[Dragaera] Iorich ***SPOILERS****

[Ken Koester]

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

>On Wed, January 13, 2010 07:36, Howard Brazee wrote:
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>>The spectrum may not be deep, but there will be people in every house
>>who are interested in power, who are interested in magic, who are
>>interested in the gods, who are interested in the Serioli, and who are
>>interested in the battle that created her.   And they have magical means
>>to help their researches.
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>The Great Weapons, taken as a class, include properties of value in most
>extreme and arcane arts, so all the specialists in any of those arts will
>know at least a little about Great Weapons -- they'll know there is such a
>thing, anyway, and a bit about the ones that bear on their art.
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>Lots of people in the noble houses study some of those arts.
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Suppositions.  We have no way to know how many people do this.  Nor does 
it get any further along the path of figuring out how one would know 
where a GW was at any time--I refuse to believe that GW's shout out 
their existence to all and sundry across the Empire 24/17.  (For one 
thing it would make protecting the wielder harder to do.)  Anyone 
sufficiently sensitive & skilled *might* realize it if he or she came 
into contact with Vlad, but I doubt they would otherwise.  And even 
then, maybe not if Vlad has no reason to draw.  Only Blackwand seems to 
announce itself while still sheathed.

(This raises a different question:  are there now 18 GW's?  Seems to me 
I recall Vlad saying in Jhereg that it was common knowledge there were 
17, but Lady Teldra had not yet been created.)

Snarkhunter