The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince

[Farseer]

Jussi, as soon as I see your name and know that you have visited us, I smile. Thank you!

@ joost: Thanks for that. Not that I mind either way. I'd much rather pay more money straight up with SP and then know that I'm definitely not going to miss out...especially on this piece of the tale!

I am very much looking forward to hearing more about Princess/Queen-in-Waiting Caution and King Charger. I imagine we will find we sympathise with the latter, and I can't help but wonder if both their names are deliberate antonyms of each other. The mother cautious and the son bold? I get the feeling that it was not so much Sly o' the Wit's stealing her away, as her wishing to go.

I am also looking forward to learning more about Charger's 'powers' being weakest during the noon of the summer solstice. This makes me think on so many things at once, including the Skill, as it is a celestial magic, the Others' and Fool's reputed dislike of the sun and also what Redchild and I were chatting about in the The Skill and The Wit thread, with regard to the clock of Sayntanns and clocks being instruments that measure cosmic intervals .

http://forums.theplenty.net/showthread.php?tid=161

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Is that what a piebald horse would look like?

I'd not have thought so 'thul (this kind of marking makes me think more 'dappled' or even 'motley' than piebald) but, it is, of course, open to interpretation...as is any cover art or any illustration I suppose (Picasso anyone? ).

I may have been incorrectly labelling my horses all of my life (!) but, as far as I am aware, a piebald animal is an animal with black and white markings while a skewbald animal is an animal with any other colour besides black, with white markings. See the Jackie Morris UK cover art for 'The Golden Fool' for a piebald horse.

As an aside, I wonder if maybe it really *is* possible that Jackie Morris is also going to do a cover for this novella (see previous posts regarding this), with lino/block etc print, for the UK version only...which is the version that Amazon UK is possibly advertising and that joost is speaking of?

Or maybe Jackie has been commissioned to do the cover of some other Hobb novella? I doubt it *but* time will tell...