulforged Corruption (curse, divine) A successful 4th-rank cleanse affliction spell, rather than ending this curse, reduces its stage by 1 (to a minimum of stage 1). Level your level; Saving Throw Will save against a very hard DC of the curse's level; Stage 1 You suffer the effects of your armament's corruption flaw. If you try to manifest the armament's essence form, you must attempt a DC 5 flat check. If you fail, only the normal form manifests, and you can't try to manifest that armament's essence form again that day (1 day); Stage 2 You suffer the effects of your armament's corruption flaw, and any attempt to activate the armament's essence form fails (1 day); Stage 3 Your soulforged armament is permanently destroyed. You can't have a new soulforged armament until you remove the curse entirely with the purify soul path ritual (1 day).