Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
That's the fallacy of the excluded middle. You're acting like Rich just has to have decided whether the sword was magic or not before he wrote that scene, making the only two options for his answer "Shatter worked because the sword wasn't magic" or "[something with more words that you don't have to actually read because it has to mean the sword was magic]". But no...what he said was that he didn't really think about magic interactions either way when he wrote that scene; he wanted Xykon to have a spell that could break the sword, it was appropriate to Xykon's power level, so he did. That works whether the sword was magic and the spell was Greater Shatter, or the sword was not magic.
But he is saying that he just didn't care about the rules for the spell, but he isn't saying anything about the weapon. I mean, he is basically saying the reader has 2 options:
1- Shatter in Oots world can break magic weapons, at least if the caster is powerfull enough.
2- That is an improved shatter spell that can break magic weapons.