Mar-24-2013, 11:25 AM (UTC)
Didn't the silver on Fitz merely fade in colour more than went away? Am I forgetting something later in the books where it completely went?
Am also thinking the way Mercor brought up the silver and Tintaglia not (not in our view anyway) is more down to his more inquisitive nature, he seems to think everything through more than any other dragon. Tintaglia went crazy and destroyed the well when she couldn't get any silver rather than think I could go get Ryan/Malta/Seldon to get me some. Saying that at the time she hadn't taken them on as Elderlings yet and wouldn't deem it dragon worthy to carry one all that way but still highlights her more immediate nature.
Also finished the book in the week but didn't have a chance to come back here.
Joost I feel exactly the same about Rapskal, I was praying he would be the sole casualty from the one day war. Talking about Rapskal I think it will be interesting to see how the leadership develops within the elderlings, I think given their heritage a council of some sort will be likely (will the humans be allowed in it). More interesting will be Rapskal vs King/Queen Ryan/Malta.
Lastly anyone else think in the penultimate chapter with Tamymara and Tats walking around in the hills they were gonna come across the stone dragons, that would have been interesting. Would they have awoken any....
Oh one more thing (sorry had too much building up in my brain) I know I have seen a few discussion about the magics in the northern people (six duchies and out islands) and their origin. I think it must be clear they are some sort of descendent of the old elderlings. I guess the main questions are why are they not marked/changed.
There are two things I am thinking, one is that some of the last elderlings and dragons managed to change their children to be unmarked knowing that this would be the only way to continue their race/families without dragons in the world. The other could be kinda the opposite to what happens in the Trehaug. In Trehaug the humans manage to kinda survive with the unmanaged changes due to luck in numbers more than anything (lots of failed births some survive). Could the opposite have happened with the surviving elderlings, a couple of surviving births without the dragons. These would have be unmarked/unchanged or progressively over the generations also mixing in with normal humans.
Its also worth mentioning the magics have clearly been split (can't remember all the magics in the realm but there was the note on the circle of magics in one book). These must all have come from the elderlings but not all descendents kept all their magics, this seems to have developed to those that have kept a magic being stronger in that magic (at least to how we see our current elderlings developing/memories of old).
Sorry its a few different discussions all in one post, if anyone knows of more relevant threads to continue individual topics I would be pleased to continue there (although probably once more people have the new book to avoid spoilers)
Am also thinking the way Mercor brought up the silver and Tintaglia not (not in our view anyway) is more down to his more inquisitive nature, he seems to think everything through more than any other dragon. Tintaglia went crazy and destroyed the well when she couldn't get any silver rather than think I could go get Ryan/Malta/Seldon to get me some. Saying that at the time she hadn't taken them on as Elderlings yet and wouldn't deem it dragon worthy to carry one all that way but still highlights her more immediate nature.
Also finished the book in the week but didn't have a chance to come back here.
Joost I feel exactly the same about Rapskal, I was praying he would be the sole casualty from the one day war. Talking about Rapskal I think it will be interesting to see how the leadership develops within the elderlings, I think given their heritage a council of some sort will be likely (will the humans be allowed in it). More interesting will be Rapskal vs King/Queen Ryan/Malta.
Lastly anyone else think in the penultimate chapter with Tamymara and Tats walking around in the hills they were gonna come across the stone dragons, that would have been interesting. Would they have awoken any....
Oh one more thing (sorry had too much building up in my brain) I know I have seen a few discussion about the magics in the northern people (six duchies and out islands) and their origin. I think it must be clear they are some sort of descendent of the old elderlings. I guess the main questions are why are they not marked/changed.
There are two things I am thinking, one is that some of the last elderlings and dragons managed to change their children to be unmarked knowing that this would be the only way to continue their race/families without dragons in the world. The other could be kinda the opposite to what happens in the Trehaug. In Trehaug the humans manage to kinda survive with the unmanaged changes due to luck in numbers more than anything (lots of failed births some survive). Could the opposite have happened with the surviving elderlings, a couple of surviving births without the dragons. These would have be unmarked/unchanged or progressively over the generations also mixing in with normal humans.
Its also worth mentioning the magics have clearly been split (can't remember all the magics in the realm but there was the note on the circle of magics in one book). These must all have come from the elderlings but not all descendents kept all their magics, this seems to have developed to those that have kept a magic being stronger in that magic (at least to how we see our current elderlings developing/memories of old).
Sorry its a few different discussions all in one post, if anyone knows of more relevant threads to continue individual topics I would be pleased to continue there (although probably once more people have the new book to avoid spoilers)
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