Claire wrote: > My question about Great Weapons is, if they're getting created all > the time, or even occasionally, ala Vlad and Godslayer, how can > anyone say that there are seventeen of them? I would doubt they are getting "created" all the time, per se. I would suppose, instead, that they are more likely to have "dormant" times, such as the time spent as Spellbreaker. Or that 17 of them were crafted, and they stayed in certain "stages" or "forms" until they were picked up by the "correct" person. And I get the feeling that Mr. Brust just *loves* all this conjecture and supposition. I'm more interested in how often he says to himself, while reading this list, "Hey! I didn't think of that one!" <grin> ~Chris "So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my Good" - John Milton - 'Paradise Lost'