[Dragaera] Status of Great Weapons in Empire law

[Maximilian Wilson]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
> I don't remember if this is addressed in the books.
>
> In the Empire, morganti weapons are extremely highly illegal.
>
> Great weapons are in some sense morganti (including apparently an actual
> morganti weapon going into their construction); they have the same ability
> to destroy souls, which is the basis so far as I know of the distaste for
> morganti weapons.

The fact that Great Weapons, apparently unlike Morganti weapons, can
be persuaded to sometimes *not* destroy souls may be a convenient
excuse for not attempting to outlaw them, given that trying to take a
GW from its owner is a suicidally dangerous move anyway.

-Max

P.S. I wonder if, in /Taltos/, Blackwand ate the souls of the
Dragonlords Morrolan fought, or opted not to.

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