KG said: > I would assume that if Brust meant pigs, he'd say pigs, not kethna. < Kethna fill the same culinary niche as pork, and they also stink--but they live in nests. Vlad refers to wild boar in Issola. That's a pig. >Speaking of Great Weapons, we've seen a proto-GW kill someone whose soul became a central (maybe neccessary) part of the result. And we saw the disguised Pathfinder kill someone right before Aliera got it (for Dragaeran values of "right before"). Hmmmmm. Wanna bet we see Blackwand kill someone right before Morrolan gets it? < My understanding was that Pathfinder was a Great Weapon before it was hidden. If all Great Weapons are created by the incorporation (as opposed to destruction) of a human soul, does this depend on *whose* soul? Or, is Lady Teldra a special case because it was created in Vlad's presence? Vlad wound the soul-stuff of Lady Teldra around his wrist, and knew he was wrapping her soul around his. Does this mean that, on some eternal plane, he has always been bound up with Lady Teldra? Who had Blackwand before Morrolan, and was it a Great Weapon already? Mia