awwwwwesome! ♥

>Skeleton of a dragon impaled on a sharp mountain as the townpeople harvested it’s crystal heart  
Boy, thats METAL

@Wyvrex21  
I still have a funny feeling Spike’s diet of grasses and such is cause for his stunted growth. He’s shown he can eat anything without any adverse side effects, but when Ember came by, she didn’t touch any of the food on the table and instead devoured all the crystal objects (bowls and such) before even expanding out to the walls; a feast that didn’t put a proverbial pound on her, and Spike never gets to gorge himself on gems like that. The only time he did was in Owls well that ends well and that was only one meal.

Man, it’s cool to think Kludgetown started off as a magical version of Knowhere from GotG. I suppose given how much gemstones are a part of dragons’ diets, it’d make sense that at least part of their internal anatomy would be crystalline (or maybe it’s BECAUSE their internal anatomy is magical crystal that dragons need to eat gemstones).
 
@Daneasaur  
I propose the name “Ettin-Gnoll” as her species/description.

@Ardashir  
She’s a “Gnoll” or something similar, but yes she has two heads and I recall a much clearer image being here…

@Daneasaur  
That’s a hyena? I thought she was a wolf.
 
But if there is a better pic of her, I’d like to see it.

Wasn’t there another version of this that actually let us see the two headed hyeena lady properly?

@Background Pony #E207  
Actually, it sounds more like lore that that fits into “post dragon” timelines in fantasy. Many of these mention how the dragons had magical gemstones for hearts or otherwise had some organ of great value and were hunted to extinction for it. A situation where the dragon race is rather currently flourishing makes this exceedingly grim as it implies, not that a dragon died here long ago, but that a dragon was impaled on this very spire and this town rose up by people carving away at it.

A town made out of a dragon’s skeleton that mines its crystal heart… sounds like something out of an adult fantasy novel.

@Background Pony #A901  
Actually, most oil is from algae back in the cambrian era.

Dinosaurs turned into oil in Earth, meanwhile ancient Dragons turned into gems in Equestria (?)

@Itsthinking  
I imagine this is closer to show canon than my theory. But still, the idea of the show just dropping that idea of mine into a story without thinking of the complications amuses me. A little.

@Ardashir  
There would have to be a ton of dead dragons for how many gemstones are in Equestria, though. I think it’s more that they have crystal hearts and that is a special gemstone they are hunted by ponies for.

@Ardashir  
Or maybe the old adage “you are what you eat” is true.

@Ardashir  
Actually, the mythos of a dead dragon’s heart being a gemstone of incredibly potent power has been used many times in the past and is one reason said dragons were hunted.
 
I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true in MLP.
 
You’re now aware that Spike gave Rarity an actual Dragon Heart as his symbol of love to her.

@BleckerChecker  
Yeah. Imagine if they’d gone with that, how Spike would react when he learned what he’s been eating for years.

@PonyPon  
More like canniballs.

@Ardashir  
I guess it makes them predators all along.
 
Or at least scavengers.

Hmm, so going by the description, we almost ended up with the canon idea that dead dragons become gemstones?
 
If that WAS true, think back on all the times we saw Spike and other dragons eating gems and sleeping on them. Those scenes feel a little different now, don’t they?

@MuttonBash  
If you go on the official movie site, go to “story” and scroll down, it draws the path as you read the plot summary.

@dynamicv  
It seems the version of the map with the path wasnt posted on derpibooru. I swear i saw it here… but i cant find it.

@dynamicv  
Yeah. Honestly, I’m going with the original idea for what the dragon skeleton was intended to be, just sort of lampshaded as I said.

The movie website shows the path the mane 6 take through the desert. It passes over that skull instead of going straight to Klugetown.
 
I’m thinking they are going to have the dragon skeleton be part of some epic establishing shot of Klugetown as they go over the dune.

Cool