--- "jeff G." <log0n5150 at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hmmm, I had always gone along the lines of > > consumption of the soul, Lady > > Teldra's fate in Issola and Vlad's "journey" seem to > > support that. Another > > line of questioning, what defines a powerful > > Morganti weapon? As they are > > all death dealing ravagers of the soul, is the > > perception of their power > > based on the weapons aura? Also, if more souls are > > consumed, does the weapon > > become more powerful? > > Well, loooking at Teldra's fate might be a good clue. > Apparently the threads of the soul still do exist at > least for a time in the MOrganti weapon. I think we know that only for Great Weapons, and maybe only for the initial "sacrifice". > Which, of > course, leads us to believe that the other GWs were > made in similar fashions involving a 'sentient' > sacrifice. I suspect so. > Blackwand obviously swallowed someone very angry :) If we believe Paarfi, this must have happened before Morrolan got it. At least that's implied by the omission of any description of Blackwand's awakening. However, much as I usually disfavor explanations based on the narrators' unreliability, I wouldn't count on Paarfi to know about this. > Pathfinder,... perhaps a mystic of some sort,... a > devotee of a god? > > NO IDEA on Iceflame... though there have been some > theories bantered about inthe forum about it possibily > being Jenoie technology and Dzur mountain being a > spaceship of somesort. It will be a surprise if Iceflame is anything but Serioli techology, like the other Great Weapons. Of course, we could be suprised. > __________________________________ > > > I never really cared for the Dzur Mountain/starship theory, (Why does > God > need a starship?) beings that can transport themselves across > dimensional > barriers at will don't need such a physically based vehicle. Humans may have gotten to Dragaera from "the little lights in the sky" by a starship. After all, teleportation was pretty much impossible before the Interregnum, and teleportation to an unexplored planet may still be impossible. However, I'm with you on the theory. I haven't noticed any hints that Dzur Mountain is a starship. > I am inclined > to believe it is a Jenoine construct designed to study amorphia, as > Dragarea > is the only place it is know to exist, according to Sethra. Iceflame is > the > avatar or focal point for that construct. Well, I haven't noticed any hints for that either. I'm willing to wait and see. > Hmm, a thought just occurred. Maybe the difference in Morganti weapons > is > how long they hold the soul of those they consume? A weak one absorbs > the > soul, and disperses it (or whatever they do with them), a more powerful > one > holds that soul in itself for a time, and a Great Weapon bonds with a > particular soul as part of its creation? The slow destruction of a soul > could account for the uncomfortable feeling Vlad experiences in close > proximity to Morganti weapons. Interesting. That speculation makes sense, but if I'd thought of it I'd have guessed that the stronger ones destroy the souls faster. We just don't know. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail