[Dragaera] Some speculation on Spellbreaker

[Scott Schultz]

> Do we have positive evidence for [the dismanlting of Godslayer]?
>
> If Godslayer was ever dismantled, the question of how the Morganti
> dagger ended up in the hands of the Jenoine is definitely worth asking.
>

The Serioli in _Dragon_ tells us that the Gods attempted to destroy 
Godslayer. He's presented as an authority on these things, so we've no 
reason to doubt him. Vlad might have heard of or mentioned the story 
elsewhere in the Vladiad as well. I sort of have a memory of that but I 
can't pin it down enough to feel confident about it.

The question about the Jenoine dagger has always been "Is it the missing 
half of Godslayer or is it just a really powerful morganti dagger?" The 
answer is pretty much "It doesn't make any difference." As for "How did the 
Jenoine get it?", that's also a question that might be an interesting 
factoid but is immaterial for the purposes of the stories.

What I'd find more interesting is learning what the Jenoine hoped to 
accomplish by giving Vlad the dagger and sending him to kill Verra. Did they 
know about Spellbreaker? Did they know about Vlad's "up and down" 
relationship with Verra? Did they think he'd kill a God to save his friends? 
Did they think the dagger was strong enough to kill a God? Did they expect 
Vlad to forge Godslayer? If so, did they expect him to use Godslayer to kill 
Verra? Was it a feint? Did they have another plan completely? Was it just a 
gamble, like "We used our home-made river of chaos to perform some 
rudimentary divination and discovered 'this guy right here might kill Verra 
under the right circumstances.' Further divination said we should bring him 
together with this dagger. Whaddya say we do it and see what happens?"

I have the feeling that the Jenoine see sorcery as a new kind of technology 
and they're playing around with it in a kind of trial and error fashion. 
They're trying to understand the science behind it in a manner not very 
different from the way that nuclear scientists in the 50's were trying to 
understand nuclear physics and built a usable bomb. The fact that Verra 
identifies one or more of them as belonging to the Jenoine equivalent of the 
military probably has something to do with that impression.