[Dragaera] The Enclouding

[Scott Schultz]

> Of a certainty. Smog build-up that requires days and days to accumulate 
> can be blown out to sea by one strong gust of wind. This is why this 
> paragraph of my post was presented as my personal opinion, rather than 
> confirmed fact.
>
> Majikjon

This is why the meterological analogy breaks down if you use it as more than 
just a model for the look of the Enclouding and the mechanism of its 
creation. To the best of our knowledge, the Enclouding is constant. Maybe 
Dragaera just never gets windstorms, but that's a bit difficult to believe. 
Given that no amount of meterological activity seems to affect it, there's 
no reason to believe that it must act like air pollution simply because it 
resembles air pollution.

Given that it's not only constant but has even spread to cover most or all 
of the continent west of the Eastern Mountains (I don't believe that Vlad 
has commented on the brightness of the sky during his jungle adventures or 
his trip out West in _Dragon_) it's not unreasonable to speculate that the 
"smog" NEVER dissipates.

It's not a particle floating around in the air, IMO. It's some sort of 
metaphysical manifestation that happens to take the form of a cloud when 
viewed with the naked eye.

As someone mentioned previously, the one reference we have about its source 
is not what you'd call definitive. There's plenty of wiggle room for Steve 
to make it be whatever he wants, particularly given the whole "fallible 
narrator" trope that the series likes to engage in.