The thing works as such – it won’t buy items, and it doesn’t sell things for money. As it’s called an “Ethereal Soul Trader” or something, it trades for souls. If you have it out while you kill things – anything that’d grant experience (or, presumably, honor; I assume it functions the way a warlock’s soulshards do) – it syphons its soul and gives you a token as “your cut”. You can then trade these tokens for items, such as some sort of mutagen that works on non-combat pets, a potion that detects invisibility, an alcoholic beverage that has “strange effects”, and a full set of ethereal wraps that your character can wear, which mostly look kind of sucky because your character is composed of flesh, as opposed to swirling pink energy. It basically looks like a half-assed mummy suit with shoulders and a belt. :p

Still, it is pretty awesome to have an ethereal follow you around, sucking the souls of those that you kill.

Take your time, Mania. You do a great job bringing us Hunter fanatics the latest news. :)