Feb-03-2012, 06:59 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Feb-03-2012, 07:04 AM (UTC) by Farseer.)
Nothing to do with anything (I know, I am an expert in that field! 
) but I couldn't help but think of Girl-on-a-Dragon when I was also thinking of this cover art for BoD last night. Yes, I think about random RotE things at random times for no apparent reason at all!
Now, I doubt there is a connection in any way (though there might be!
) but I thought of it nonetheless...now that she is adorned with the Rooster Crown, Salt, or 'the girl' aspect of GoaD (now Realder's Dragon apparently 
), will look even more Elderling-like/similar to the crested BoD figure depicted on the back of the dragon in flight than she would have done previously.
You beings said that it unlikely that a dragon would allow a human to ride upon its back and I agree. Still, this comparison between GoaD (with or without the Rooster 'Crown' which does, admittedly, look nothing like a 'crest' except for its stick-out-from-your-head appearance
) and the Elderling on the cover of BoD makes me wonder if it were not more common than rare for an Elderling, at least, to fly in such a fashion. It's almost as if Salt were not only wanting to avoid being made part of the dragon that she and her coterie were carving but she also wished to achieve this goal by carving herself similarly to the form an Elderling astride a dragon would take. I doubt she'd had carved herself in such a fashion if Elderlings/Skilled Ones did not ever see a dragon as such a form of transportation or did not ever sit on one's back.
Further, this little thought makes the statue in Homecoming all the more interesting for me (if such a thing is possible...I love that thing!
), as though it confirms that the lady depicted within the basket seems to have possibly been exalted in a such a way that riding astride a dragon seems unfitting to her station...even though an Elderling did so. As I have mentioned elsewhere (the Homecoming thread - major spoilers within the link - and other places?), she is the Judge perhaps?
Anyway, the main point being, is that back in history, though Reyn was carried in Tintaglia's mouth, Elderlings did obviously ride on the back of a dragon....Salt's position confirms it, even as does the cover art for BoD.
EDIT: Sorry for the mass of edits if you subscribe to this thread!
) but I couldn't help but think of Girl-on-a-Dragon when I was also thinking of this cover art for BoD last night. Yes, I think about random RotE things at random times for no apparent reason at all! Now, I doubt there is a connection in any way (though there might be!
) but I thought of it nonetheless...now that she is adorned with the Rooster Crown, Salt, or 'the girl' aspect of GoaD (now Realder's Dragon apparently ), will look even more Elderling-like/similar to the crested BoD figure depicted on the back of the dragon in flight than she would have done previously.You beings said that it unlikely that a dragon would allow a human to ride upon its back and I agree. Still, this comparison between GoaD (with or without the Rooster 'Crown' which does, admittedly, look nothing like a 'crest' except for its stick-out-from-your-head appearance
) and the Elderling on the cover of BoD makes me wonder if it were not more common than rare for an Elderling, at least, to fly in such a fashion. It's almost as if Salt were not only wanting to avoid being made part of the dragon that she and her coterie were carving but she also wished to achieve this goal by carving herself similarly to the form an Elderling astride a dragon would take. I doubt she'd had carved herself in such a fashion if Elderlings/Skilled Ones did not ever see a dragon as such a form of transportation or did not ever sit on one's back. Further, this little thought makes the statue in Homecoming all the more interesting for me (if such a thing is possible...I love that thing!
), as though it confirms that the lady depicted within the basket seems to have possibly been exalted in a such a way that riding astride a dragon seems unfitting to her station...even though an Elderling did so. As I have mentioned elsewhere (the Homecoming thread - major spoilers within the link - and other places?), she is the Judge perhaps? Anyway, the main point being, is that back in history, though Reyn was carried in Tintaglia's mouth, Elderlings did obviously ride on the back of a dragon....Salt's position confirms it, even as does the cover art for BoD.
EDIT: Sorry for the mass of edits if you subscribe to this thread!
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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