Exactly. Someone over in another forum was arguing that Ruth was a sport because he was broken out of his egg, and he was the only one broken out of his egg. BULLSHIT. Anne's books have clear examples of dragons simply not hatching, and while some are deformed, others are entirely perfectly formed. Others lack the strength to break shell - and with help, a perfectly healthy BRONZE was hatched in "Ever the Twain." Ruth is a bullshit answer to a bullshit cause of trying to get the all perfect Jaxom to be both a rider and a holder - and a RUATHAN TOO. He is thus the most powerful individual on Pern. His dragon times perfectly, doesn't respond to mating flights, doesn't impeed Jaxom's own sexual drive, doesn't really criticize Jax, probably knits for fun, and can carry four full grown adults no problem.Shard wrote:Heh then there's the whole "in 2500 years and who knows how many actual clutches, only ONE mutant survived".
Yah. Right. After you GENETICALLY ENGINEERED them to be mutants in size and emotive states... uhuh.
And he's Ruathan. I'm sorry, but that whole Ruathans being specialer than most other people? I don't like XD