Staves and snakes
The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Jul 1998
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/484
This is Sean Whalen (prion).
When I looked back over the archives, I found some comparisons of Silk to Moses, but I don't think the similarity of Silk fighting Blood to Moses and the magician was mentioned. Silk has a staff that is also a sword, and Blood uses an Azoth. Silk wins and kills Blood. This was at the end of Calde of the Long Sun.
As the staff is also a sword, so was the stick also a snake.
prion
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