Steve Simmons wrote: >On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:12:02PM -0400, J A 'Dusty' Sayers wrote: > > > >>Warlord wrote: >> >> > > > >>>>From: Steve Simmons [mailto:scs at lokkur.dexter.mi.us] >>>> >>>> > > > >>>>Did you ever notice that no wielder of a Great Weapon is ever married? >>>>IMHO this doesn't bode well for the long-term future of a couple of >>>>romances I could mention. >>>> >>>> > . . . > > > >>Barritt was married. >> >> > >I was quite careful with my phrasing above. Barritt never wielded a >Great Weapon. He wielded the sheath for one, but was never successfully >able to use it as a Great Weapon. > > True, but the fact that he, as one man, had a great deal of influence in Dragaeran affairs, held off armies on his own, &c, implies that he used it somehow. Why he would hide it afterwards, I don't know. Of course, I could be wrong. -- J A Dusty Sayers Home Page http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/ Rescue the Princess http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/rescue/ 'Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act.' --William Shakespeare, Hamlet