On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Casey Rousseau <casey at the-bat.net> wrote: > rone wrote: > > Raellew at aol.com writes: > > What is the difference between a soul mate and a familiar? If there > > isn't one, why does Morrolan tell Vlad he's never heard of a witch > > having two familiars? > > Yeah, especially since Brimford clearly has two familiars. > Two thoughts > 1) All the details about Brimford's familiar(s) could be fabrication on > Paarfi's part. Certainly, Loiosh, Rocza, and Ambrus show no signs of being > shape changers. We've never seen Ambrus in a situation where he might want to. <AMUSEMENT-VALUE> As for Loiosh and Rocza... well, if Vlad often survives because his normal-size jhereg pets have the capability to transform into PotD-size jhereg and munch his enemies, well, he's not going to advertise that, now is he? ("Hah! I have planned for your puny flying reptiles, Easterner scum!" "Ah, but have you planned for my /massive/ flying reptiles, elf?") </AMUSEMENT-VALUE> > 2) Is there perhaps a distinction between a witch and a warlock. Paarfi has > M use the latter to describe Brimford throughout LoCB. Vlad describes M > (and himself) as the former. Quite possibly. In modern forms of witchcraft (which are not necessarily related to Brust's), I've usually heard the distinction made about a warlock being a male witch. Others claim the distinction is about morality (ie, a warlock is an *evil* male witch). -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp