No spoilers, but some oblique writing ahead. In re Vlad 'bonding' with Godslayer and how the morganti blade became Godslayer: It's my impression that Godslayer is an exception to the rule. If the method used to form it was standard for each new holder, it would have happened thousands of times given the number of Great Weapons (17) and the fairly large number of generations the Empire has spanned. If it happened that often, it would be pretty much common knowledge. I'm in the camp that says Godslayer was broken down some time in the past and the reassembly was a unique event. And now that I think about it, the reassembly took Sethra, Morrolan and Kiera by complete surprise. That argues strongly that none of them have ever seen such a thing before. -- "In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal." -- author unknown