On the whole, I doubt that Morrolan or Aliera or anyone else with a Great Weapon has engaged in wholesale (or even massive retail) destruction of souls. It's been made very clear that Great Weapons are *capable* of not consuming souls. On the other hand, Morganti weapons which are *not* Great Weapons seem to always destroy the soul. And the destruction of souls use is frowned upon with varying degrees by almost all groups (nit-pickers: note the 'almost'). From the various comments in the texts, there seems to be no stigma whatsoever against carrying and using a Great Weapon. Sethra Lavode alludes in ISSOLA that possession of one will ultimately drive the holder to live up to the various responsibilities of ownership and use (whatever the heck they are), and that this is an honorable thing. Taking all of that together, I conjecture that the holders of Great Weapons usually refrain from destroying the souls of their victims. -- "BSD is for people that love Unix. Linux is for people that hate windows." Anonymous Coward on 09-24-02 04:50 PM (#4322372), on Slashdot