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Beezy
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 22 Dec 2005 : 21:29:38
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I read Black Wolf a few weeks ago and I had a question regarding Radu Malveen's bone blade. What exactly is it? Is it much like Artemis's life stealing dagger? I am currently on Lord of Stormweather and Radu is already mentioned in the first thirty pages and it speaks of the breaking of the bone blade when Radu killed his brother with it. The shards went into Radu and now any blade he uses to kill someone with is leaving them as a ghost that has to follow him around.
I was wondering if this bone blade is a specific sort of vampiric weapon or if it is just another version of Artmes's dagger. Are these ghosts always around when one uses these sorts of blades to kill someone or is that an effect opf the shattering of the blade?
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Chosen of Bane
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Posted - 22 Dec 2005 : 22:00:07
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I don't see the dagger as being the same thing as Artemis's dagger. He doesn't seem to gain energy from the dagger like Artemis and Artemis doesn't seem to have ghosts following him around.
I don't know of any game mechanical description for Radu's dagger, I think it was just more of a story device for a novel, not something that's necessarily statted out. |
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J D Dunsany
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 22 Dec 2005 : 22:23:05
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Given the book's subject matter, it seems like a pretty cool device for incorporating certain elements from 'An American Werewolf In London' - namely the tormenting ghosts of Radu's victims following him around in much the same way as the werewolf character's victims follow him around in the film. (There's a very amusing scene in an ... ahem... 'adult' cinema in the film, iirc.  )
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is developed further in 'Lord of Stormweather', when a reasonably important character from 'Black Wolf' is able to use this to his advantage.
Yours,
JDD |
"How content that young woman looks, don't you think? How content, and yet how flammable." - Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography |
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Beezy
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 24 Dec 2005 : 05:09:13
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Originally posted by Chosen of Bane
I don't see the dagger as being the same thing as Artemis's dagger. He doesn't seem to gain energy from the dagger like Artemis and Artemis doesn't seem to have ghosts following him around.
I don't know of any game mechanical description for Radu's dagger, I think it was just more of a story device for a novel, not something that's necessarily statted out.
Have you read Lord of Stormweather? Everytime he kills someone the blade gives me extra strength and such for two days. So it is similar to the life stealing dagger Artemis had. |
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J D Dunsany
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Dec 2005 : 08:45:39
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Originally posted by Beezy
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Originally posted by Chosen of Bane
I don't see the dagger as being the same thing as Artemis's dagger. He doesn't seem to gain energy from the dagger like Artemis and Artemis doesn't seem to have ghosts following him around.
I don't know of any game mechanical description for Radu's dagger, I think it was just more of a story device for a novel, not something that's necessarily statted out.
Have you read Lord of Stormweather? Everytime he kills someone the blade gives me extra strength and such for two days. So it is similar to the life stealing dagger Artemis had.
Isn't it more of an addiction? He has to keep using it in order to live after the horrible injuries he's suffered at the end of 'Black Wolf'. He doesn't use the blade as a 'buff' but as a means of survival - it's that element of compulsion that makes it so horrible. (And effective as a piece of writing, Mr Gross!) Of course, Artemis Entreri might use the dagger in the same way. I don't know. I've only just started reading 'Streams of Silver'!
Yours,
JDD |
"How content that young woman looks, don't you think? How content, and yet how flammable." - Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography |
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Chosen of Bane
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 24 Dec 2005 : 13:15:22
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Originally posted by Beezy
Have you read Lord of Stormweather? Everytime he kills someone the blade gives me extra strength and such for two days. So it is similar to the life stealing dagger Artemis had.
I have read it but it has been a while....
I don't remember it being a lifestealing dagger, however, I've been wrong before (once ir twice). |
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Beezy
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 25 Dec 2005 : 03:22:05
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Originally posted by J D Dunsany
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Originally posted by Beezy
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Originally posted by Chosen of Bane
I don't see the dagger as being the same thing as Artemis's dagger. He doesn't seem to gain energy from the dagger like Artemis and Artemis doesn't seem to have ghosts following him around.
I don't know of any game mechanical description for Radu's dagger, I think it was just more of a story device for a novel, not something that's necessarily statted out.
Have you read Lord of Stormweather? Everytime he kills someone the blade gives me extra strength and such for two days. So it is similar to the life stealing dagger Artemis had.
Isn't it more of an addiction? He has to keep using it in order to live after the horrible injuries he's suffered at the end of 'Black Wolf'. He doesn't use the blade as a 'buff' but as a means of survival - it's that element of compulsion that makes it so horrible. (And effective as a piece of writing, Mr Gross!) Of course, Artemis Entreri might use the dagger in the same way. I don't know. I've only just started reading 'Streams of Silver'!
Yours,
JDD
Indeed, I just read the part where it speaks about how after the two days of being exceptionally strong he will keep getting weaker and more frail until he once again kills. Radu was not really opposed to killing before but he now has to kill in order to stay alive. |
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Question from Black Wolf *spoilers within*
