> Let's look at the "What is an artifact" question the way an Athyra (or > perhaps a Hawk) would. > > We know spellbreaker is, technically, part of a greater whole. However, if > we remove the rest of the universe in relation to it, it is a standalone > item of great power, without an attached soul (like the orb.) > I aways thought that Spellbreaker was, in some fasion intelligent and perhaps had some sort of soul in it. It certainly seems much more like an intelligent being than say the orb. Akodo Bob -who, in the middle of finals, wishes he had a morganti blade to end his suffering