On 10/13/05, J C <greyw01f at hotmail.com> wrote: > Steve: > > Please forgive the egregious lack of all accent marks. Oh, that is easily remedied: Állam. > > Allam as great weapon. > > Possibility: Verra bound Fenarr into a morganti (the one that Fenarr > himself wields in TPG, or just a weapon, and made it semi-awaken as a great > weapon. Please allow me the honor of disputing with you: The Morganti sword (Sword of Faerie) that (Criono)Fenarr had in The Phoenix Guards (Prologue to Brokedown Palace) was given over to Khaavren (Kav) -- in both versions of story. Furthermore, Állam is drawn more than once in /Brokedown Palace/, and it is never described as projecting the sort of radiating field of soul-hunger that is always described when Morganti weapons (or Great Weapons) are discussed. I suppose one may ideate that it has such a field which is never described, but that seems inconsistent and unlikely. Which is not to say that Fenarr's soul was not bound to that weapon, just that it was (probably) not a Great Weapon. > "They never found his body, but they found Allam" or something like that As I recall, that was a legend. You may recall that Crionofenarr wore two swords, in TPG. One *might* have been Állam. > The great weapon (Fenarr) decides not to take Miklos' soul because of two > reasons: > > 1) He has Bolk as his horse. Note that Miklós does not in fact have Bolk when László first attacks him with Állam. > 2) His agenda is his own, which is to say, Bolk is serving him (and he is > serving Bolk), and therefore he is a true Fenarian. Fenarr's Agenda was to > create and maintain an Eastern Kingdom free from Eastern attacks, and maybe > influence. That would make Verra his enemy, and her servants enemies of him > as well. While some portion of Fenarr might have been bound to the sword, I don't think that whatever portion that was, was capable of making clear and rational decisions as you describe above. Indeed, one of the things noted about Állam was that it had the tendency to cause the wielder to become an insane berserker, forsaking rational thought for a nearly pure destructive bloodlust. > > Again, though, is Kieron's Greatsword a Great Weapon? > Unlikely, I think. It's never described as such, and as noted, Aliera was wielding it against the "Morganti greatsword" wielded by Sethra the Younger - and the Morganti greatsword didn't go boom=>Pathfinder until Morrolan and Blackwand arrived. In addition, when Sethra Lavode is explaining the Great Weapons in /Issola/, she doesn't include Kieron's sword, nor does she describe Sethra the Younger as one of the bearers of Great Weapons, which she would be if she were. Unless maybe perhaps Sethra's real name is Zungaron, which seems very unlikely to me.