Does it occur to anyone else that, somewhere, there must be an archmage with a side business of plating dragon scales in adra,...or transmogrifying them into adra, … or something like that?

 

Because the Adra Dragon is, as near as we can tell, ABSOLUTELY unique.  And NOBODY (til now), except some xaurips, ever come back from Seyfra's lair.

 

So, without an alternate suppoly of adra dragon scales, where did all the accumulated Superb gear of Eora come from?

 

 

Of course, I suppose the xuarip High Priests of the EPON may have been running a little smuggling gig for a few ... centuries.

 

 

Is there an actual in canon explanation for this?

Hey!?

 

How do you enchant Superb armor and shields in PoE II: DF?

 

I haven't gotten there yet.

Differently. The ingredients are more common.

I actually think that "xaurip black market smuggling" idea might work, as a personal RP excuse.

 

Of course, there is (has been) a major deterrent to limit such smuggling … as in, one screwup, one shed scale reserve stock accounting mistake, and Sefyra eats you, and your entire bloodline.

Since there is, as far as we can tell, only one adra dragon in the world, it seems unlikely that all Superb armors require one...more likely, there's alternatives (parts of other dragons, maybe?  The brain of a vithrak elder?  Blood of a powerful ogre mage?).  I also always figured that the thing with the adra dragon scale or sky dragon eye or whatever was a "quick way" to enchant things.  Perhaps there's a longer, more drawn-out system of rituals with lots of apprentices and equipment and 7 days of chanting that can do the job using 10,000 xaurip tongues instead.