> >yaga at berkano.pair.com wrote: > > > >>I don't know if this has been mentioned, (I wouldn't be surprised if > >>it had and I've merely forgotten...) but I'm wondering; if someone > >>is unrevivifiable, they still get the Deathgate Special, descend to > >>the Paths, and are eligible for re-incarnation, yes? > > > >>So...couldn't _any_ necromancer contact ye olde dead while still > >>among the Paths and asked who killed them? > > > >******* No. Morganti weapons "eat" or "destroy" the soul. The > >essense of that being it then lost. Now whether there is some way > >to get them out of the weapon after that.... > > I believe you misunderstood the term "unrevivifiable", which, while it > *can* mean "killed with a Morganti weapon", more typically means > "killed in such a way that the brain is damaged or the spinal cord is > severed" or, alternatively, "killed, and the corpse inflicted with a > sorcerous spell to prevent revivification". Such persons are indeed > permanently dead, but their souls presumably go to whereever it is the > souls of dead people go. > > That being said, I think it highly unlikely that said souls can be > subpoened into murder investigations, since then assassins would > *only* be able to either "work" once or only "work" Morganti. *nod* I was speaking of the dagger-in-the-eye, hide-the-corpse flavors of making a person unrevivifiable. And am I wrong in thinking that souls going to the Paths aren't fully incomunicado? And no, while you couldn't put a soul under the Star, wouldn't someone who'd *spoken* to the soul be able to give witness under the Star to what they said about their deaths? ...I think I'm going to have to re-read the series to figure this out if anyone else doesn' have a handle on it already *cough* Steven? *cough* > > [Spoilers for /Lord of Castle Black/] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I note that in LoCB, what the Necromancer does is to re-animate all of > the enemy corpses on the battlefield, rather than re-insert their > souls (which would be true revivification as we see in the Vlad > novels). I would guess that what she is doing is manipulating the > life-states of the bodies, raising them to the level of brute animal > life, and then directing their actions. > > But then, we may not have seen the limit of what the Necromancer can > do. Perhaps she, of all necromancers, *could* contact souls who have > Moved On. > >