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- From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
- Subject: Re: Elenium--Bhelliom
- Message-ID: <damiene.728108039@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:13:59 GMT
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- Erik Schwiebert <evs1@cornell.edu> writes:
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- >also, in _The Sapphire Rose_, when Aphrael took Sparhawk et al to her
- >"temple" in the "dream," she kept trying to explain concepts of iron,
- >elements, etc to the chars. somewhere in that section, she explains WHY
- >the rings are red, and why that gives Sparhawk his power over Bhelliom.
- >as far as i can remember, both Zen and Donal are right, in that blood
- >from sparhawk's ancestors stained the stone (* i've always wondered how
- >blood could stain a stone as hard as a sapphire?? :) *) and it is this
- >ancestral link that gives Sparhawk control....
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- Sapphire is a _big_ matrix. Possible that the 'iron' compound could have
- slipped between the molecule.s
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- Otherwise, its _maaaagic_
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- :)
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- Eccles
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