what was obvious but that i didn’t quite understand until i replayed minrathous vs treviso, because i’m stupid, is that the reason the city rook goes to is the one that gets saved is not because video game logic says rook is somehow already that powerful and can change the game all by themselves despite splitting their companions evenly between the two cities. it’s because the dragons were not acting like normal dragons, but operating on the gods’ intelligence to fly overhead completely out of reach, and it’s only when the gods sight the “dread wolf’s pawn” carrying the lyrium dagger that they are willing to send either dragon down where it can be fought









