Serious SPOILERS now for Issola and others. In a message dated Wed, 24 Jul 2002 6:32:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes: > KG said: > >> I would assume that if Brust meant pigs, he'd say pigs, >> not kethna. >Vlad refers to wild boar in Issola. That's a pig. Ah, I missed that. I could defend myself by saying I was using "pig" to refer to the pinkish things found on modern farms, not the blackish, horned things that were a big part of "hunting accidents". ObComics: wild boar are the primary food for the characters in the Asterix series by Goscinny and Uderzo. >> 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? Good questions; no idea if we'll get answers. > 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? More good questions; we *may* get a few answers in _Lord of Castle Black_. Then again, maybe not. --KG