"I thought of the idea of trying, looked at the example dragon in front of me to see what sorts of things might happen if I got it wrong, and discovered that the mechanism of dragonhood has terrible disasters lying in wait for anybody who violates its standard assumptions. I could take years to get precise enough with rilte to be comfortable trying to copy that mechanism, and I wouldn't throw naharr at it for the yearly tax revenue of the Cetagandan Empire."