city of dragons character help

['thul]

the farseer books were set up to a decade or so before the liveship books, which were set similarly before the Tawny Man books, who again were set 6-7 years or so before the rain wild chronicles. (Farseer will no doubt have more exact numbers on hand)

The thing about kelsingra is that although elderlings could use the city, it was designed to work for dragons. Only the return of dragonkind would bring the city to full life.
Fitz, although somewhat trained in the skill and with limited wit training, lacked the full natural abilities of Elderlings and he was human, not dragon.