----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Stone" <knots4kcs at yahoo.com> To: "dragaera" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:24 AM Subject: RE: Really, really, really stupid question snip > Good point. It seems that by Dragon (the room > full of Morganti weapons) that perceptions may > have switched. Easterners (or maybe just > Vlad, or maybe just ones over in the Empire) > have a superstitious dread of Morganti weapons > that don't seem to bother the Dragaerians so > much at that point. I get the feeling that > Morganti weapons arn't as commonplace during > _TPG_ as they are now. Perhaps the Jhereg > were still on the mend from the disaster and > from the last Dragon-Jhereg war. snip My guess on Vlad's hypersensitivity to morganti weapons is that it was related to his destiny to rebuild and wield a great weapon. I think part of the equation was that he needed to find a suitable morganti for the rebuild, and his sensitivity is linked to that process, even if he doesn't understand it. Of couse I could be way way way off base. hehehe Genji