Malta *spoilers all Hobb books*

[finella]

I just finished "The mad ship", therefore all is hopefully pretty fresh to me.

Coming back the Malta onboard The Paragon I believe it was the dominant dragon inside Paragon and Tintaglia, that fought over her. The dominant "Paragon-dragon" was golden and Tintaglia at that time iriscident silver (or better dreamt she was). The golden one in my opinion only wanted vengeance for everything the humans did to him. For Tintaglia Malta was a tiny chance to live. And Amber got Malta back resp. stabilized her with her skill, as she had held Malta's head without her glove and touched her neck with her fingertips. When Malta awoke again she first rubbed the back of her neck, where Amber/The Fool had left the fingerprint. I'm sure, there was/is a skill-link between them.

Ähem,what else ...? Ah, yes! Tintaglia herself told Reyn, that Malta didn't drown in the memories: "She dove into them, most willingly. From the moment she entered the city, she was far more open to it than any other I have encountered. She dove and she swam."

To Malta, a lot of things in the old city seemed very familiar, even some music, the theatre and things conc. art.
Wasn't Ronica a born Carrock? If yes (I'm not absolutely sure), she certainly will share Carillions memories and therefore feel so familiar in there and didn't drown in the memories.

One question: were is said, that Tintaglia is silver-blue? When she hatched, her body changed from black to dark blue and her wings also became blue.

"Then, like dye spilled in water, color flowed through them. Her wings went from transparent to translucend to a rich sparkling blue. As she waved them slowly and unevenly, Reyn could see the strength building in them. She unlidded her eyes suddenly; they glinted silver. She looked at herself. "Blue. Not silver, as I dreamed. Blue.""
(I always thought here eyes were copper)