A megatherium speaks (I believe that is what Mr. Borski invoked, though he spelled it wrong):
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Anybody have any notions how Terminus Est came into the possession of Palaemon? The sword, after all, is no mere carnificial sword, but a valuable weapon, owing to its smithing by Jovinian (Agilus claims it's worth a villa). But Palaemon is a mere torturer and the guild itself appears to be in rather dire finances;
Thoughts, opinions, conjectures? (I'll spare you mine, not wanting to incur the ire of this list's megatherians.)
I have always taken Palaemon's slip in Shadow XIII--asked where Thrax is, he says "Down Gyoll. Near the sea," when in fact it is in the opposite direction--to mean that he has something of a past, that he may have been exiled from the guild to that place for something similar in his youth, and that he made it up with the help of a senior advocate, as he hopes Sev will. If that is so, perhaps he acquired the sword, which is certainly suitable for a journeyman torturer, in somewhat the same way. I'd like to think so, anyway.
-alga