On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:35:55PM -0400, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Kenneth Gorelick wrote: > > #Why do you think that Morrolan PUT the soul in the sword? The Great > #weapons were created long ago, with only Godslayer having been delayed > #by the gods themselves. > > Do we have textev for that? (I'm not Kenneth, but I'll play him on the net for a minute. :-)) Yes and no. We have clear evidence that Pathfinder was *not* created by the current wielder, and no evidence that any other weapon was created by the current wielder. We *do* have clear evidence (Sethras comments about 'waking up' near the end of Issola) that Godslayer may have a personality that is essentially Teldras. We know from numerous references that Great Weapons have personalities. And we know that all Morganti weapons are 'semi-sentient' (I think that was the phrase used). We know from early Vlad books that a Great Weapon can temporarily hold the soul of it's wielder and later release it. But we don't know if the absorption of a soul is a necessary part of the creation of a Great Weapon. Nor do we even know if it's a necessary part of the creation of Godslayer. We should bear in mind that what we see in Issola is the *reassembly* of Godslayer >from Spellbreaker, a Morganti dagger, and Teldra. Of those three parts, it may well be that only Spellbreaker was part of the original Godslayer. >From text, I think that's all we really know. Which, by omission, means we don't know *who* disassembled Godslayer. But Sethra might, and IMHO Verra knows as well.