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@Elvende @ParasiticHeart

"The dragon leather it's held together with is molding and smells awful."
As far as I understand the sentence the main sentence is:
"The dragon leather is molding and smells awful."
and the
"it's held together with"
is just a poorly inserted descriptive what leather is meant.

I agree though: if you read the sentence it's difficult to understand.

I don't know if I feel more familiar with this kind of structure as I'm not a native speaker and strangly inserted descriptive parts aren't that uncommon in German

@MiniDrachin

it is almost a non-reality in English as properly sentence structure is held as very important by almost all English Teachers, or at least the ones, I have had experience within my entire life.

Native English speakers (At least at Higher level in specifically the Irish education system.) are taught to keep writing clean of such errors and mistakes.

There are many ways to fix this sentence. But anyone of these fixes will do, it just doesn't work in it's current state.

It could even be improved on with some descriptive words like the following.

"The Dragon Leather of the effigy is being held together by a sticky mold which smells rather sickening"

But that is not entirely necessary, I just think it would make the description flow better and stand out more.

@ParasiticHeart
The tooltip is trying to get across:
"The dragon leather it is held together with is molding and smells awful."

As in, it is being held together by dragon leather that's molding and smells awful. Not that the dragon leather itself is held together by its smelly mold.
The sentence is in all senses 100% correct, but it is confusing, as you have pointed out.

The whole tooltip reads:
"A crudely-fashioned doll that resembles the Plaugebringer. The dragon leather it's held together with is molding and smells awful."

In order to be more clear, I think the correct route would be:
"It's held together with moldy and awful-smelling dragon leather."
Or
"It's made of moldy and awful-smelling dragon leather."
Or
"It's held together with dragon leather that's molding and smells awful."

[quote name="Alyxsandre" date=2017-10-20 11:01:34] @ParasiticHeart The tooltip is trying to get across: "The dragon leather it is held together with is molding and smells awful." As in, it is being held together by dragon leather that's molding and smells awful. Not that the dragon leather itself is held together by its smelly mold. The sentence is in all senses 100% correct, but it is confusing, as you have pointed out. The whole tooltip reads: "A crudely-fashioned doll that resembles the Plaugebringer. The dragon leather it's held together with is molding and smells awful." In order to be more clear, I think the correct route would be: "It's held together with moldy and awful-smelling dragon leather." Or "It's made of moldy and awful-smelling dragon leather." Or "It's held together with dragon leather that's molding and smells awful." [/quote] Holy arcane bobbles, I just realized that.... I read that sentence at least 20 times and still couldn't see what people meant when they said it was "100% correct". See, I guess my brain is trained to read things in a certain way and the phrasing used to construct the sentence obviously flew right over my head. Even when you mentioned what you did above, it took me another couple minutes of thinking to realize and understand what people were saying. Man, I look like such an arrogant fool now, I apologize. It totally flew over my head probably in due in part to all the additional work I have been doing recently at School and also due to how I read things in general. My finest apologies...

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