Which makes Zerika the only non-Dragon (that we're aware of) who holds a great weapon. > --------------040604030607080609060102 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > 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. > > > > > > --------------040604030607080609060102-- > >