The Gift of Speech

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Boroughobbit ;)

In the real Real World swords don't talk.

No, but cars do.

What is it that let's a Thing talk?

But we must first establish the nature of the Thing. Does it have sentience or is it a mere automaton programmed to respond in a certain way in specified circumstance (like a computer)?

I would regard Aghan's Faithful Stone (and William Huggins' purse for that matter) as falling in the latter category. But Gurthang appears to display a sentience that is independent of the one who made it.

The again, perhaps Eol had developed the craft of creating Artificial Intelligence.