So do you think jades not being able to pail when they’re adults is a constant on alternia, not just in the Hiveswap timeline?? Because that’d make sense as to why there are very few jades. Also why do you think they aren’t allowed to pail as adults, and how are jades still hatched if adults are supposed to abstain.?

I didn’t think about it in terms of it controlling the Jade population- Mostly because I always thought with how volatile Trolls are regarding mutations, and how the ‘slurry’ is mixed, there’s not much of a way to predict how many of one caste spawn. It also makes me wonder, if it’s to control the population, how there were Lime Grubs in the caverns. Quite a bunch of interesting questions!

It seems to be world building we didn’t know about though, yeah! Not all Jades though- Specifically Cloistered Jades, which seem to be a specific, chosen subset of them. They’re sent to live monastic lives, either in fear of something relating to their reproduction, or fear of them specifically, either Rainbowdrinkerism, or the fact Condy doesn’t want a Dolorosa 2.0 happening. They’re basically nuns, though, so just like Purples with the Clown Cult, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some religious connotations to them not being allowed to pail.