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

[Mervi]

You're connecting some very interesting dots here, Lady Persephone!
I rrrreally need to make the time to re-read the latest trilogy and make notes about all the Whites/Clerres related terms that are still missing from the wiki.

I don't have much to add except that I love the fact that we actually finally got an explanation for something that at the time just felt like a bit of an intentional mystery ("two cousins as fathers... as is the custom") in the background of a mysterious character that would probably never be resolved. I remember it has generated some speculation over the years (does it mean simply that the custom was for three people to raise children? Does the custom demand the fathers to be cousins specifically or can they be unrelated?  Are they both biological fathers? How does that biology work etc?) but it never seemed like it really mattered for the story what the answers were. But here we are, all these books later and that old little mystery has become a major plot point!