The Duke of Chalced's Throne Room *Spoilers all books incl CoD*

[Luckheart]

As a whole, that would seem to fit in quite well with what we know of Chalced - especially considering that in BoD it was discovered, or rather, pointed out that there were multiple factions of Elderlings/Dragons. This would lead one to believe that some factions are more cruel/harsh in their policies - and this could also relate back to silver as a resource; to me Spit seemed a lot less aggressive when he had a small amount of silver (not to mention having a bigger vocabulary) in BoD, so perhaps not only does silver fuel the *magic* of the dragons/elderlings but also humanizes them to a point ? I use humanize as a loose term.

To continue that theory, perhaps Chalced was a main aggressor to Kelsingra for silver resources, and due to the lack of silver were a harsher government ?