Like many players, I grapple with space in my inventory and bank account (sounds like real life!) It's an effort to figure out what is valuable, and what is not. What should you sell to merchants? What should you use for deconstruction or research in crafting? Or what items might have some unforeseen value that you're not aware of at the moment.
Such it is with trophies and pets. I have this thing called a black court whistle(???) from doing the crow's wood dungeon, and there's some weird description of what it does, but it's clearly marked as a trophy. Is there any reason at all to keep these trophies? I don't think you can sell them. I've been reluctant to just merely destroy them because I think that maybe there's something I don't know about the game in which trophies will eventually redeem themselves for some beneficial purpose.
And the pets? I bought the early release imperial edition which came with a bunch of pets - the monkey, the mud crab, etc. etc. They remain safely stowed away in my bank account (Imagine doing that with real pets), each one taking up valuable space. Oddly enough, I feel this strange attachment to them (maybe because of the inflated price I paid for the game itself). I remember when I first started playing the game in early release, I had the monkey following me around a bit (and the mud crab in beta), but the cuteness wears off quickly.
Any suggestions as to what one does with trophies and pets?