You forgot one . . . the Orb, IIRC, is also a Great Weapon. Mia Steve Simmons wrote: >On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:48:31AM -0700, Maximilian Wilson wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:39:30 -0500, Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> wrote: >> >> > > > >>>If Vlad wants to return, the threat of Godslayer alone will probably be >>>sufficient to stop most assassins. >>> >>> >>Sure. Probably not any of the good ones, though, since you normally >>don't figure on the target fighting back anyway. The Jhereg were >>willing to go after Sethra Lavode in Dzur Mountain during the >>Dragon-Jhereg war, at least until she destroyed a number of assassins. >>(Heh heh heh.) I think Godslayer makes a better _pretext_ for backing >>off than an actual defense--it would probably have to be pretty much >>as Scott Schultz suggested, the Demon waking up to find Godslayer >>pointed at his eye. >> >> > >Come to think of it, it may well be that most Jhereg have very little >idea of just what a Great Weapon can do. Consider - there are only four >we know enough of to name the holder. Of those four, two have only >surfaced in the past few years (Godslayer, Pathfinder), one in the past >two centuries (Blackwand), and one has been largely in exile (Iceflame) >since Sethra died. Consider also that Vlad is startled as all hell when >Blackwand continues defending the dead Morrolan. I'd hazard a guess that >your average Jhereg on the street doesn't have a clue to what a Great >Weapon *really* is. And thus Godslayers reputation gives Vlad no more >protection than any other Morganti blade. > >Until, of course, the first successful assasination attempt. Someone >takes out Vlad with a Morganti blade. Vlads dead hand, weilded by >Godslayer, kills the assasin. Sethra and Morrolan pop in and revivify >Vlad. While Vlad sits there groggy, they drop a few words to the passers >by neither they nor Godslayer are going to be real tolerant of any future >attempts. > >The Jhereg Council promptly shits it collective pants and becomes very >amenable to negotiation. > >I'd pay to read that scene. > > . . . > > >>>If Brust wants to bring Vlad back to town, there are no more ifs: he can >>>do it. >>> >>> >>Sure, but it has to be done in a way that's "cool." >> >> > >IMHO the above is cool, but I'm only Steve, not Steve Brust. :-) > > > >>P.S. Much as he would hate to admit it, I think Vlad fits in better >>with the Dragons than with the Jhereg . . . >> >> > >Nice analysis. I think you're right. > >