McCaffrey Questions

[ghost8772]

that kinda points that blue riders can be hetero or bi- then doesn't it?

so here's an imponderable. if greens are rendered sterile by chewing firestone, how did the dragons ever get past the first generation?

reading dragonsdawn, ALL the riders tried giving their dragons firestone, but the golds couldn't produce flame. yet fire-lizards of all colors can chew firestone and produce flame, as well as both gold and green fire-lizards produce eggs. now its possible this is an inconsistency, or at the least an unwritten thing Anne put in when she made the dragons genetically engineered, that the greens were encoded to be sterile, and the golds could not fight in the traditional method, and somehow the dragonriders over the centuries made it into an adage, legend, what have you, that firestone is what sterilizes greens, and also why golds could NEVER chew it. for the propogation of the species. any thoughts opinions or otherwise?

[manephelien]

It's one point that's been argued by fans all over the net. My personal view is that Kitti Ping Yung tinkered with the greens so that they are rendered sterile by chewing firestone. The golds lack some enzyme that acts as a catalyst for the flame reaction, and the phosphine just makes them sick. Dragonlore through the ages has ensured that they just think the firestone does it, because they've forgotten that humans engineered the dragons in the first place.

[ghost8772]

well the easiest explanation would be that the engineering rendered the greens sterile, and golds unable to chew firestone at all. yeah I recall the accusation by the queen riders of Sean who knew most of the code... that they felt Kit Ping had decided the golds were to do a traditional role of staying at home with the eggs etc..... just doesn't add up that firestone sterilizes dragons when bronze and an occasional brown can fertilize a queen's eggs, but they chew firestone. I didn't put the blue in that statement because the blue dragons are never given the opportunity to mate with a queen...