Small, random questions about RotE that still bother you (spoilers all RotE books)

[Farseer]

No need for any spoiler tags for this thread unless it's for City of Dragons or Blood of Dragons, LegionOfBrad, as these haven't yet been released for UK and US/UK respectively. As you will see in the thread title, there is a spoiler tag for 'all RotE books'...though I can see why it should already be amended to "up to DH". Thanks for checking though!

As for your question, funny that we've been chatting about it over in the The ending doesn't make sense? thread (as well as elsewhere previously). Quoting it here but leaving the LST tags in the post for you LOB.

The one thing I would like to have seen is Hap learning who his foster father really was. With his minstrel's thirst for a good story, that would have taken many evenings by the fire, before Hap went back to his own life on the road.

The problem with posting so many posts is that I have lost myself...I know I have mentioned something of this before but I know not what nor where so apologies for what's coming!

I agree, and it will be interesting to learn just how much he actually DID know by the end of Fool's Fate...he was, after all, present at Fitz and Molly's wedding. If he was not told why and what relationship Fitz had with them, he would have, at the very least, been rather curious as to the guests of the wedding eg the King, Queen and Prince! It would have been unusual to have royalty in attendance at a wedding of a mere guardsman (Tom Badgerlock rather than FitzChivalry Farseer).

What we also don't know is if his comments about getting a "kiss from his new sister" meant that Hap thought he and Nettle were considered brother and sister due to the wedding itself (in that his foster father, Fitz, married Nettle's mother, Molly) or that they were 'brother and sister' due to the fact that Fitz was Nettle's biological father and also his foster father.

Either way, if any minstrel ever gets the true inside scoop on Fitz, I am glad that it's Hap. Given my natterings about the relationships of minstrels to dragons, the Rooster Crown etc ... *LST spoiler*

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eg that Tintaglia spoke of Selden as her little minstrel

... I am very happy that Hap chose to be a minstrel.

As Fitz glossed over the details, I'd like to think that all will be explained in any future book that he may narrate, much like what happened when he glossed over things at the end of Assassin's Quest but then came back and filled in the details for us at the beginning of Fool's Errand. If so, we would then learn what, if anything, Hap was told.

As for knowing if Fitz is Witted or not, I guess that as soon as Hap were to find out that Tom was actually FitzChivalry Farseer, he would have to know that he was Witted...even if he had not heard the tales of Fitz, he would certainly have heard and even learned the songs, especially Antler Island Tower, after Starling gave all of her songs to him.

I assume that Hap would know. Why would Fitz explain all to Molly, Nettle and Molly and Burrich's boys, only to leave his own foster son in the dark? He promised no more secrets and I expect that Hap would have been included in this circle?