By Captain Oats (Jestergoblin) on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 11:05 pm:| By Captain Oats (Jestergoblin) on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 11:05 pm: |
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/arcana/1473
His chest says mighty in Thran. That's not Urza's symbol.
| By Squeeman (Squeeman) on Monday, December 03, 2007 - 04:11 am: |
Maybe Urza has an ego?
| By Homelands Bookie (Psycho) on Monday, December 03, 2007 - 05:50 am: |
Or MaRo has...
| By MORT (Ashtok) on Monday, December 03, 2007 - 11:40 am: |
Wasn't it Jhoira? She named Karn...
With the Thran word for "mighty" IIRC.
Maybe Urza adopted the symbol for himself (and he had to place it of Karn's chest too).
| By Squeeman (Squeeman) on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 08:01 am: |
It was a good book. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
Quote:Jhoira smiled sadly, wiping the last of the oil away. She gestured at the pendant. "You can keep it. They're supposed to be lucky. They're good to have with you on a
vision quest." She wiped her hands on another cloth and tossed both into the basket in the corner. "Anyway, I'm doing a treatise on you, and I have some questions-if you don't mind?"
The silver man said solemnly, "You are the first person to ask whether I minded anything."
Jhoira nodded distractedly. She drew a large folio of sketches from beneath her drafting table and selected a number of rattling sheets from it. She spread them out on the workspace.
"These are drawings of me," observed the golem.
"Yes. This is the final set of plans for you before the powerstone was implanted-front, back, left, right, top, and bottom views. There's a detail of your torso. You've got lots of room in there. And here's your head," she said as she pointed to each matrix of gray lines and gear-work.
"This legend names me only 'PROBE 1,' " the golem indicated.
"Yes," responded Jhoira. "Master Malzra is not very imaginative when it comes to names. Still, it's a better name than Arty Shovel-head."
One of the golem's massive fingers traced out a bracket that indicated the whole frame of the construct. Beside it was a call out that said simply, "KARN."
"I like this name better. What does it mean?"
Jhoira looked up from the sketch. Her eyes narrowed intently as she studied the golem's gleaming features.
"That's Old Thran. I don't know much of the language-even Master Malzra doesn't know much of it-but I know that word. It means 'mighty.'"
"Karn," the golem repeated thoughtfully.
Jhoira smiled again. "Yes. That's a good name. That's your name. Karn."
| By Captain Oats (Jestergoblin) on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 01:10 pm: |
Time Streams was my first magic novel... one of my favorites to this day.
And probably it should.