Hyggyldy

Canticle is a dragon or other powerful being's egg. The entire planet is an evenly rotating massive investiture sink. I can easily seeing that being a major part of the development of a dragon, both heating and sustaining the embryo. The hostility of the planet is also likely in part a defense mechanism.

They're all so varied it's easy to fall in love with at least one. I personally love Nightmare Painter's and Silence's. The dark world with cyan and magenta highlights of Painter's world does something special in my brain and I dig the hell out of it. If I were to make an animation out of the book all of his parts would be in B/W with the hione lines being their colors and possible casting a colored glow on and otherwise B/W world. The creepy horror feel of Silence's is a fun, very tense divergence from the usual.

If you don't go to other instances and search for ![community]@sffa.community those instances will probably never see your posts. I've been going around and trying to federate communities from here to other instances to try and help.