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Vlad's role in upcoming books (Was: Concerning Great Weapons & Baritt (no POTD spoilers))

Sun Mar 9 15:15:41 PST 2003


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From: Michael Mattoni [mailto:mattonim at engineering.ucsb.edu] 
Sent: 08 March 2003 19:08
To: dragaera at dragaera.info
Subject: RE: Vlad's role in upcoming books (Was: Concerning Great
Weapons & Baritt (no POTD spoilers)) 


Mike Mattoni wrote:


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>From: Michael Mattoni [mailto:mattonim at engineering.ucsb.edu]
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>Subject: Vlad's role in upcoming books (Was: Concerning Great Weapons &

>Baritt (no POTD spoilers))
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>>Possibly, but does Vlad have room for 2 women in his life, Cawti and 
>>Lady Teldra?  I don't remember seeing a wielder of a great weapon who 
>>had/has a partner.
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>>Mark

Mark,

>Your implication is that the bond between a GW and it's owner is so 
>intimate that it might eliminate the desire for or complicate romantic 
>attachments with others.   Possibly, but...

Yes, that is what I'm thinking.

>Consider the source.   Vlad has only had contact with 3 GW owners,
Sethra, 
>Aliera, and Morrollan.  What about others?  And even within this cadre
he 
>does know:  1.  We don't know anything, really, about Sethra  2.
Aliera 
>just recently came back from the Paths. (And she has something going
with 
>Mario.  Although, you might refute that by saying that the relationship

>started before acquiring Pathfinder <I think that last is correct.
It's 
>been a while since I read FHYA>)  3.  Vlad didn't even know Morollan
had a 
>oven of witches or that Lady Teldra was M's high priestess.  More
intimate 
>details of M's life are still unknown to Vlad.

I did consider Aleira and Mario, but as you point out, that predates
Aleira and Pathfinder.  Also note that, as was pointed out in Issola,
the Great Weapons LOVE their wielders (if that''s the right word).  I
may be wrong, and I don't expect our esteemed author to let us know as
it would give away to much about future books....although we would still
end up specuating, just about different things.


>I don't necessarily disagree with what you said but there's still a lot
we 
>don't know.

>Mike

Agreed, However, I haven't seen any concrete evidence about the weilder
of a great weapon having a wife/husband/SO.  The only evidence I have
points the other way, I may be wrong, but We'll just have to wait and
see.

Mark