Dragaera

musing on some stuff "spoilers"

Mon Mar 14 08:39:29 PST 2005

> From: Steve Simmons [mailto:scs at di.org]
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:11:17AM -0800, Scott Schultz wrote:
> 
> > >-What exactly are Godslayer's abilities? Pathfinder can find anything.
> > >Blackwand helps Morrolan with sorcery and witchcraft. All we know is
> > >that it has SB's gold phoenix stone properties.
> >
> > The Serioli name for Godslayer translates to "Remover of Aspects of
> > Divinity". That pretty much sums it up. Godslayer's power is that it can
> > make a god completely and permanently dead. (I suppose that technically
> its
> > power is to turn a god into a mortal. That would last about a half-
> second
> > before it ate our hypothetical god's now-mortal soul though, so the
> > end-result is the same.) . . .
> 
> Well... not necessarily.  We know that the gods, while not mortal as
> we understand it, do come and go.  We also know that two of the aspects
> (requirements, apparently) of divinity are the ability to manifest in
> multiple places at once and being immune to compulsion.  Remove either
> of those and the being stabbed is no longer a god.
> 
> The Serioli who discusses this is very careful to say that the name is
> *not* Godslayer.  IMHO, this means something.

Maybe it only removes the ability to be in multiple places/times. Having a
rather strong Morganti weapon stuck between the shoulder-blades of your only
physical body could certainly cramp your style.