On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Scott Schultz wrote: > > >We're talking about Sethra though. > > Sethra is many things, but she's not omnipotent. [...] I doubt she would have set things up in a way that could go so wrong. > > >Well, exactly my point. In the snippage we were discussing Blackwand. > >M has his talents, but he's not a battalion-in-a-stick as it were. My > >earlier contention (which I repeat was not well-received by the Author) > >was that M should have left B or been prevented from going. > > Firstly, you can't talk about about Blackwand without talking about > Morollan. The two are "married" in a very real sense. Where one goes, the > other goes. Barritt is the only person we've ever known to separate himself > from a Great Weapon and we don't know the circumstances that led up his > camoflage of Pathfinder and his subsequent death. Who knows? M doesn't wear B to bed or in the bath; Vlad and Loiosh aren't tied at the hip. Anyway, notice the "or" above - if M couldn't have gone without B, then he shouldn't have gone, or so goes the thesis. > To the left, you're putting a lot more emphasis on the Great Weapons than > any of the "players" in the divine game are. [...] > As for Sethra, as the Enchantress of Dzur Mountain and wielder of Iceflame > she has a lot of responsibilities, but none of those are the sort that > require her to be the caretaker of the Great Weapons. [...] I think the above is inconsistent with _Issola_, the chapter "The Shadow of the Past" to be specific. More generally, M apparently has some fate - he's not in fact easily replaceable. I don't see how Sethra or Verra can allow him to go around just putting his body wherever it seemed like a good idea. V at least should be a jealous god in this respect.