The Fool (spoilers for all RotE books, including LST)

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By the time this event happened in Fool's Fate (Fitz being caught between the Skill-pillars), Tintaglia and Icefyre had already met and mated and Tintaglia had managed to force Icefyre to place his head on the hearthstone of the Mothershouse. The dragons in the Rain Wilds had also long ago emerged (Fool spoke of them to Fitz right at the beginning of TM while both were reunited at the hut). So. By the time Fitz came into contact with this presence, Tintaglia was in company with other dragons....

I was thinking about this today. I have not read the Rain Wilds series, however, I have a question that is unlikely to present a spoiler for anyone. Roughly how much time elapsed in that world between the end of Liveships and the beginning of Tawny Man? You say that dragons had hatched "long ago" by the time the Fool visited Fitz at his hut, (cabin? ....was it the cabin where Fitz lived with Hap and Nighteyes or a hut? I don't recall a hut.)

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Correct me if I am wrong, but I am sure Robin has stated previously fool's fate wasn't intended to be the end of Fitz's story and as such the ending was perhaps intended to gloss over things she had no intention of writing about in great detail but had to be resolved before the next book could begin (i.e. Chade's future role, the fighting between the piebalds & the old blood, even Fitz's seeming indifference to the fool's absence)....

I have read quotes of her stating she felt had finished the Fitz story with the end of Tawny Man. If she wrote that ending in preparation for future books, she essentially ruined what she had invested years of creative work building. In one chapter she dismantled quite a number of key elements.

As she left it, I cannot imagine the story continuing without significant focus on the children including Dutiful, Nettle and all of the kids Burrich and Molly produced as they had become the responsibility of Fitz. He certainly would not have the freedom he once had to take off on various adventures. Chade was already old. He might not live long enough to be included in any future books.