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

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it wouldn't be avoiding the children, for they wouldn't be children.
Nor for that matter, could [insert most RWC characters names'] be considered the same.

it wouldn't be avoiding the children, for they wouldn't be children.
Nor for that matter, could [insert most RWC characters names'] be considered the same.

What the 'thul beings said. It wouldn't be avoiding the children.. but Tawny Man was still mostly about Fitz' journey, imo.

Oh come on! Of course they would be older but the characters are the same whether they are young or old......this does not refer to their personalities that would most likely be influenced by age and experience over time. Fitz has always been Fitz whether he was of "New Boy" age or going off to live with Molly in Withywoods, for instance.

With so many children in Fitz's life how could there be a future with Fitz without the children? They would all be grown up, married and living elsewhere? Perhaps, I concede.

....but Tawny Man was still mostly about Fitz' journey, imo.

I was speaking of the TM series plot. Tawny Man was mostly driven by Dutiful's Wit and arranged marriage. The books that included Fitz were addressed from his point of view but the story arc of each series centered around different plots, although they shared the overall story arc curve of the 9-book series. Everything from start to finish placed the characters where they were at any given time because of this underlying motive. Even in the very beginning before Fitz learned of Dutiful's problems a foundation was being laid down paving the way to pull Fitz back in action to assist with Dutiful. Fitz developed a relationship with Dutiful and Nettle in the process of assisting Dutiful, both, in his rescue from Piebalds and his quest to gain his bride to be's hand in marriage after attaining the head of the dragon. They would not have been on the island facing the Pale Woman without the challenge stemming from Dutiful's bride to be, and so on.

Somewhere on here there is a link in which Robin says something like that at the time her intention was to write about Fitz again at the end of Tawny Man but the amount of negative feedback made her feel she couldn't do it.

Again, whether true or not this does not indicate Hobb already had a story to prepare for. This is just a general feeling that she would probably write something with Fitz eventually and not that she intentionally set up the ending of Tawny Man to line up with specific ideas for a future book. If anything, Hobb clearly made an effort to provide closure at the end of TM in the event that she did not get around to some future tale with the characters.

Let's see this quote, please?

I looked in the Wiki and if it exists I did not see a place for Robin's quotes........it would be a great resource to have available for discussions.