The idea that Godslayer could give Vlad phenomenal cosmic powers with sorcery or witchcraft is, to be entirely honest, faintly ridiculous to me. We -are- talking about the 'created from that gold-Phoenix-stone-like artifact Spellbreaker' Godslayer, right? That it enables Vlad to see the lines of force, okay, I can see that; it aids him in detecting sorcerous (and other) defenses, and then in destroying them. But great powers, healing or otherwise? Come on. In my opinion, the healing of his arm -- 'trivial' -- was merely another exercise of the Spellbreaker ability. Instead of thinking of the Jenoine weapon that did the damage as the bullet type, think of it as a sorcerous tranquilizer gun. The tranquilizer was sorcerous in origin, a pre-programmed spell, if you woould, and being thus energy, would -- like any field of energy that isn't constantly or consistently revitalized -- obey the laws of entropy and thus slowly fade away, disperse, or (as Sethra puts it) 'heal on its own'. But until it DID finally fade away, it's still there, still doing its job. Godslayer, from Spellbreaker, is there to -destroy- spells. Interestingly enough, from its Morganti origins (recall the 'what is the soul' discussion?), is constructed to consume/destroy sorcerous fields. If the 'damage' done to Vlad's arm is a slowly-dwindling spell effect, then of -course- Godslayer could 'repair the damage' -- merely by destroying the spell and/or consuming that sorcerous field. Giving Vlad other powers, building his sorcerous abilities to incredible levels, becoming 'god out of the machine'? I don't think so. S. Thomas Crain Author-in-Training __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com