[Huge _Issola_ spoilers, stop reading now if you haven't read that one yet (and it's out in paperback by now, so why haven't you?)] On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > >On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Michael Mattoni wrote: > >> Spoilers for all books ahead... > >lots of snippage ahead: > >> >> Further,given the high standards of characterization that Steve has, I >> would suspect that something big would have to happen to Vlad in order to >> for him to reconcile with Cawti. Perhaps Lady Teldra's influence is a >> literary device that gets the ball rolling. > >I don't need a reconciliation. As far as I can tell, Vlad is now >married to Teldra much more intimately than he was ever to Cawti, >which would set us on course more for a big painful >let's-just-be-friends scene. > Er, I don't think the relationships that the bearers have with their weapons includes a physical aspect. Recall that Aliera has Pathfinder and yet is still doing "it" with Mario. Unless, of course, Pathfinder *is* Mario. Hmm. Whole new worlds of speculation and stuff there.