This wasn’t actually touched on, my assumption would be they are still items, and you can destroy them at the blacksmith, but I don’t know for certain.
I strongly urge the dev team to allow the existing aspects or aspect stones that we have already obtained in the game to be added to the new codex. I do not enjoy wasting my time. I saved some for my eternal characters before they even announced the revamp of the system. It is only fair to allow existing aspect stones to be included in the codex when S4 comes. Again, I am talking about things in the Eternal realm.
IDK how it is now but there’s a separate Stash bar in which all the items from Season are transferred to Eternal, and player has the next season to decide which to use further. Items remaining in the “temporary stash” get destroyed automatically at the start of Next season
If that’s confusing here’s an example:
Items gotten in S3, S3 ends
Your char becomes an Eternal Realm one with one extra Stash tab. That tab contains ALL the stuff you had
Everything that’s left in that stash gets destroyed automatically at the end of S4, but you can move it away in your normal stash tabs and that way items get preserved
Now for the Aspects themselves it’s a bit tricky, can go either way. If they don’t want players to have “advantages” from hoarding Aspects in Stash, they’ll probably destroy them
In Eternal , Aspects that has already saved inside your inventory tab will be pulled into the new codex system … and the aspect tab will disappear . No need to farm and the eternal codex will be already populated with all the old saved aspect tabs
In the new season , S4 , players need to farm new max roll aspects to populate your codex . Since your codex will always start with a blank aspect for your first character. Any new season characters after the first char will inherit the codex from the first character
This is really not an legitimate concern because it only affects the Eternal. There is no such “advantage” concern on the eternal. Anyone who starts playing the game earlier than others will likely have some advantages in the Eternal realm simply because the Eternal does not start over every 3 months. For seasons, everyone starts from zero anyway.