[Dragaera] (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons]

[tom sausman]

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>I doubt it is part of the 17 Great (Morganti, and therefore 
>Serioli-created) Weapons
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            A lot of things:
                                     The Serioli created Morganti 
weapons to stop interal fighting,but at the same time to kill the "gods" 
Which one is correct?
                                      The Serioli created Morganti 
weapons to kill the "gods" the gods, can be killed by the more powerful 
ones, the gods destory the more powerful ones. The question is if the 
fighting stop between tribes of the Serioli and only the "17" kill gods 
why make so many? ( Morrolan and Braitt just for examples have whole 
rooms full ) Also why don't they desoryed them, themselfs? ( the Serioli 
are rarer than the Cat-Centurs, you know what I mean)
                                       If only the GW have a predominant 
souls, couldn't the Serioli just make more GW or even someone just as 
powerful, Sethra should know how to, after all she knew about Godslayer.
                     


Jose Marquez wrote:

>Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:
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>>Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> 
>>Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info
>>08/11/06 06:48 AM
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>>Re: [Dragaera] (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons]
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>>>On 7:42 AM Gaertk at aol.com wrote:
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>>>> Vlad (who, of course, is never wrong about anything) said "legend
>>>> says 17". Since their creators don't have any reason to find the
>>>> number 17 special, I'd say the actual chances of there being exactly
>>>> 17 at any time are practically nil. I also believe there are at
>>>> least a couple Great Non-Weapons.
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>>Heh. Referring here to the Orb, perhaps?
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>The Orb was not created by the Serioli. While they might have a name for 
>it, I doubt it is part of the 17 Great (Morganti, and therefore 
>Serioli-created) Weapons. They probably also have a name for Morrolan 
>(Tall-pretentious-wizard-for-creating-death-in-the-form-of-&c.), but 
>that doesn't make him a Great Weapon either (he's an Awesome Weapon! Uh, 
>never mind).
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>>>He's not the only one to refer to "The 17", meaning Great Weapons.
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>>17 is not only the mystical number of Dragaerans, it's the mystical number 
>>of the cycle itself, which has (apparently) existed since long before the 
>>creation of Dragaera (the planet itself). 
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>>Saying that 17 means nothing to the Serioli, just because they're not 
>>"Dragaerans" is ludicrous. They're the only true natives on the planet. 17 
>>means, if anything, MORE to them than to any of the "alien invaders" 
>>(Easterners, Dragaerans, Jenoine, etc) who have arrived over the years.
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>That could be; the original Dragaeran tribes were 31, and the Easterners 
>do not seem to have any particular attachment to 17. I imagine that an 
>Empire built on top of a mystical, catastrophic event as harnessed by a 
>powerful artifact might take on the characteristics underlying it. So if 
>the Empire is built on the Greater Sea of Chaos, which is harnessed by 
>the Orb, which is a gift from the gods, who have hitched their train, so 
>to speak, to the Cycle, a speculation based on the common knowledge 
>among Dragaerans that the physical representation of the Cycle is that 
>wheel in the Halls of Judgment, which is where the gods hang out, well, 
>then you end up with a really long run-on sentence. But the main idea is 
>that all of that would pararectally put the Empiricals in sync with the 
>Cycle. I wonder when the number 17 really took hold in Dragaeran 
>society. I bet Sethra knows...
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>Jose
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