In a message dated 2/26/2004 6:30:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Bryan Newell" <bryann at bryann.net> writes: >> 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 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: [snip] > 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. The soul may not have been destroyed, but it did seem to be a shredded. [And this is almost certainly a special case.] --KG