-----Original Message----- From: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info [mailto:dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:37 PM Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: Re: Allam, and Communism J C wrote: >The only thing I don't like about Allam as a Great Weapon is that it seems >to be to be a little too much trying to label and categorize the magic on >Dragaera. We know for a fact that there are at least two major forms of >magic, and probably a third and fourth if Serioli and Jenoine are 1) both >forms of magic and 2) not the same type of magic. > > -What is the defining characteristic that makes a weapon Great? What -happens when that same characteristic is applied to a non-weapon? Pardon me if I'm wrong, but a Great Weapon is exclusively the creation of the serioli (sp), is it not? Kieron's greatsword, in as much as we know anything of it, functions as a large piece of stabbity-hack metal, a potent symbol of conquest, and potentially a talisman to draw the soul of Kieron from the paths....which, by vote of irony, I hope goes into an easterner who recovers it from StY's smoking corpse. So, aside from all else, was Allam made by our serioli friends? andy