May-18-2010, 10:23 AM (UTC)
Very good point, Farseer. I don't remember if there was a specific quarry there, I'll have to look it up. Ways my theory could still be plausible:
1. It's possible that the Pale Woman craved her dragons out of cannibalized stones from Elderling dwellings, which they imported.
2. Or, if there is a significant deposit of memory stone bedrock, perhaps it isn't being actively eroded by a river, and thus there is no Memory Sand?
3. Or, perhaps there is a significant amount of Memory Stone that is forming into Memory Sand, but Aslevjal is so far north that the conditions are not conducive to Serpents spinning their cocoons. Perhaps there isn't enough sunlight (short winter days at high latitudes) or perhaps the Serpents can't abide cold water to swim up there, or for that matter perhaps the very cold winter would itself be enough to kill a hibernating Serpent? They are a little fragile, after all, and Dragons certainly don't like the cold.
1. It's possible that the Pale Woman craved her dragons out of cannibalized stones from Elderling dwellings, which they imported.
2. Or, if there is a significant deposit of memory stone bedrock, perhaps it isn't being actively eroded by a river, and thus there is no Memory Sand?
3. Or, perhaps there is a significant amount of Memory Stone that is forming into Memory Sand, but Aslevjal is so far north that the conditions are not conducive to Serpents spinning their cocoons. Perhaps there isn't enough sunlight (short winter days at high latitudes) or perhaps the Serpents can't abide cold water to swim up there, or for that matter perhaps the very cold winter would itself be enough to kill a hibernating Serpent? They are a little fragile, after all, and Dragons certainly don't like the cold.
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