Talk:Dragon Quest/@comment-58.173.130.161-20120318050214/@comment-76.10.135.54-20120318150342

It *is* a myth that birds will abandon young because of their smell after being touched by outsiders. But we're not talking about smell here; the phoenix nest was completely destroyed. There wasn't any place to return the egg *to*. The phoenix parents probably would not come back to the old nest after a predator attack like that.