...the Elderling-wrought artifacts that end up on the Treasure Beach are all impervious to the ocean and other elements such as weather etc, just as liveships and simulacra dragons etc have proven to be impervious, and just as these newly-painted hulls have proven to be impervious. A memory stone, wizardwood or Skill-wrought connection between them is thus obvious to me?

An added point is that maybe the paint for the hulls is even a concoction of the priests of Sa, though I can't remember what is said of the creator of the paint in RWC (?), created while under the influence of the Skill during training/artwork creation sessions? Those priests have some role to play in the downfall of the realm, I am certain of it!

This all makes my mind flit like a flea back to the hulls of the Red Ships, as I did once before:

(Nov-13-2010, 02:46 PM (UTC))Farseer Wrote: Was there ever a reason given WHY the hulls of the Red-Ships were painted red, other than an obvious one, like, that the PW liked red?

I know the ships all looked exactly the same and this made it difficult for Fitz, Verity etc to determine how they were going with decreasing the size of the fleet: "We could not even put an accurate number to the Red-Ships that plagued us, for they were painted identically, and as like as peas in a pod."

Possibly the Pale Woman was on to something with not only the simulacra dragons (creating her own with Kebal Rawbread to outdo the SD simulacra) but also painting hulls? Maybe she, with her Skill abilities and knowledge from scrolls, somehow stumbled onto the thought that memory stone etc could be used to create paint for impervious hulls and this is what the red hulls were actually for? Maybe she was giving priority to creating the simulacra dragon first and then would use the ships to plunder the Rain Wilds or something (thought this was never suggested at any point...just a pondering on the red hulls on my part as I can't help but think of the red hulls when I consider these new, impervious ones! ). She would not overly need impervious hulls for anything else as she already had a source of memory stone in the Aslevjal quarry...but then may have wanted to reach Kelsingra etc to make sure of its destruction and was not aware of the use of the Skill-pillars to do so? Tsk! I digress, and digress....!

I bring all this up simply to point out the possibility that an impervious hull may not be freshly created/thought about. Also, as those beings known as 'thul have said, Jamaillia did know of the river well before. During the LST series though, it is pointed out often how the Rain Wilders and Bingtowners held their cards (secrets) very close to their chests and how little those outside of their circles knew. More and more as Time trundles on (and I use a capital 'T' here deliberately as a connection to Fitz, Fool and Time) and the gradual move to unity is made, as per the first precept of Sa, the more that others will learn the secrets and full history of the realm...and want to take action.