> >>Speaking of mostly-unrelated tangents, can dragons fly in Dragaera? > > >Well, "the Dragon" in Issola certainly flew. Of course that "Dragon" > >was more God than Dragaeran fauna. > > > > I believe you are mistaken. I recall no reference to "flying" (in the > sense of flapping wings). *** ISSOLA SPOILERS *** ISSOLA SPOILERS *** ABORT, ABORT *** ISSOLA SPOILERS BELOW *** So, I dug out every reference to the dragon at the end of Issola, and I agree, there is no evidence of wings or flying. Actually, it appears landbound the entire battle. (all references to the hardcover Issola) 226-227 - there was even a dragon which, from across a long distance, seemed almost to catch my eye for an instant, as if it knew me. I stared back. Could it be that one from the Paths of the Dead? No, for some reason, it didn't seem like that dragon. Eventually it looked away, leaving me wondering. 230 - We all stopped and looked, and discovered that we were, in fact, not the only ones moving directly at the Jenoine: the dragon was, too. 234 - one of the Jenoine was down indeed, and wouldn't be getting up again, and there was no mystery about what had taken it out: the dragon was holding it down with two paws and tearing chunks out of the thing with its teeth, and scattering it in all directions, as if to tell us that good, old-fashioned gore did, indeed, belong in a battle of gods, demigods, and wizardry ... another continued to be dismembered and gutted by the dragon, who wanted to make a thorough job of it 235 - the dragon, which had finished its meal and was now trying to get at the Jenoine who was holding off the Lords of Judgement, turned toward us, then, its mouth open, showing teeth the size of Blackwand, and began to move in our direction ... the dragon, for no reason that I could see, stopped as if it had struck a wall, rolled over--something that big does a lot of rolling over when it rolls--and then came to its feet once more, and shook its head in a very human gesture. 236 - then aliera went flying backward, tumbling backward liek a seed bag without the seed, landing next to the dragon. I thought she was dead, or at least injured, but she put her hand on the dragon's head, and, using it like a handhold, rose to her feet at once, shook her head in a gesture terribly reminiscent of the dragon's, then turned back toward the battle. It was terrifying to think that one of those things was entertaining the Demon Goddes, Sethra Lavode, teh Necromancer, a dragon, and Aliera e'Kieron. 237-238 - of all the sorceries and Great Weapons and gods and dragons and necromancies, it was that attack with that weapon that got through. 247 - they were gone, leaving only half the gods in the world, one very large dragon, and our little group standing on the spot of Adron's Disaster. 248 - the gods and even the dragon were gone as well. Bryan Newell I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you... - William Munny, Unforgiven (1992)