Scott Schultz wrote: >>> Do we know exactly how Aleira's soul was put into that staff? >> > > What we know from Sethra is that Loraan found the soul "lying in a > field". He put it in the staff and stuck the staff into his magical > soul analyzer. > > I have no clue what a soul tossed into a cornfield by the equivalent > of a nuclear explosion would look like but I've always liked the > imagery. That reminds me of what happened in Saberhagen's _Empire of the East_.