On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Rachel L. Ruhlen wrote: >At 10:28 AM 2/22/2004, Jeffrey Kiok wrote: >>As I recall Morrolan once mentioned in PoTD, his great weapon will >>"do what I tell it to do" meaning it doesn't necessarily have to >>destroy the person's soul if the bearer doesn't want it to. >So in the scene in _Dragon_ where he allows Blackwand to eat the >souls of thousands of Easterners, at least according to Vlad's >account, and his evidence is the quality of their death screams, I don't know that we can conclude that, especially given that Vlad can't know for certain unless Morrolan tells him. I mean, how would somebody know whether the Big Scary Sword that Emanates a Field of Terror is going to eat his soul or not? There would be a lot of terrified screaming even if Morrolan was just waving the sword around unsheathed (as we see in /Paths of the Dead/) without hitting anyone. > in that scene, Morrolan is being a complete bastard. I don't have a >problem believing that. On the other hand, he might be that at that. Who can say?