Sep-22-2014, 03:50 PM (UTC)
Hello everyone! I'm a long time reader but new member here. I agree with the enthusiasm this book is causing. The novel is an achievement on its own. That it continued the story in a way I (at least) never expected was a welcome surprise. I loved it so much I immediately reread it. Honestly I've never done that before.
And yeah. Bee. Compelling and completely realized. Easily one of my favorite characters ever. Did anyone else have to put the book down for awhile when she writes, "It was time for me to begin behaving as my father's daughter."?
I read all the posts in this thread so I just wanted to ask/speculate on a few things that I don't think were covered.
1) Lant's parentage. I do think it's Laurel and Chade. Fitz wonders at some point if the father was someone more scandalizing (Chade) so an arrangement that was less likely to raise the wrong eyebrow was made.
2) Shun's parentage. I kind of think she's the offspring of Chade and Starling Birdsong. We do learn that her mother was a noblewoman.
3) Did we meet Bee previously (and very briefly) toward the beginning of ASSASSIN'S QUEST? After Fjtz is brought back and trying to become human again, he describes what is happening at certain moments of his wit-bond with Nighteyes: "And sometimes there was another with Nighteyes and me, another who thought with us. He was very small, but he was there. I did not want him there. I did not want anyone there, ever again, except Nighteyes and me. He knew that, and made himself so small that most of the time he was not there."
I haven't read the other forums/threads so apologies if this has all been covered before!
I understand the problems with this conjecture, but Bee's dream journal entry before her first POV chapter immediately made me think of that passage as I always wondered who that could be. We know that the use of the male pronoun is not really an issue in this case. And if that is Bee, it would mean that time does not exist as a barrier or limiter in the Wit-bond of Fitz and Nighteyes or in Bee's dreams. (It would also mean that Bee was in the works well before someone had claimed to have stopped writing about these characters.)
4) Patience had a two-year absence from the Six Duchies after caught "kissing" Burrich? More than enough room for suspicion that the real story is something else entirely. This probably more than anything else baited me and I hope we learn more on this subject.
5) In the Fool's homeland, it is the custom for a child to have two fathers. Neither the mechanics or further details about this custom are offered, but apparently that is the case. So, the Fool is the other father of Bee, somehow? He and Fitz did share the same body at least once and obviously share a lot more than that.
And yeah. Bee. Compelling and completely realized. Easily one of my favorite characters ever. Did anyone else have to put the book down for awhile when she writes, "It was time for me to begin behaving as my father's daughter."?
I read all the posts in this thread so I just wanted to ask/speculate on a few things that I don't think were covered.
1) Lant's parentage. I do think it's Laurel and Chade. Fitz wonders at some point if the father was someone more scandalizing (Chade) so an arrangement that was less likely to raise the wrong eyebrow was made.
2) Shun's parentage. I kind of think she's the offspring of Chade and Starling Birdsong. We do learn that her mother was a noblewoman.
3) Did we meet Bee previously (and very briefly) toward the beginning of ASSASSIN'S QUEST? After Fjtz is brought back and trying to become human again, he describes what is happening at certain moments of his wit-bond with Nighteyes: "And sometimes there was another with Nighteyes and me, another who thought with us. He was very small, but he was there. I did not want him there. I did not want anyone there, ever again, except Nighteyes and me. He knew that, and made himself so small that most of the time he was not there."
I haven't read the other forums/threads so apologies if this has all been covered before!
I understand the problems with this conjecture, but Bee's dream journal entry before her first POV chapter immediately made me think of that passage as I always wondered who that could be. We know that the use of the male pronoun is not really an issue in this case. And if that is Bee, it would mean that time does not exist as a barrier or limiter in the Wit-bond of Fitz and Nighteyes or in Bee's dreams. (It would also mean that Bee was in the works well before someone had claimed to have stopped writing about these characters.)
4) Patience had a two-year absence from the Six Duchies after caught "kissing" Burrich? More than enough room for suspicion that the real story is something else entirely. This probably more than anything else baited me and I hope we learn more on this subject.
5) In the Fool's homeland, it is the custom for a child to have two fathers. Neither the mechanics or further details about this custom are offered, but apparently that is the case. So, the Fool is the other father of Bee, somehow? He and Fitz did share the same body at least once and obviously share a lot more than that.
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