![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The Problem with Maw-Mouths
Jun. 29th, 2022 07:34 pmWhat's the deal with maw-mouths?
No, really. They're the dread of every enclave, the biggest monsters in the graduation hall of the Scholomance, the "greater evil" for which "if you've got a choice, take the something else". And yet —
Assuming we're taking El's exposition at its word here: why? Why, if there's a threat bigger than any other mal in the world, would no one have spent much time studying the reproduction of maw-mouths? It's not that maw-mouths aren't studied at all:
Something isn't adding up here.
( Read more )
No, really. They're the dread of every enclave, the biggest monsters in the graduation hall of the Scholomance, the "greater evil" for which "if you've got a choice, take the something else". And yet —
"The maw-mouth I’d killed had been a small one, maybe budded off one of the big ones or however they spawn—no one’s spent much time studying the reproduction of maw-mouths as far as I know." (TLG)
Assuming we're taking El's exposition at its word here: why? Why, if there's a threat bigger than any other mal in the world, would no one have spent much time studying the reproduction of maw-mouths? It's not that maw-mouths aren't studied at all:
"For further reading, see the seminal literature by Abernathy, Kordin, and Li in the Journal of Maleficaria Studies, who discovered that it was possible to direct a communications spell to even a long-digested maw-mouth victim and receive back a response, albeit nothing but incoherent screaming." (ADE)
Something isn't adding up here.
( Read more )
