On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 18:16, Philip Hart wrote: > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Teddywolf wrote: > > > David Silberstein wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, James Griffin wrote: > > > >Spoiler Warning: these questions assume fairly complete knowlege of > > > >most of the Vlad books. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now admittedly Noish-pa probably isn't that powerful and shows > > definite signs of age, and he's likely a better witch than his grandson, > > yet he seems to still be quite active for someone his age and could still > > hold his own in a duel. > > Vlad is able to heal himself with trivial effort using LT (wonder how long > he'll be nine-fingered [by the way, is this a LotR reference? - if so note > that the ring conferred long life]) - something Aliera (a noted medic) and > Sethra (and Verra for that matter) couldn't do. I would guess he can fix > up his telomeres or whatever is involved in aging with a little effort. I'm AFB and its been a while since I read _I_, but wasn't the ailment in Vlad's arm caused by magic? I look at it as the making of Godslayer is similar to the moment earlier in _I_ when he broke the glammer on him.. that he was mentally linked with Spellbreaker and thus able to use its abilities on himself. In case that wasn't clear, I think the only reason Vlad was able to cure his arm is because it was caused by magic and Spellbreaker/Godslayer tends to disrupt magic.