Scott Schultz wrote: >>I think it's an allusion to _Lord Valentine's Castle_ but >>it's been so long since I read it that I can't give you >>anything more specific. >> > > > I haven't read that story so can't comment on the comparison. "The Princess > Bride" comes to mind for me because Fezzig's distinguishing feature was that > he was a giant (in the extremely huge man sense, not the fantasy sense) > hence the admonition to "dream of large women". One of the more noticable of > Vlad's distinguishing characteristics is his whiskers, so the allusion works > the same. The fact that Vlad is completely confused by it is just icing on > the cake. ;-) > > > >>Are you so sure? Blackwand is very fierce. Do Iceflame and >>Pathfinder have anything like that effect on Vlad or on >>others? I'm sure Lady Teldra wouldn't want to disturb people >>unnecessarily. >> > > > You could be right. I can't recall any specific times that Vlad complained > about Pathfinder or Iceflame, so maybe Blackwand's personality just makes it > like that. > > It's hard to say what Godslayer will be like. We need to remember that it's > personality is based on the remnants or Teldra but it's NOT her. Her soul > was destroyed as surely as anyone who's cut by a Morganti weapon. Godslayer > is a new personality built from fragments of Teldra woven into whatever > personality was already built into Spellbreaker. It will be interesting when > it awakens but it will be something other than Lady Teldra. It won't be the Issola in the flesh, obviously, but I think that from Vlad's reaction and the description of the personality, the weapon is more Teldra than knife. He won't be calling it Godslayer, either. Jose -- Jose Marquez \ Cthulhu 2004 jhereg69 at earthlink.net \ Why vote for http://home.earthlink.net/~jhereg69 \ the lesser evil?