> > And real spoilers for ISSOLA. > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:11:33PM -0400, Alexx S Kay wrote: > > > Spoiler space, so I can stop talking around possible future spoiles. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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_. > > If I'm reading Alexx correctly, he's saying that the 'black wand' > will become a Great Weapon and will bond with Morrolan only when > consuming a human soul, possibly combined with some other qualifying > event. Yes, that's what I'm saying (though I would say that "some other qualifying event" would be almost cetain, not merely possible). While we have textev that the first GWs were ceated by the Serioli "long ago", we have nothing terribly solid that says that they can't be created in "modern" times, given sufficient cause and resource (beyond the ridiculed-by-Vlad claim that there are exactly 17 of them). Here's one possible chain of events: Tazendra & Morolan meet under circumstances that, mistakenly, cause M to think that T is his enemy. M kills T. T's friends lament greatly and call M a thoughtless idiot for letting the soul of such a fine person be eaten. M asks Sethra, "So, is there any way to fix this?" Sethra says, "Only if you had a GW." M seeks out a Serioli GW expert (we know from _Dragon_ that he's met one) and convinces him to either do the job, or teach M how to do it himself. 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 "Where do we keep all our chainsaws, mom?" -- Calvin