[boesjwoelie]

At the end of GOTM, Paran picks up Lorn's otataral blade. Did I miss the part where he loses it again or something?
Since otataral seems to be quitte rare, I thought is was a little strange the blade is not mentioned at all in MoI. especially at the end, killing those condors would have been a piece of cake if he still had it. Instead, he had to use his pigsticker

[Illuyankas]

Spoilers for later books:

Spoiler

SE actually forgot it while writing MOI, but you see it again in The Bonehunters.

[boesjwoelie]

thanks!

[Abyss]

Considering how in MoI Paran had to work with mages and ascendents, and generally in the (admittedly outlawed contingent of) the Malazan army, walking around with a mage killing magic nullifying sword that used to belong to the Empress' Adjunct might not be the bestest idea.

I agree with you tho', there might have been a few points where he was just kicking himself over that.

- Abyss, ...has days like that with a spork...

[Sitruk]

boesjwoelie, on 23 November 2009 - 05:11 PM, said:

At the end of GOTM, Paran picks up Lorn's otataral blade. Did I miss the part where he loses it again or something?
Since otataral seems to be quitte rare, I thought is was a little strange the blade is not mentioned at all in MoI. especially at the end, killing those condors would have been a piece of cake if he still had it. Instead, he had to use his pigsticker

Paran does imply he lost his sword on the hill outside of Coral, when Quick Ben pulls them into the warren of Ruse to excape magic being sent at them by a Seerdomin. hope this is useful

This post has been edited by Sitruk: 09 January 2010 - 09:05 AM

[Harvester]

The sword would not have been all that useful anyway. Think of Tay or QB or all the other mages.

This post has been edited by Harvester: 09 January 2010 - 11:56 AM

[D'rek]

Sitruk, on 09 January 2010 - 09:05 AM, said:

boesjwoelie, on 23 November 2009 - 05:11 PM, said:

At the end of GOTM, Paran picks up Lorn's otataral blade. Did I miss the part where he loses it again or something?
Since otataral seems to be quitte rare, I thought is was a little strange the blade is not mentioned at all in MoI. especially at the end, killing those condors would have been a piece of cake if he still had it. Instead, he had to use his pigsticker

Paran does imply he lost his sword on the hill outside of Coral, when Quick Ben pulls them into the warren of Ruse to excape magic being sent at them by a Seerdomin. hope this is useful

That's not necessarily his otataral sword, though, could've been just any sword issued from the army.


Bonehunters spoiler:

Spoiler

It's not his otataral sword

[Kireler]

You know ... I never even thought of that.

But now I'm wondering why isn't there more Otataral weapons. If there's a mine there has to be enough ore. Maybe it'll be discussed more in later books =)

[Harvester]

Kireler, on 18 January 2010 - 03:22 PM, said:

You know ... I never even thought of that.

But now I'm wondering why isn't there more Otataral weapons. If there's a mine there has to be enough ore. Maybe it'll be discussed more in later books =)

I guess that too many would maim your own army.

[Wampyry]

Abyss & Harvester explained it, too many Otataral swords would eliminate the magic of the Mages - including healing

This post has been edited by Wampyry: 18 January 2010 - 11:07 PM

[Cobbles]

Sitruk, on 09 January 2010 - 09:05 AM, said:

boesjwoelie, on 23 November 2009 - 05:11 PM, said:

At the end of GOTM, Paran picks up Lorn's otataral blade. Did I miss the part where he loses it again or something?
Since otataral seems to be quitte rare, I thought is was a little strange the blade is not mentioned at all in MoI. especially at the end, killing those condors would have been a piece of cake if he still had it. Instead, he had to use his pigsticker

Paran does imply he lost his sword on the hill outside of Coral, when Quick Ben pulls them into the warren of Ruse to excape magic being sent at them by a Seerdomin. hope this is useful

Yes he lost it underwater. So if that's the Otataral blade, it shouldn't come back. I guess it was a standard sword, otherwise he'd make more of a fuss about it.

[Red King]

I would agree with Abyss and Harvester, Even having only one Otataral weapon has shown to have a rather large radius of magic deadening properties. Outfitting an entire army would be beneficial if you were an army completely beret of mages and needed a proper defense. But since mages are so intricately tied into the Malazan Army, to the point where mages are assigned to almost every squad, sometimes even multiple mages to a squad. And with that many Otataral weapons being wielded, you would effectively create the same barrier that Tool created in GotM. Wouldn't be pretty, but interesting it would be.

- Ultor