Others' Island (spoilers all books incl RWC)

[maulkin]

maybe one serpent, after hatching and having got its memories from the previous SWR is actually *supposed* to stay put at Others Island rather than roaming the seas and going to form a cocoon (or maybe they go form the coccoon after passing on memories to a serpent successor).

Yes, that would make a lot of sense!

I also wonder whether perhaps the Others had some role to play in protecting dragon eggs, in the same way that elderlings played a role in protecting dragon cocoons. The Others still guard the beach, but in a rather pathetic and pointless way. Perhaps their original role was to guard the dragon eggs from thieving animals or humans. In that case, the niches in the rock were presumably once filled with dragon eggs rather than junk from the beach.