Okay, I'm spelling out my theory on how things will pan out for Fawn and Dag in the second volume of "The Sharing Knife" (Legacy) before I actually read it.

Here are the facts established so far:

1. Sharing knives can (supposedly) only be primed by
Lakewalkers' deaths, not farmers'.
2. The first knife was used by Kauneo to "share", and
we know that Dag wasn't there when it happened.
3. The second knife was bonded to Dag, meaning it
should have only been primed by *his* mortality. Also,
it was made from Kauneo's bone.
4. Dag has been carrying both of these knives around
for twenty years.
5. Mari sensed that the knife felt "oddly pure".

You sure you want to read this? :) Here it comes...


My theory is that the second knife was primed with the
mortality of a baby, but not Fawn's. The first knife
was carrying *two* mortalities in it for twenty years.
I bet Dag never knew (perhaps too early to sense it
yet?) I also bet there are people at the camp who were
there when Kauneo died and do know, but have kept it
secret from Dag because he wouldn't have taken it
well. (To put it lightly.)

When Fawn accidentally stabbed the malice with the two
knives in succession, Kauneo's mortality killed the
malice, and the baby's went into the second knife --
since it was made from *her* bone and bonded to *him*,
perhaps it sorta recognised the baby that would have
had features of both of them.

Hence, the double meanings in the book titles:
- "Sharing knife" being one knife sharing two
mortalities,
- "Beguilement" being LMB fooling us, and,
- "Legacy" being literally Dag and Kauneo's legacy,
which is in the knife.

Again, this is pure speculation on my part. :) I may
be completely off base, but it makes sense to me.