Others' Island (spoilers all books incl RWC)

['thul]

These beings will no doubt forget to comment on some part of your post...

The wizardwood charm loves Etta the way Kennit should have loved her. Possibly how he would have if he had been bingtown raised as well as bingtown born.

The transformation to Elderling requires close proximity to dragons. Liveships are of dragons, but they are not dragons, thus they cannot effect the transformation, though they have the knowledge on how it is done.

One thing these beings wonder about is what happened to the cocoons that were washed away in the flood. If they recall correctly, about 20 cocoons were washed away. Only one was shown to have been found. considering what percentage of the remaining that hatched and lived (about 15 out of 60), that should indicate that about 5 of those 19 missing cocoons were still viable. 'thul presume that those 19 were (eventually) washed out to sea. Since wizardwood is extremely dense, it is probable that they do not float naturally. The hollow within a log of it might be enough to prevent it from sinking completely, but not enough to allow floatation. Thus the 19 lost ones could easily have been moved far by the seas. Light filtered through the seas is probably insufficient to trigger hatching, thus the cocoons may yet become fully viable, perhaps even allowing the dragons within to age to the point where they come out fully formed, if with reduced memory.

Perhaps a cocoon or two will wash up on the treasure beach, covered in sufficient amount of seaweed to prevent hatching?