"Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/05/06 11:18 AM To "'Dragaera List'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject RE: Yuck >I'm not so sure about the lack of textev. > >"I managed to support myself and saw Loraan. My knife was in his stomach, >and there was a large cut, as from a sword, in his chest directly over the >heart. He seemed to be rather dead." > >The fact that we didn't see Blackwand strike Loraan "on-screen" isn't really >germane. Unless someone was to suggest that Loraan stabbed himself with a >sword and Steve just didn't bother telling us about it. That seems a little >far-fetched. Couple this with the "take it up with Blackwand" comment and >you'd have a hard time arguing that textev doesn't support Blackwand >striking Loraan. Morollan certainly seems to believe she did so. (Maybe the >quibble is with the words "run through", though?) One thing I noticed when re-reading this passage, was that Vlad had nailed Loraan with a thrown dagger moments before. Now, under the "It-can't-get-any-worse rule", a person who is already dead is immune to the morganti soul-destroying effect... So, tenative theory: 1. Vlad nails Loraan with a dagger in an especially bad spot, killing him instantly. 2. Blackwand swipes Loraan across the chest, but since he's dead, his soul is safe. 3. One of Loraan's guards comes around and revivifies him later. Of course, this is by no means conclusive, and depends on a rather abrupt deminse on the part of Loraan to work. We may be dealing with the whole "soul-in-a-box" (or equivilent) situation here instead. I've more or less suspended my judgement on this point, after debating about it for the wiki article on Loraan. If Steve chooses to tell us what happened, it'll answer it, if not, I don't think we have enough information to say for sure one way or the other. Majikjon