On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 03:33:51PM -0500, Johne Cook wrote: > Steve Simmons wrote > > 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. > How would this affect Zerika and her relationship (?) with the Orb? I'm > guessing that's a different thing because the Great Weapons appear to have > a spiritual symbiotic relationship with their host while the Orb appears to > be, uh, "other". We've only seen two emperors, and Tortaalik was clearly married. Zerika is not, but that's likely due to hre relative youth and the social inappropriateness of her current lover. > btw, is this, perhaps, why Vlad and Cawti weren't able to make it? > Spellbreaker was a latent great weapon and was even then passively arguing > against their successful relationship? IMHO there were plenty of problems between Vlad and Cawti (cf my post of a few years back) that led to that. And if my implied hypothesis is correct, it wouldn't have been a problem until Godslayer was reconstituted. -- "Offense thieves -- they take it when it isn't offered." -- another definition by Tom Digby