Blood of Dragons discussion thread - SPOILERS, obvs

[Valarya]

I finished the book a week or more ago, but have been way too busy to stop by here for a decent 'chat' about it. I want to go ahead and reply to a few things from pages 1 and 2 since I already have a long list of quotes here and all the posts on page 3 are just incredibly long, hahah.

What Farseer feels about Molly, I feel about Rapskal. He's an utter arse.

See, I had translated the entire Blood of Dragons dutch discussion a long time back and saw you discussing how much of an ass you though Rapskal was. This is where I might ruin myself a bit with spoilers, because I kept waiting for him to be a major ass the whole book. But it never happened, for me at least.

I like what she did with his character, showing the ability that you could completely soak up another person's essence and memories just by experiencing SOME memories from their life. It isn't Rapskal's fault that he chose a prior-Warrior. And if you think about all the ways Tellator behaved, they were probably acceptable and normal for someone in his esteem and position to behave and speak back when the city was originally alive and Elderlings existed. It only seems so 'rude' now because it's out of the current time.

I find it interesting how the dragons kept mentioning that their contact with humans changed them.

Tintaglia's in for a surprise when some of her eggs hatch, methinks.

I don't think it would be a surprise for any of the dragons to see a mutant hatchling. That's what the Others are on Other's island. They're so deformed that the dragons are embarrassed of them and make them remain there as we learned much earlier.

What struck me was that Mercor could sense the silver touch on Malta. Should Tintaglia have sensed it on Fitz when she visted for Dutiful's wedding, presuming they came into some sort of contact?

If you recall, memory of the Silver was a hazy thing for these dragons. They knew there was SOME reason Kelsingra existed and something there they wanted/needed... but it took quite some time before they remembered Silver. I'm sure Tintaglia just hadn't remembered it.

It was Tintaglia who gifted Amber with the Elderling robe and tent which Lord Golden/Beloved used while on Aslevjal.

Are you sure? I just assumed he got the robe and tent (and other things) from the pirate-cache they all found in the Rain Wilds via Paragon's memory...

One thing is certain. Actually this is one of the things that I will be adding to the Malta thread (!), *but* where Fool's silver touch on Malta prompted her to change physically (it was from that point on her neck that Elderling scaling began on Malta), it did not for Fitz. For all of the years that he had carried those marks on his skin, never did they develop into scaling. Curious is it not? Nor did either Verity or Kettle scale at any point despite being lathed in silver from the Skill River itself. Why?

In addition to your theory of the 'higher calling' of being a Farseer, I think it mainly has to do with this one very obvious thing:
- Malta was born around the magic of the Rain Wilds from parents who were born around the magic of the RW... the thing that typically transforms humans there. Fitz did not come from that lineage and hasn't spent a large quantity of time there. In fact, he only visited Bingtown and didn't venture too far up the river.