Nothing. The bag itself is important.
The question you've got to ask yourself is why the story has to take place inside this setting. If you can just skirt around without exploring it...
Anne famously loathes editors, and her writing clearly suffers because of it. Source: that one rant.
It's Chuck Tingle, so it's tinged heavily with parody / irony. It does actually exist, though.
Good Argument Awesome. Jemisin owns, and I've already been recced this. Will dive in.
Looking at much of literature, and not just fantasy, you could construct the same sort of point regarding a "straight cliché". What's happening...
BURP, I'm an idiot. Sorry.
If you're looking for critique on this, I don't really like it. It's too full, too laden with metaphor to be engaging or interesting like a first...
It's one of the weirder phrases Augustus coined.
Separate names with a comma.