I'm not sure if I publicly said this here, but I mention it to my friends on discord all the time, thought I should tell y'all too. Jolk cannot reform himself. He has to rely on an outside source to reform him. Such as a friend reforming him, or him casting an enchantment on his collar to reform himself.

Jolk has no natural 'mana bank', so he can't perform magic without heavy costs. He has to use a small 'shard' of his soul to cast magic. If he doesn't have a soul anymore, he cannot be reformed at all (even from external sources) or cast magic, however, nothing else is different. He still has his emotions and etc.

With how I kind of built him, it gives me a reason to be fairly unwilling to digestion, the fear of not coming back. Of course, he trusts friends he's known for a long time to reform him so he can still be gurgled.

He only uses his magic if he deems it absolutely necessary. And since it has a hefty cost on him, the magic he performs will be plenty powerful.

Oh and yes, his golden scales are naturally extremely strong, so most of the time acids can't affect him, note that I said most of the time. :3