Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/24/2004 12:01:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, > Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes: > > >>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. > > > _Dragon_, pg 110 (mmpb): > "I should not, however, translate it as 'creating death'. It > would be more precise to say 'removing life-substance'. Or > perhaps 'sending the life-substance to --'." > > I really wish Morrolan hadn't interrupted at this point. Any > guesses as to what the next term would have been? Paths of > the Dead (or Halls of Judgement) is a possibility. Hrmmm... > > Iceflame -- power source > Blackwand -- getting people/souls to the PotD > Pathfinder -- tracking down the gods > Godslayer -- removing them > > You know, I very nearly think that makes sense. > > > --KG > > > Er, where is it ever suggested that Blackwand sends souls to the PotD? They pretty much "go away" so far as we know now, don't they? Or are absorbed into the sword, as it were. One assumes that something more is going on, but if the suggestion has been made that Blackwand takes or destroys those souls, one is left to assume that they don't make an immediate appearance on the Paths. Derrill