On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:02:33PM -0600, 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, in that scene, Morrolan is And how good do you think that evidence is of what the magical-wand-for-causing-death-in-the-form-of-a-great-sword is doing? Eating souls, maybe. Causing death and terror, certainly. I don't think the Serioli name is just about it being Morganti. I think Blackwand is extra deadly, in some sense. -xx- Damien X-)