ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I have a pair of non-functional, duplicate Blood-Runed Athame and Resonating Diamond on my character (vanilla 1.0).
http://te4.org/characters/31549/tome/13 ... 99956f5f91

I completed High Peak before the "There and Back Again" quest. After winning at High Peak I returned to the western continent through one of the portals at the peak. When I travelled back to the Eastern Continent I suddenly had the Blood-Runed Athame and the Resonating Diamond (I think I may have gotten them from the new monster at Reknor portal, but I'm not sure).

When I got back to the eastern continent I tried to use the items, but the quest didn't acknowledge that I had them. So I went out and collected them, giving me a working pair as well.

I kept playing and realized how the bug occurred.

After constructing the eastern portal and returning to the west the "normal" way (not via High Peak) you get a new quest to get a new set of Blood-Runed Athame + Resonating Diamond. This is the set I collected first, resulting in the weird non-functional-duplicate situation.

Bug fix:
The set of Blood-Runed Athame + Resonating Diamond in Reknor shouldn't be created until you have built the portal in Gates of Morning.

Mm... yeah, they're dropped by the Reknor backup guardian, have been pretty much forever. You can sequence break a little, but... is that really so bad? I'd probably suggest just changing Tannen's dialogue if you're already toting around the pair of 'em, maybe add a little popup or somethin' after killing the reknor secondary boss telling you they're not superfluous. Something along those lines.

I see a few reasonable options:

1. Don't allow the player to back to Maj'Eyal before completing the farportal in Gates of Morning. Simply don't create the portal at High Peak unless the eastern portal is completed

2. Don't drop the second pair before the player has completed the portal in Gates of Morning

3. Allow the player to use any pair when constructing the portal in Gates of Morning, modify lots of dialogue to allow for different scenarios

4. Add specific variations to the different pairs, making it explicit that you need a certain variety. For example "Resonating Diamond of the Raising Sun" / "Resonating Diamond of the Setting Sun".