On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:46:12 -0500, you wrote: >Ryan Grove wrote: > >> Jot Powers wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:15:47PM +0000, Mark Tiller wrote: >> >>I don't remember seeing a wielder of a great weapon who >> >>had/has a partner. >> > >> > Aliera & Mario. >> >> I wouldn't call Aliera and Mario partners. > >Even if you discount those two, don't forget Barrit had a great weapons AND >enough descendents that e'Barrits show up from time to time in the texts. >Considering the Dragaeran stigma against bastardy, it seems likely that >Barrit was married at some point and (hopefully) had a meaningful romantic >attachment to Mrs Barrit at the time. > >Of course, as someone has suggested on the list, perhaps such attachments >(Vlad & Cawti, Aliera & Mario, Barrit & Mrs Barrit) worked because they >existed before the owner of the Great Weapon actually had that honour. > >J A Dusty Sayers > OTOH, Barritt never actually became "linked" to Pathfinder that we could tell. -- lazarus "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public." -- Theodore Roosevelt