I haven't read through this entire thread so I'm not sure if any said this or not but if you look at the screen box when you open the Zodiac Glass, the picture of the relic is blacked out (unlike on Animus books, where it shows a color picture of the relic) - I think that possibly our progress will be measured through that - like the relic picture will fill in as we soul bond it - an obvisouly this will take awhile.