Mythical Creatures/Folk (Spoilers ALL Books, including Words Like Coins)

[Farseer]

Adding a little bling to our discussion here and elsewhere regarding the possibility of Sa having a dragon-ish link, here comes an observation that may mean something or may mean nothing...

Odava is said to not only be one of the facets of Sa but:

another facet of Sa's jewel face.

Sa's jewel face. A jewel face. Not sure about you but this places an Elderling at the forefront of my thinking! Scaling could be considered as appearing jewel-like?

I am particularly thinking of the woman who I spoke of as being featured in Homecoming (apologies for kind of cross-posting here but I needed to bring it over here to discuss the 'jewel' element!). Buried within the remains of Trehaug, the woman is carved in a reclining position in a basket that is held by a dragon (most likely a simulacra/memory stone carving that is similar to those which appear within the Stone Garden). It says of the woman:

And within the basket, reclining serenely, was a woman of preternatural authority. She was not beautiful; the power expressed in her made beauty irrelevant. Nor was she young and desirable....Jewels had been set above her brow lines and along the top of her cheeks to mimic the scaling of the dragon...

More to add on all of this but I will leave it there for the moment.

So, again, could the jewel face of Sa refer to scaling or does jewel here simply mean that Sa is made up of a variety of facets, like a jewel has facets, OR could it be a bit of both?