/// Absolutely beautiful text ! I love the way you mesh natural science with gloranthan mythology. The Dragonfly is first and foremost a dark waters monster, which flies out to try to... eat the sun or something.
> Dragonflies, at least, spend the vast majority of their lives as an "obvious"
> darkness/water creature... a ravenous crawling predator lurking in the murky
> depths of still water. Eventually, they transform themselves to conquor the
> air and sky. Sun worshippers might say they become "enlightened" and are
> given the gift of flight and keen eyesight by friendly sky powers to help
> "clear the air." Their definatley originate in the darkness though.
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> Most caterpillars also have a pretty comfortable darkness "look and feel",
> and the colorful cute and fuzzy ("sunny") ones mostly become moths, whose
> elemental confusion ties in nicely with their lunar association.
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> I can certainly imagine a myth explaining how Honey Bees are "actually" light
> creatures, who have selflessly taken on a darkness form, to fulfill the job
> of dredging the foul darkness for whatever shreds of goodness can be found
> there. They then gather and refine that goodness into pure golden honey, fit
> for the emperor himself.
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> There's clearly SOMETHING "wrong" with bees from a troll standpoint, or the
> Bee Tribe of Uz wouldn't be so darn wierd )
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