Canticle is a dragon or other powerful being's egg. The entire planet is an evenly rotating massive investiture sink. I can easily seeing that being a major part of the development of a dragon, both heating and sustaining the embryo. The hostility of the planet is also likely in part a defense mechanism.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

My line of thought was: it was mentioned that the mountains were formed relatively recently. So it's unlikely it's because of the shape of the egg. And even if it was egg-shaped, it wouldn't make sense for the point to not be at the poles, so that its axis of rotation is the same as its axis of symmetry

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yeah, I think I was having a hard time understanding where exactly the mountain was. It sounded like Nomad thought it was at a pole but I probably misheard because that doesn't really fit with it being in the way of people going laterally around the planet.

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