> We know they have in common the ability to destroy ("eat") a soul.
> Since that's *the* defining characteristic of Morganti blades, it
> seems to make sense to call Blackwand Morganti.
[...]
> I'm not sure we can project any *other* "typical Morganti features"
> onto Great Weapons, though; that one is such a big deal that it
> overshadows everything else, and is enough on its own to justify the
> connection.
One other thing they both have in common: they "assault the mind" when
unsheathed (and to a lesser extent when sheathed).
> >>> In the specific metaphysics of this world, _are_ souls
> >>> destructible?
[...]
> >> Yes; ordinary morganti weapons destroy them.
> >
> > Says Vlad. Do we trust his perspective here? Morrolan's cut off
> > description of Blackwand could be read to imply otherwise. Here
> > is where the similarities and differeneces between Blackwand and
> > a typical Morganti migh be very important indeed.
>
> Most of what we see is from Vlad's perspective, but it seems to me
> that Morganti killings are particularly serious precisely because they
> destory the soul. That comes up often enough, and is important enough
> in different contexts, that it seems very unlikely that Vlad is
> completely mistaken about it.
I think the souls are taken, even by "ordinary" morganti weapons.
Taken and sent elsewhere, or taken and consumned by the weapon, I'm not
sure.
In Issola, the morganti weapon didn't "destroy" the soul in the act of
killing the victim, it pulled the soul into itself:
Issola, hardcover, pg 241 "[SPOILER] was inside the dagger, somewhere,
somehow, and I was going to go get [SPOILER] or... well, I was going to go
get [SPOILER]."
We don't know what the weapon would have done with the soul if Vlad hadn't
followed it, but it didn't simply destroy the soul in the act of killing its
victim.
Bryan