Tawny Man Trilogy - questions (SPOILERS)

[Mervi]

About Fitz's perspective.  I read the Tawny Man series first, and when I eventually read the Farseer trilogy, I found that things had not occurred at all as I expected them to.  Especially with regards to how Fitz remembered Verity.  It seems like he vastly exaggerated the importance of some of his interactions with Verity, Chade, and even Shrewd.  Passing remarks from these father figures seem to become treasured memories for Fitz.  The Tawny Man made me expect there to have been a great deal more interaction between Verity and Fitz than there turned out to be in the Farseer trilogy.

That's such an interesting remark! I sort of see it from a point of view where young Fitz is pretty lonely/isolated in his human relationships, so even brief interactions with these folks he looks up to are really formative for him. (Also I think he had a lot of sort of repetitive meetings with Verity in the Skill Tower for example, but we're only privy to a few).

But on the other hand

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it also seems to me that these adults had a lot more to do with him than he knew as a youngster, as shown in the correspondence between Chivalry and Burrich for example).