Issola spoilers too... if you haven't read Issola, get your behind out and do it today! Ok, one point about this. Spellbreaker- counters magic, both attack and defensive Godslayer=Spellbreaker+Morganti Dagger+Lady Teldra It seemed pretty obvious to me that Godslayer lost none of the spell countering effects of its component, and that one of Godslayer's biggest points is its ability to cut through magical shields and defenses, like the sort Gods were undoubtably have cast around themselves for protection. AkodoBob who is confident that no matter how powerful the god, the Godslayer between their shoulder blades, will serious cramp their style. On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 04:26 PM, Andrew Lias wrote: >> >> On the other hand, I the impression that Godslayer was effective >> against >> the Jenoine (in ISSOLA) because they weren't expecting it. It seemed >> to >> me as if the Jenoine were ready for Blackwand, Iceflame and Pathfinder. >> Godslayers presence was unexpected, and no defenses had been set up >> for it. > > I hate replying at work when I don't have my books with me, but I just > finished re-reading Issola not too long ago. There was a paragraph > where Vlad, now being able to see the lines of forces that the Jeonine > were using, states that Blackwand, etc, were potent weapons but they > weren't designed to handle the sort of defense that the Jeonine were > using to protect themselves, whereas he demonstrated that Godslayer cut > through those defenses easily. > > I don't think that it's so much that Godslayer was designed to > *specificaly* cut through the Jeonine's defenses as that, as it > happened, it could do so. Really, considering that it's a device that > is intended to slay *gods*, I think that we ought not be too suprised > that the same functionality could work well against Jeonine as well.