[Endoperez]

Recommending that one's pretender casts Transformation is almost as bad as recommending that you send him into the arena in the first place...

Any way, don't sweat about that too much. You're still starting out, and even if you lose your pretender you can use priests to call him back. He will lose one pick from all his magic, but that won't affect any blessings or scales, and he won't have the trident afterwards