On 7/7/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote:
>
> It's interesting that he has this in /Issola/, while it's not present in
> /Athyra/ or /Orca/.
>
Actually, he does have them in /Orca/, as a quick Amazon search inside finds:
[Begin cite]
"I put the remains of the Chreotha disguise in the bag, took off the
gold Phoenix Stone, and teleported the bag to a spot I knew well just
off the coast of Adrilankha"
[End cite]
[Begin cite]
I was a competent sorcerer, but as long as I wore the gold Phoenix
Stone, it didn't help a bit, and whenever I removed it, even for an
instant, I was risking rather more than my life
[End cite]
[Begin cite]
especially now, when, between the gold and the black Phoenix Sx he
wears, he is entirely cut off from those who would be most willing and
able to help him.
[End cite]
And so on.
("Stones" has been mispelled as "Sx" in that part of /Orca/ since the
Ace paperback, as I recall)
I suppose the middle citation is the defensive argument for the gold stone.
As far as I can tell, the stones are not mentioned by color in
/Athyra/ (I think Savn notes that Vlad takes something off his neck
before doing magic, but obviously, Vlad doesn't say what they are, so
"search inside" is not helping me find where those scenes are or how
the things being removed are described).