First... this game is awesome, but... i don´t get these relics! It says it gets disabled when there is a adjcent item. But in my way it was in the corner, all alone, 2 tiles awy from any items, but i still can´t use my bow. And another round it said adjcent and diagonal to a armor or shield. It wasn´t, but again, i couldn´t attack. Everythings just black. Can someone help me, please? TY
I feel you, the description on the relics is too exclamative rather than informative.
I got a conductor relic and thought it was gonna give all my connected weapons +25% damage, but it turns out that unlike every other relic it needs to be physically connected to the weapons to work which is confusing since most relics in the game do not behave this way.
Likewise for you, it appears you thought the relic had to be near no other object, but it is not that at all. The weapons it affects must be near no other item in your backpack to work.
That means there are relics where the items are the center of the relic's effect and other relics where the relic is the center of its own effect. It is really hard to put this into words, but trust me when I say that I think more work needs to be done on each relic's description.