Dragaera

Loraan and Spellbreaker [spoilers for Issola]

charles_sumner at harvard.edu charles_sumner at harvard.edu
Wed May 5 07:39:30 PDT 2004

In a previous message, I was speculating about how Great Weapons are mythic 
items, that would only work [or come to life, if you will] for the people 
they are destined for

This got me thinking about Spellbreaker's history...

We never found out what Loraan was doing with Spellbreaker.  He was 
researching it obviously, but to what end.  Given his interest in 
necromancy, his other known item of power (that being Aliera's soul trapped 
in a staff), and what we now know of Spellbreaker's destiny, it's not that 
much of a leap to guess that he was trying to find a way to get [or 
possibly force] Spellbreaker to bond with a soul and thus become a GW.

Of course, since that wasn't destined to happen at that time, it couldn't 
work.  GWs aren't random items, they are tools of fate, so Spellbreaker's 
transformation could only happen at the right time with the right 
people.  However, it's an interesting possibility that this may have been a 
trail that Loraan was going down.


Charley

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