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

[Louis Eastman]

The Serioli created Morganti weapons to stop wars from being fought.
Morganti weapons have sentience, but not a soul.

Then the Serioli said, man, these gods suck. Let's kill 'em. And so
they made 17 Great Weapons, especially powerful Morganti weapons,
with actual souls/personalities/both/same thing, and with what I suspect
a willing soul to go in the weapon. It'd be pretty hard to, you know,
convince
someone to risk their soul to make a really powerful weapon that they can't
use.

On 8/11/06, tom sausman <inuyashadontask at netscape.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >I doubt it is part of the 17 Great (Morganti, and therefore
> >Serioli-created) Weapons
> >
>             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:
> >
> >
> >>Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net>
> >>Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info
> >>08/11/06 06:48 AM
> >>
> >>To
> >>
> >>cc
> >>dragaera at dragaera.info
> >>Subject
> >>Re: [Dragaera] (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 7:42 AM Gaertk at aol.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>Heh. Referring here to the Orb, perhaps?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >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).
> >
> >
> >>>He's not the only one to refer to "The 17", meaning Great Weapons.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>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).
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >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...
> >
> >Jose
> >
> >
> >
>
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