Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-39332473-20190725140205

DukeLeto7 wrote: I'll pile a fifth one on top for you: Xerces' odd description of Ulrissa:

"She has chosen to walk a path of mortality and withdrawn, however, so she is not a concern."

That implies that if she had chosen differently, she wouldn't now be mortal.

That leaves my objection that non-fossilized animal skeletons should not be lying around in the open air in a desert environment for a couple of centuries. Caves are one thing, as are tombs, but the first dragon skeleton I remember us meeting is out in the open air in the Aram desert.

At that point, you have to step back and say to yourself: "OK, I know that. Does the writer?" Used to really annoy the hell out of my DM before I learned that trick. "A path of mortality" is also surprisingly unhelpful. Whaddya mean 'a' path? Is she gonna die of old age, or is she powerless like a mortal, or both? Neither? Thanks for nothing Xerxes.

In regards to the skeleton, I think the meta answer is that it was a map made years ago and SL probably had no intention of making that a dragon skeleton. Sticking to the in-universe justifications though, perhaps dragon bones are just SUPER RUGGED and capable of staying atop shifting dunes of sand via SPOOKY PARASAILING or somesuch.

( I met a traveller from way the hell off who said: two gigantic, fucked-up rock legs be out there in the middle of goddamn nowhere right next to them covered in shit some kinda big face looked pretty pissed & upset & whatnot all damn covered in words “yo ozymandias here, this my shit” “better than your shit, get fucked buddy” not much else tho, just sand shitloads of sand all over the place

From the internet, with apologies to P.B.S.)