Affect
Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Copy
Copy verb - To make an exact likeness of.
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Changing your equipment doesn't affect your copy's spellcasting ability, and fiddling around with your inventory just gives Mara that much more time to kill you, as he's no pushover even without summoning a copy of you.
Source: Video Game / Dungeon Crawl - The Hell is the same way with the interesting twist that the person might be alive elsewhere while that copy of them is being horrifically tortured, and it doesn't affect the "real" person.
Source: Literature / Surface Detail -
It's eventually revealed that Haran essentially is the Dark One, or at least a less powerful copy of his personality, and gets reabsorbed into him when the Dark One is able to affect the world enough that he doesn't need a mouthpiece anymore.
Source: Mouth of Sauron
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