forever darkness wrote:
> a dead green dragon at the bottom isn't a constant source?
In a word: no.
First of all, as big as Beryl is, she's very much dwarfed by the sheer
size and volume of water that makes up the lake. The amount of
chlorine required on an on-going basis to keep even a swimming pool
chlorinated adds up over time, and we're talking about a really large
swimming pool (Qualinost was not a huge city, but it was a city).
Second, even if one assumes a pseudo-biological source inherent to the
dragon for the chlorine that a green dragon produces, one can easily
also assume that source has gone by the wayside now that the dragon
has. There's no evidence I've read to suggest that dead green, black
or copper dragons (the dragons most likely to have some toxicity
associated with them) cause any sort of long-term ecological damage
around their bodies. This follows the same essential arguements that
show that dead white dragons apparently don't freeze everything around
them, dead blue dragons apparently don't cause perpetual static
discharges in their vicinity, and dead red dragons apparently don't
eventually create a volcano on the spot where they die. If any of
those arguements are false, I've yet to read anything to show that (in
fact, that would make the Dragon Graveyard a bit....environmentally
chaotic, were it true).
Frank the Wanderer
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