Starshadw at aol.com writes: >In a message dated 7/25/2002 6:18:37 AM Mountain Daylight Time, mneme at io.com >writes: >> (which would make sense -- she is the most >> powerful of the gods, and it's the weapon that's designed to kill >> someone with unimaginable protections and magical attacks). >She is??? Do we have that definitively somewhere? No, I'm making it up...sorta. She's the first of the gods, and clearly of a different nature than any of the rest (the rest seem to all be upgraded humans or maybe Seroli, while she is...something else). She is the god who represents magic (which seems to be the force that makes gods possible to begin with), and it is explicitly said that she's at the center of the struggle against the gods' main enemy, which means if she isn't their leader, I don't know who is (I guess you could say she's the gods' Warlord, though :). Regardless, even if she isn't -the- most powerful of the gods, she's still the one Lady Teldra was created to destroy -- its recognition of her (and her fear of it), combined with the fact that she -is- the Goddess of magic [and it is the sword that eats magic] makes that clear. Of course, it makes things interesting that the Necromancer, who isn't a god, is better at magic than Verra is...but these things happen. :) -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'