> 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.