--- Erik Holmes <shoby187 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Spoiler Space: > - > - > - > - > - > - > - > - > - > - > - > - > > > (Godslayer) was able to heal him, but I wonder if this (and a > lot of other things he might be able to do) > might have been just from having access to a lot > more raw magical power then before. I seem to > remember reading in one of the Vlad books that the > great weapons themselves were pretty much items > of pure amorphia, granting their owners far more raw > magical power to work with. If true it's > possible that Vlad might become a much more powerful > Sorcerer then before. Not exactly true; the Great Weapons are items that tap directly into amorphia, which is to say that they use 'Pre-Empire' sorcery, or mystic/psychic styles that are so similar as to make no nevermind. The fact that Vlad is, in one sense, playing at a WHOLE new level means that he's got a new slew of enemies; the fact that he's still an Easterner ex-assassin casual-sorcerer casual-witch fencer with a jhereg and its mate on his shoulders and the entire Verra-be-damned House of Jhereg after his head means that his old enemies still have a pretty decent chance of doing serious damage to him. Godslayer may be a Great Weapon and thus scare the piss out of everyone around her when she's drawn (likely), but she IS still a dagger -- and there IS still only one of Vlad, although he's been damn lucky in the past... > When Vlad killed the Jenoine he also described being > filled with a rush of power, energy, and > well-being. This might suggest that Godslayer has > the ability to absorb the power of those it > kills... Nope. Go back to the descriptions of the three Great Weapons whose acquisitions are told -- Lady Teldra, Blackwand, and Pathfinder. In each and every example, the new wielder, the -right- wielder, has felt that same rushing surge of power, energy, and well-being. (And now Vlad knows the reason behind that, and I'm pretty sure I do, too.) > Maybe by killing a god Vlad himself would > come closer to becoming on himself. (It'd be > about time the easterners got their own god). Easterners have plenty of gods. > After the Jenoine fled Vlad also felt like he might > start emitting sparks, and thought he might > really do it if he wasn't careful, so maybe that's > another ability too ;) Heh. I can see the conversation now. "What do your Great Weapons do?"\ "Hi, I'm Morrolan, and Blackwand destroys armies." "I'm Aliera, and Pathfinder locates anything." "I'm Vlad, and Godslayer lets me emit sparks." "..." "..." "..." "... err, yeah. That's about it." S. Thomas Crain Author-in-Training ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com