History
In the 21st century, more than 99% of all eggs consumed by humans are chicken eggs.
In medieval Europe and pretty much the entire planet Earth for most of history, humans have eaten a wide variety of eggs, but eating chicken eggs was historically the most common. Prehistoric humans were not picky about what eggs they ate while hunting and foraging and more than a few medieval humans would eat wild eggs of various sorts when they were available.
Chickens are the most efficient producers of high protein eggs known to mankind, but eating chicken eggs wasn't near 99% common.
In medieval Europe, and most of human history, humans were opportunistic about the eggs they ate. If they could get a hold of an edible egg, they'd eat it. This pragmatism for eating available eggs is a logical extension of the "waste not, want not" attitude common to both Scarterra and Medieval Earth
Eating ducks and goose eggs was not as common as eating chicken eggs, but if and when people kept these fowl, they would normally eat the eggs not needed for breeding the next generation.
Throughout history, if humans kept fowl, they probably ate the eggs at some point. For an extremely example, rich people kept peacocks on their estates as living decorations to flaunt their wealth. Peacocks weren't kept for food or as work animals, and they weren't kept for their eggs. Still, in most cases, the predominant attitude was "As long as the peahens are laying more eggs than we need for the next generation of peacocks, we might as well eat them".
In some cases, eating peacock eggs became a status flex in and of itself independent of simply having peacocks.
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All the norms of Earth humans eating eggs apply to Scarterra as well.
The plurality if not majority of eggs eaten are chicken eggs. The next largest group is duck eggs followed by goose eggs, but Scarterrans will eat whatever eggs pragmatism allows.
Scarterra has more than a few hunter-gatherer barbarian tribes, both human and non-human. They are usually pretty open minded about what sorts of eggs they eat.
Some Scarterrans have values similar to modern environmentalists and others do not. If a non-sapient supernatural species lays eggs, Scarterrans may or may not view it as an amoral act to eat these eggs, especially if the species is rare and/or endangered.
Some Scarterrans will seek to eat rare eggs as status flex, but even if its not considered amoral, it is probably considered wasteful. In most cases, exotic eggs (including eggs of sapient creatures) are more valuable as reagents than they are as food.
Creatures such as dragons and tengku have to stop other creatures from stealing their eggs for use as reagents far more often than they have to stop other creatures from trying to eat them.
Bonecracker eggs.
During the First Age, dinosaurs and dragons co-existed. During the course of the First Age, the dragons deliberately drove some species of dinosaurs into extinction. During First Unmaking, a lot of the dinosaurs had their habitats destroyed and dragons and giants were often desperate for food and any dinosaur they found was a walking source of meat.Very few dinosaurs survived into the the Second Age and the Third Age. The most well-known throwback dinosaurs is bonecrackers.
Bonecrackers are a species of pterodactyl that was altered by thousands of years of domestication and is barely recognizable from their wild ancestors. Much like chickens, bonecrackers were and are selectively bred over generations for their egg production. Pound for pound, bonecrackers are less efficient producers of eggs than chickens, but the ancient dragons didn't have chickens in the First Age. And in later ages, many humans and elves like to eat Bonecracker eggs for the sheer novelty of eating eggs the size of melons.
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Eating eggs of supernatural creatures
It is noteworthy that Scarterra is a fantasy world. Scarterra has a lot of egg laying creatures that Earth does not have. Some of these creatures are magical creatures and some are mortal (sapient) creatures. Many egg laying creatures are mortal and magical. Across most Scarterran lands, nations, and tribes, eating the eggs of a mortal species is considered extremely amoral, either equivalent to cannibalism or almost as bad as cannibalism. Any mortal species that learns of another person or group eating their eggs, be they mighty dragon or humble tengku, they are probably going to be feeling very vengeful towards the people eating their eggs.Egg of Common Raven. Collection of Henri Heim de Balsac/Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut. by Didier Descouens (photographer)
Rabbits Providing Eggs?
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