Dragaera

On Great Weapons and Marriages

Tue Apr 27 18:02:18 PDT 2004

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, David Goldfarb wrote:

> Her relative youth, and also the social unacceptability of cross-House
> marriage.  She can't marry cross-House, and she can't marry within
> her own House, so she pretty much can't marry at all.

There might be Tortaalik's sister...


Steve Simmons wrote:

> Barritt never wielded a Great Weapon.  He wielded the sheath for one,
> but was never successfully able to use it as a Great Weapon.

This strikes me as much too definitive a statement.  For all we know (as
far as I know), Baritt may have fully used PF but for reasons of secrecy
(to avoid interference from Sethra/the Gods, or just to develop a
mystique) kept it hidden.  His assassin would have had to have been a bit
cleverer if so, but I'm unaware of clear reason to conclude he couldn't
use the sword as designed.