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

[Farseer]

Oh, Narya. I wish I could do something with time just so I could spend time replying properly to this! It's 4:22am and I am up trying to get some other things done but will give it a bare bones stab!

First though...@fool-ish: I've got snippets of all this and related discussion elsewhere but Sa (at least as we are suggested of Sa thus far) has a least a female, male and a serpent aspect, as well as a jewel face. This use of the word 'jewel' in connection to the face could well be representative of the 'facets' of Sa (as jewels have facets and Sa, like Fool and many other characters, also has a number of facets) and/or be descriptive of Sa's actual, physical face eg scales like a dragon/Elderling.

As for the serpent aspect, Wintrow spoke of the followers of Odava when he went to Cress and Odava is the 'name' of the serpent god. Followers of Sa accept his part but followers of Odava believe Odava to be a god in his own right as they don't believe that he is an aspect of Sa. Possibly the male and female aspects of Sa could be El and Eda, though only known individually by those names in the Six Duchies and Out Islands etc?

Likely you'll find plenty more of all this over in the Mythical Creatures/Folk or earlier here in the Small, random questions threads, both of which will also include a discussion re Sa and connections with dragons and Elderlings etc. While you can't do a search on Sa (it only has two letters and so not enough to cover the min number of characters for a search! ) , you could try 'Odava' or 'jewel' or somesuch.

I also put a question to everyone over in the The Skill and The Witthread:

At the very beginning of Chapter Ten of AA, 'The Pocked Man', Fitz has this to say: "Tides and time wait for no man, and that I know is true. But time? Did the times I was born into await my birth to be? Did the events rumble into place like the great wooden gears of the clock of Sayntanns, meshing my conception and pushing my life along?"

I intend to ask a very different question about this passage in another thread but, for here and now, who or what is "Sayntanns"? Could this be the full, true name of "Sa"?

Now *that* is a conversation I have chomped at the bit to get back to!

EDIT: Posting this now so that I don't lose it like always (!) and will get onto to contributing something to the discussion re F & TM.