> >>Alexx S Kay wrote: > >> > >> > >> > > > >Spoiler space, so I can stop talking around possible future spoilers. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>>Certain speculations that have passed over this list before involve a=20 > >>>death that would result neither in Deathgate nor in reincarnation. I > >>>am being vague because I think that they're right, and that it's a huge > >>>spoiler. > >>> > >>Wouldn't these speculations be now moot, seeing as a certain Dragon has=20 > >>already linked to the appropriate object? > > > >Morrolan has a big Morganti weapon he refers to as his "black wand" > >(note the lack of capitalization), and which none of the better-informed > >people in his retinue have yet referred to as a Great Weapon. > > > >Remember, in _Issola_, how a powerful Morganti blade only became a GW > >when combined with a human soul? I believe that we'll be seeing a > >similar scene at some point in _Sethra Lavode_. > > > Hmm. When you put it that way, I'm almost convinced. [snip arguments against] I'll grant that my case is not ironclad, but it should be settled one way or another in the next book, I expect. I wonder if, in the next book, we will get to see the first meeting between Morollan and the unnamed Serioli from _Dragon_ -- who, incidentally, appears to be an expert on the subject of Great Weapons... Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx Forewarned is half an octopus. [Seen on a Nancy Button, http://www.nancybuttons.com/]