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

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....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.

You might as well say that the Farseer trilogy was about Verity and Kettricken and Chade. While some people would say it was, they were just passing characters, as are Dutiful and Nettle. Are they important? Extremely. But when I think of the RotE story as a whole... I think of the overall plot. The beating heart of the story and why it was written, and that's the fact a scrawny White Prophet came forth to change the course of the future with his Catalyst. Everything that happens in the first 9 books is directly related to that.

As much as I love the details... I try to never lose sight of that simple fact.

Well, you might not have ever had sight on certain simple facts to lose.

The entire Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies were about Fitz. Obviously they were told from his point of view. Hobb described how each book has a story plot and conclusion as does each trilogy. Tawny Man's plot was driven by Dutiful's Wit and his arranged marriage. EVERYTHING moved to that beat while revolving around Fitz's point of view. The timeline and supporting history and events of Liveships served to fill in gaps of information coincidentally as much as intentionally as described by Hobb. Fitz wasn't in Liveships and that trilogy was written with a different approach seeing experiences from several character's perspectives instead of one main character. Yet the three were part of one large story arc looking at them from one level, an elevated level that allows one to see all of each trilogy in their entirety.