Mar-15-2010, 01:29 PM (UTC)
I edited the title of this thread a bit to warn about possible Dragon Haven spoilers.
The way I understand it, the Abominations aka the Others are the dragon equivalent of those Rain Wilders who were "touched" too heavily by the Rain Wilds (that is, the Elderling stuff/wizardwood). Sometimes dragons were in contact with the humans too much, and when their eggs hatched, out didn't come serpents but something else. What I find truly fascinating is that the Others are first mentioned all the way back in Assassin's Apprentice! I'm curious to know how much Robin had thought about them when they first appeared in the manuscript...
To think that the terrible, scary, repulsive creatures we met at the Other's island are basically subject to the same shunning as Thymara and her like makes you question whether they ARE that evil really, or just misunderstood and mistreated?
The way I understand it, the Abominations aka the Others are the dragon equivalent of those Rain Wilders who were "touched" too heavily by the Rain Wilds (that is, the Elderling stuff/wizardwood). Sometimes dragons were in contact with the humans too much, and when their eggs hatched, out didn't come serpents but something else. What I find truly fascinating is that the Others are first mentioned all the way back in Assassin's Apprentice! I'm curious to know how much Robin had thought about them when they first appeared in the manuscript...
To think that the terrible, scary, repulsive creatures we met at the Other's island are basically subject to the same shunning as Thymara and her like makes you question whether they ARE that evil really, or just misunderstood and mistreated?
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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