welcome to mef is bored and his brain does too much thinking again, although this thought in particular has been lingering in my head for a while and I’m just deciding to share it now

Everything wrong with Wings of Fire

This is NOT a post critiquing the series but more just gaps in the world/lore that have always bugged me, also SPOILER WARNING I have literally read every book so this will be covering anything in the series

Anyways,

Technology

In many points in the story, it’s shown that they possess many technologies such as written language/a form of paper, metalworking, advanced culinary techniques, chemistry, but most confusingly, microbiology??? In book four starflight (of course it’s the nerd) mentions ANTIBODIES. HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW ABOUT ANTIBODIES??? And the worse part is, they know all this, AND YET THEY STILL DONT HAVE AGRICULTURE?? THAT IS LITERALLY THE FIRST TECHNOLOGY HUMANS MADE, HOW DO THEY HAVE MICROBIOLOGY YET THEY ARE STILL HUNTER-GATHERERS?? If anything, after the thousands of years they’ve been a common species, that many huge apex predators would have realistically decimated the ecosystem and their numbers would be much more limited due to food.

Communicating with humans

In book 15 (and the side book Dragonslayer) it is shown that dragons can learn to speak like humans. This however, makes no sense if you consider how different the mouth and other parts of the body are used for would be in a dragon vs a human, due to not having lips and an extremely different head structure, they would simply not be able to produce those sorts of sounds.

And best for last

Animus magic

If you think that that magic system is balanced in ANY WAY whatsoever you’re wrong. Literally the only restriction is that you can’t bring back the dead. At least from what I can tell, using the magic does not drain any sort of physical or mental energy. The consequences of using the magic are literally just that you might go mad with power, and it’s even proved in book 9 or 10 (I forget which one) that similar affects can affect dragons without magic. So it would be entirely possible for someone with animus magic to just say “I enchant myself to be a literal god and also the entire planet explodes lmao” and it would work. You don’t even have to use any sort of cryptic magic language or anything it’s basically just admin commands irl.

Anyway that’s it for the rant. No hate towards the series, that stuff was pretty much half my childhood and aside from these things it was a pretty good series which I heavily enjoyed.