Dragaera

Spoilers for Issola

Thu Aug 1 09:46:22 PDT 2002


>
> > 1. Was Godslayer created whole in the first place? Or was it created
> > as 'Spellbreaker' and combined with any Morganti weapon would become
> > Godslayer?
>
> One clue is Verras reaction to Spellbreaker.  She doesn't recognize it
> before it reacts to her.  When it does, she *still* doesn't seem to
> know what it is - although she recognizes it as threatening her and
> (I think) as an object of power.
>
> To me, this argues that *if* Godslayer had existed as a unit and was
> later disassembled, that Verra and the other gods had nothing to do
> with that disassembly.  Otherwise she would have recognized the pieces.
>
> Conversely, the first Serioli that sees Spellbreaker knows exactly
> what it is and says it is 'not yet' a Great Weapon.  If it had been
> one in the past, he probably would have said `not at the moment'.  I
> base this opinion on the clear Serioli tendency to try and say *exactly*
> what they mean, in mind-numbing detail.

This raises a question. How do the Dragaerans know about Godslayer, if it
has not existed whole up to this point?

> I believe that not just *any* Morganti weapon was required.  If memory
> serves (which means I'm too lazy to go find the reference) Vlad obtained
> Spellbreaker from a wizard who had a bunch of Morganti weapons stored
> with it.  Presumably he'd been experimenting with reassembling Godslayer.
> On the other hand, it's possible that a consumed soul was also required
> and/or that the soul was *freshly* consumed.

Good point. It explains all the Morganti weapons on site when Vlad aquired
Spellbreaker.

Ian