#because they decided katolis being the backbone of both food production and military might for all of humanity wasn't sustainable long-term

[kradogsrats]

In your new chapter of On the Shoulders of Titans you encouraged readers in the notes to ask you about the dragon hint that's been cut. Please tell me all you want to share about it 😍

Ha ha so... basically the whole "Del Bar's first king defeated a dragon living in Hinterpeak and the impact from its body formed the Serpenttongue valley" story is actually a canon in-setting legend, though I made up the other ones.

When discussing how the magma titan heart couldn't possibly have produced enough magic for the original spell, Kpp'Ar was going to suggest that it could maybe have been done with key reagents from "one of the higher orders of Earth dragon," with the implication being that the Del Barian legend was on some level true... except it was Duren that was figuratively impacted by the fallen dragon's body.

Ultimately, it was a little too convoluted to convey and also I didn't actually want to give Lissa an out on the whole "yeah this probably involved some kind of terrible human sacrifice blood price initially" thing.