At 07:35 PM 7/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>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 I think that it just so happened that she was there, any soul will do without having to have any great destiny involved. Mind you, since we're unlikely to find out, it's open game to speculate however you want. >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? > >Claire I didn't get the impression that great weapons are getting created all the time, it's just that they get hidden, misplaced, etc. I think that Godslayer was so powerful that the gods, or someone, tried to destroy it and so it became a couple of component parts (I'm thinking just the chain was the important bit and any powerful morganti weapon would have done to make up the rest, not that the dagger that the Jenoine gave Vlad was actually a component of the original Godslayer) that could form back into Godslayer at some point in the future, under the right circumstances. Craig