> -----Original Message----- > From: Damien Sullivan [mailto:phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:02 AM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Morganti regret (Issola spoilers within) > > > 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-) > Black is the color of sorcery. Blackwand also replaced Morrolans wizards staff. Blackwand is Morrolans familiar. I'd say that Blackwand is extra deadly in the arts of sorcerous battle. [insert your own julian fries joke here] W "Women. Can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts." ---Norm