Dragaera

Great Weapons

Sat Aug 16 10:59:25 PDT 2003

Just a general speculative but I think reasoned comment on why Aliera
was worth resurrecting: the GWs (which some have heretically referred to
as get-out-of-death-free cards) are principal elements in the gods' long
war with the J.  But the gods don't like GWs for personal reasons.  Hence
it behooves them to see to it that those who wield GWs are bound as
tightly as possible to the Lords of Judgement.  Morrolan has a lot more
than a casual relationship with Verra. The Gods are pretty sure about
Sethra's loyalties at this point - perhaps they have a hold on her through
Dzur Mountain in addition.  Aliera has something like a child's attachment
to Verra.  Perhaps Barrit was uppity, hence the gods arranged to have him
worked.  Perhaps it is an extremely rare soul that can bond with a GW, and
perhaps PF is a particularly difficult case (for one thing it doesn't seem
to have a gendered person inside - perhaps this is Drien, who Aliera
presumably knew; perhaps it is something godlike, which Aliera could
commune with based on her ancestry).  This sort of begs the question, why
risk the well-bound Morrolan, but on the one hand since PF and GS seem to
be related the gods would at worst get two for one, and on the same hand
perhaps the gods could somehow know M would escape.

Given the above argument, and Vlad's complicated relationship with V, and
the particular nature of his GW, I wonder if we'll see more tension on
this in future.  A Liz Phair song is running through my head: "I can't
believe they let you run around free..."