>That's an interesting but unlikely notion. Loraan was killed by a >Morganti dagger, and that was the end of him. And if other ordinary >wizards were immune to Morganti weapons (or even ordinary weapons), I >think Vlad would have found that out by now. There is that, but then you have to consider how many wizards has Vlad had to kill before? I don't think there would be that many wizards in the Jhereg, and since it's mainly the Jhereg who get assassinated, the chances of needing to worry about them would be small. I've always been under the impression that morganti weapons literally eat the soul, but as someone earlier posted, maybe they just sever the tie between the soul and body then it might be different. What if the wizard's soul is bound to some other object, say a staff, so that when the connection between soul and body is cut, the soul doesn't depart forever, but it remains tied to the staff. All it would take would be some sufficiently powerful wizard friend/relative/whoever can then reconnect the soul to the now undead body? As for Vlad's knowledge, there's always the fallback that he's an idiot. :) Craig