[Dragaera] (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons]

[Jon_Lincicum at stream.com]

>> 17 is not only the mystical number of Dragaerans, it's the mystical 
number 
>> of the cycle itself, which has (apparently) existed since long before 
the 
>> creation of Dragaera (the planet itself). 
>>
>> Saying that 17 means nothing to the Serioli, just because they're not 
>> "Dragaerans" is ludicrous. They're the only true natives on the planet. 
17 
>> means, if anything, MORE to them than to any of the "alien invaders" 
>> (Easterners, Dragaerans, Jenoine, etc) who have arrived over the years.
>> 
>That could be; the original Dragaeran tribes were 31, and the Easterners 
>do not seem to have any particular attachment to 17. I imagine that an 
>Empire built on top of a mystical, catastrophic event as harnessed by a 
>powerful artifact might take on the characteristics underlying it. So if 
>the Empire is built on the Greater Sea of Chaos, which is harnessed by 
>the Orb, which is a gift from the gods, who have hitched their train, so 
>to speak, to the Cycle, a speculation based on the common knowledge 
>among Dragaerans that the physical representation of the Cycle is that 
>wheel in the Halls of Judgment, which is where the gods hang out, well, 
>then you end up with a really long run-on sentence. But the main idea is 
>that all of that would pararectally put the Empiricals in sync with the 
>Cycle. I wonder when the number 17 really took hold in Dragaeran 
>society. I bet Sethra knows...

Oh yeah, the wiki has a good spec page on this topic (still 
Dzur-Spoiler-Free for now. (Though other parts of the wiki are not))

http://dragaera.wikia.com/wiki/Speculation:Great_Weapons

Majikjon