ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I wound up giving him some other rod I found while wandering around. Initially I was confused about the items with pink names, I thought they were also artifact quality. Still feeling incredibly fortunate with this character so far - my second ever! Of course now that I've said that she'll die tonig...

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I've crawled the wiki, read FAQs, and searched the forums but found nothing specific to my issue... which has me wondering if I'm missing a very obvious game mechanic or something. My character has several artifacts with an arcane powersource, both equipp...