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someone says this in a book:

でもスキルが生きるかどうかは人格ありきなわけだから

whether someone is skilled ... something to do with personality. what does ありき
mean here? I found it as a noun meaning location of something but I don't see
how it would work in this sentence
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grammar words copula
can you use ありき as a な-adjective
First, the answer to your question is yes. You need to change the copula だ
into the attributive form such as …である or …な when you connect the clause
人格ありきだ to the noun わけ.

Edit:

When you combine two sentences of 人格ありきだ (one's personality is prior to it)
and わけだ (it's for the reason) into one sentence "It's for the reason that
one's personality is prior to it", you can't just put them in a row like
人格ありきだわけだ, but you have to change だ as in ありきだ into some forms that can
connect to the succeeding noun, which are である or な.

In this regard, verb ある happens to be the same form either when it terminates
the sentence or when it connects to a noun. However, だ only works when it
terminates the sentence and な only does when it connects to a noun.

Second, Aは Bありき だ means that B is a precondition or an essential condition for
A. So, the example sentence means "But, whether you can activate your skill or
not depends on your personality, so...".
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