Am I right in thinking that 'naka-duskael' (the word for bipeds) literally means 'without scales', the scaleless ones?
In which case, are we to assume that the Sslik (clearly scaled) got bundled under the same sweeping umbrella as all the other bipeds, with that slight cultural arrogance of the early Age of Dragons? Or is it Scaleless in the sense of not having Scales like dragons have Scales, merely scales. If that makes sense!
Also, how does the phrase split up? Is 'duskael' the word for scales, because it seems to be missing from my dictionary. (I was distracted by 'meranne' for a moment, but that's scale as in 'to ascend'.) Similarly, does 'naka' mean 'without'?
And just quickly, on pronounciation - I seem to remember the 'ae' sounds like a hard 'a', making it "dusk-AL" rather than "duskALE", is that correct?
I know it's all mostly theory rather than hard fact anyway, but I like to hear thoughts.