Dragaera

Morganti regret (Issola spoilers within)

yaga at berkano.pair.com yaga at berkano.pair.com
Sat Feb 21 21:56:22 PST 2004

It hadn't occurred to me at the time, but given that Spellbreaker was known to change length from time to time,
both in terms of overall and link-size, perhaps a characteristic of Godslayer will be its blade adjusting
similarly.  

Granted, Spellbreaker is but wrapped around the handle as part of Godslayer, but given that Lady Teldra's nature is to
ensure that her guests have everything they need and she is now both a part of the blade and the chain, I don't
think it would be too improbably for her to conform Godslayer to suit Vlad's needs.

Which leads me to wonder if that might not be an excellent narrative device for SKZB; Godslayer changing size to
suit Vlad's needs on some occasion (more rapier-like in a duel, wide and short to chop some would-be assassin's
head off that he can send it back to the contractor).  It may also serve as a way for Vlad to 'communicate' with
Teldra -- he ask what he should do in some situation, Godslayer becomes too big to be removed from its sheath, and
so Vlad cannot draw the weapon to, say, exact some petty revenge, and so Vlad must come up with some other plan.
An interesting collary to this of course would be whether Lady Teldra would ever let Vlad turn Godslayer on
Moorrlan...

- Peter / Yaga


  

> Well.  As I recall it was an exceptionally long dagger.  A long dagger 
> for a Dragaeraean is a VERY long dagger for an easterner.  So, although 
> not a foil or eppe (or whatever Vlad uses), it's certainly pretty long, 
> and could probably be used pretty well.  Iceflame is a dagger, and 
> Sethra seems to have no trouble at all.  As I recall in FHYA, Aliera 
> challenges Sethra to a duel (one of the many times) and says that even 
> though Sethra only has a dagger, she is not disadvantaged if she were 
> to fight Aliera when Aliera has a sword.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
>   On Feb 21, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Dave Cooper wrote:
> 
> > After reading Issola, the regret I have is that the morganti weapon 
> > that was transformed was a long dagger, rather than the fencing weapon 
> > that Vlad is used to.  He is, of course versed in the use of hand to 
> > hand dagger fighting, but his preffered method is foil and dagger.  
> > Now Iceflame is a dagger, but both Blackwand and Pathfinder are full 
> > sized swords, and thus more effective in battle, especially since 
> > Great weps AND morganti weps can kill with the smallest scratch.  The 
> > dagger used in the left hand is for defence and coup de grace strokes, 
> > not for light strokes.
> >
> > From the Issola reading, I get the impression that Lady Teldra is just 
> > a bit shorter and much thinner than a machete, more like a thin viking 
> > sax.  I just think that she would have prefered a larger home. ))
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > PS> I was just sick of the Robert Jordan threads... wanted to start 
> > something different.
> >
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