On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:46:10PM -0800, David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > > And for that matter, what about Morrolan using a Morganti weapon on > >everyone in his path, even if they're mostly Teckla? On the other > >hand, since `Blackwand does what he says', maybe he doesn't destroy > >dozens/thousands of souls per battle. But no one knows for sure but > >him (and Verra?). > Yes, I've posited that he has destroyed few or no souls. My notion is > that part of the standard operating procedure for Great Weapons is > that the gods tell the bearers, "Handling souls is *our* job. You can > send them to us, but don't destroy them unless we tell you to", or > failing that, that destroying souls is overkill, even for an ambitious > Dragon. I still like the idea that Vlad is the only one of them who has used a Morganti weapon to destroy a soul. It's hard to reconcile, really (especially for Sethra) but it would offer the chacne for some really interesting character development for Vlad. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp