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- From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (D.K. Fellows)
- Subject: Re: Who can use the orb
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.172623.24014@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- References: <921917131951@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.161329.2315@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:26:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.161329.2315@maths.tcd.ie>, rjwalsh@maths.tcd.ie (Robert Walsh) writes:
- |> In <921917131951@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> STUCS205@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
- |>
- |> > On the subject of who can use the Orb, as many people are now pointing out it
- |> >is only those people who are pure Rivans but also it is only possible for the c
- |> >hild with the #birthmark# who is able to hold and use the orb. Also all the Go
- |> >ds are able to hold it as they were instrumental in it existing.
- |>
- |> I don't think so. Look what it did to Torak... Maybe the orb would think
- |> that another god would do as much damage as he did.
- |>
- |> > From stucs205@uk.ac.bham
- |>
- |> Later,
- |> Robert.
- |> --
- |> rjwalsh@maths.tcd.ie \ Drain you of your sanity
- |> Robert Walsh \ Face the thing that should not be
- |> Student Computer Research Group \
- |> Trinity College, Dublin. \ - Metallica
-
- But Eriond could touch the Orb once he was a god. I think that prior to Torak's
- theft of the Orb, anyone could touch it, even if they couldn't wield it. After
- the Cracking of the World, the Orb became more selective, and would only permit
- certain people to touch it (i.e. Good Gods, the Rivan Line, and possibly The
- Child of Light, as the last was not always synonymous with the Rivan Line,
- especially during Vo Mimbre, when Poledra was CoL).
-
- Always remember that the Orb is sentient, and can make it's own decisions.
-
- Donal.
-
- --
- "Everything that is not nailed down is mine.
- Everything that I can pry loose is not nailed down."
- - Collis P. Huntingdon
-