There are probably spoilers for _Issola_ in this post, in case you are interested in avoiding them. --- Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: [...] > By contrast, Godslayer presumably wipes out a god, > period, no more manifestations anywhere. Why? "Godslayer" is a loose translation from the Serioli. A strict translation, as we learn in _Dragon_, would be "Remover-of-Aspects-of-Deity." That sounds to me at least as likely to be the result Miklos achieved (by different means) in _Brokedown Palace_, as described by Verra in _Issola_: one aspect removed = one place in (or manner; the concept of place is flexible) in which the deity cannot manifest. Reducing the number of potential manifestations to one would then remove the status of godhood; to zero, would be analogous to human death. In this way Godslayer's creators could have achieved part of the result they desired, to destroy the Lords of Judgment. (Perhaps Pathfinder was necessary to locate each manifestation?) Whether they could have replaced them is a different question. As I read _Issola_, Godslayer's unique property is that it negates sorcery (in the Serioli's words, "useful for interrupting the flow of energies from" the Orb, or the Great Sea of Chaos, depending on how one looks at it) -- thus breaking the closed loop of Orb, Emperor, and Lords of Judgment that protects the Great Sea from external encroachment (Serioli as well as Jenoine). At the battle that ends _Issola_, the Jenoine had succeeded in creating a smaller such loop involving the Lesser Sea but were thwarted by (1) Vlad, wielding Lady Teldra / Godslayer; (2) probably more importantly, Adron. I wonder if the Serioli who created Pathfinder and Godslayer were originally working with, or were tools of, the Jenoine. I also wonder if there is a consciousness (or more than one) in the Greater Sea. -- Greg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com