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the question of the Krill is an easy one, every hero needs a sword. king arthur had excalibur, zoro had his saber thingy... etc...

it only stands to reason that a lord would need a weapon, and as such loric fashioned the Krill to basically be a stylish short sword that he would weild in his wars against the viles... and as he was a lord you would expect that naturally he would have a sword with which he could harness earthlore...

and lo and behold, the Krill is explained in under *looks at his watch* 2 minutes :) :D

p.s oh yeah, hi again :P been away for a while... i'll b dropping back in every now and again... busy with college init :)
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I couldn't believe when I saw your name in the thread!!! Where the heck have you been!!!??? :D

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heh.... i've been hiding.... they're after me ya know 8O

nah... been away... trippin... at college... stuff to do people to see that kinda thing... (i'm also frequently known to take a break from the net...)

n ty for the sig :P lol i like that guns n lawyers thing... tis funny...
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For those who don't know, it's from the late, great Warren Zevon.
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sounds like a brand of ointment :s
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Can anyone tell me if krill is the name of weapon in the real world? Or did SRD make it up. The only reference I can find is to microshrimp-whale food.
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Well, there was a great/terrible low budget fantasy movie in the 8o's with Liam Neeson called Krull....but I never could figure out if Krull was the magic trans-dimensional moving castle or the magic singing boomerang/chinese throwing star weapon.... ;)
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There os such a thing as a 'Kris' I think.
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Indonesian knife, I think. The wave-bladed kind.
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Ha ha ha, I'm lorics Krill krills loric. Hahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!!! :D

Yummy yummy, hierachy food smell goooood.

Nooooo, the men are coming to get me, gotta hide; where can I hide?

Please help me!!!!!!!! I cant go back to that place!
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:? some1 help that man... :? could we perhaps induce the silence of the elohim? infelice??

heh...
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My thoughts after reading this thread, which is one of the best:

-There is wild magic in every atom of the Land. If Cov knew how, everything in the Land, including the materials used by Loric to create the Krill, could respond to the white gold wielder.

- Why would Kevin hinge the realization of the 7th, and possibly the 6th, Wards on his father's sword? I mean, was he really shallow enough to bet the future peoples of his Wards on the premise that the RoD would not destroy or bury it for all time?

- If it was the SoL that enabled the realization of the Krill at Revelstone, then maybe the SoL is actually the fourth Ward, and the Krill the fifth, and the knowledge to activate the Krill, the sixth. Nah. The Wards seem to be knowledge alone.

When did the Krill's Gem turn blue?
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jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:
When did the Krill's Gem turn blue?
IIRC only for a moment when Mhoram tried to remove it from the stone table (after Trell's desolation.)
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When he failed, or when he did it?
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OK wait, I'm wrong on this. It wasn't after Trell's desolation, it was after Covenant refused Mhoram's summons. When Covenant disappeared and Mhoram turned back toward the Council, he noticed the krill had been shining white, and when he tried to withdraw it, the gem turned blue for an instant.

Or I could still be wrong. Tell you what, I'll look it up tonight.
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Kewl...I think you're right though.
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dlbpharmd wrote:OK wait, I'm wrong on this. It wasn't after Trell's desolation, it was after Covenant refused Mhoram's summons. When Covenant disappeared and Mhoram turned back toward the Council, he noticed the krill had been shining white, and when he tried to withdraw it, the gem turned blue for an instant.

Or I could still be wrong. Tell you what, I'll look it up tonight.
I'm pretty sure your right...for some reason it's in my head that, at the time I thought the blue was the gem's recognition of Mhoram's power (didn't Mhoram's power express blue from his staff? I'm to bound up in the current chron's to remember/go back)
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dlbpharmd wrote:OK wait, I'm wrong on this. It wasn't after Trell's desolation, it was after Covenant refused Mhoram's summons. When Covenant disappeared and Mhoram turned back toward the Council, he noticed the krill had been shining white, and when he tried to withdraw it, the gem turned blue for an instant.

Or I could still be wrong. Tell you what, I'll look it up tonight.
You're mixing two separate incidents. After TC refused the summons Mhoram grabbed the krill's handle. The gem flickered blue for an instant, but he couldn't budge it from the table. After the desolation, he observed that the gem was shining white and removed it easily.

It is an obvious reference to the sword in the stone from the tales of king arthur. Glimmermere is a reference to the Lake from king arthur but without a Lady swimming around in it distributing swords.
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Jeff wrote:
dlbpharmd wrote:OK wait, I'm wrong on this. It wasn't after Trell's desolation, it was after Covenant refused Mhoram's summons. When Covenant disappeared and Mhoram turned back toward the Council, he noticed the krill had been shining white, and when he tried to withdraw it, the gem turned blue for an instant.

Or I could still be wrong. Tell you what, I'll look it up tonight.
I'm pretty sure your right...for some reason it's in my head that, at the time I thought the blue was the gem's recognition of Mhoram's power (didn't Mhoram's power express blue from his staff? I'm to bound up in the current chron's to remember/go back)
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