Tawny Man Trilogy - questions (SPOILERS)

[Lord Punctual]

I need to do some rereading (Oh how I love having people to discuss these things with!!) but I'm almost sure that the Fool is in fact a separate race from humans. I believe that he as much as says that a White Prophet is the result of recessive genes, which resulted from Whites marrying into human stock, reconstituting in an individual. Kind of like a recessive genetic disorder. Neither parent is effected, as they each have only one copy of the effected gene. However, their unlucky offspring who gets both defective genes from his parents has the disorder.

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.