On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Genji wrote: > >I have heard several times on this list that Godslayer was dismantled >.... I don't recall reading this myself. Where is that from? The >quote that sticks in my mind is when the serioli tells vlad something >like it is not yet a weapon. Nothing saying it used to be. > Since I happen to have /Dragon/ right here, I will note that the Serioli says, on the one hand: "Someday there will be a weapon called 'Remover of aspects of deity'". On the other hand, he also says: "The two artifacts were, or are to be, created together --", which ambiguifies the causality and sequence. But I note the paragraph following that little temporal brain-breaker says that "Some of our people desired divinity and crafted artifacts to find and destroy those who sit on the Thrones of Judgment. One of these became [Pathfinder]. [...] The other was taken by the Gods, and an attempt was made to destroy it." What I note about the paragraph is that while the first weapon is obviously Pathfinder, the second artifact's name and nature are not stated. Which suggests to me that perhaps it was not complete, that it had the potential to be Godslayer - which was why the Gods tried to destroy it - but it was not Godslayer until Vlad completed it. Perhaps the addition of a soul was in fact what was necessary?