May-31-2010, 01:38 AM (UTC)
As much as I'd like to, I just can't possibly keep up with you two on this (am far too busy at the moment 
!) but I would just like to add that we have to remember that things will most likely have changed quite a lot on Aslevjal, at least in the Elderling city itself. At the end of Fool's Fate, Fitz noticed that things had already begun to change back to the way they were prior to the Pale Woman taking up residence there eg ice was melting, the city itself had increased in temperature etc.
As far as I remember, it was Prilkop who had instigated the colder climate/changes in the first place, to try and discourage the Pale Woman from staying, and so it was within his power to reverse those changes once she had died. Prilkop had said something to Fitz about changing it back and Fitz had asked him why he was bothering. I can't remember Prilkop's reply but it alluded to 'you never know', as though he was re-preparing it for an expected Elderling habitation once more...
No doubt, while Fitz was suspended for that month within the Skill pillar, Prilkop would have wrought many more changes to the city and therefore it would have been quite different, I'd say, by the time Chade had travelled there and retrieved the memory cubes etc...
!) but I would just like to add that we have to remember that things will most likely have changed quite a lot on Aslevjal, at least in the Elderling city itself. At the end of Fool's Fate, Fitz noticed that things had already begun to change back to the way they were prior to the Pale Woman taking up residence there eg ice was melting, the city itself had increased in temperature etc. As far as I remember, it was Prilkop who had instigated the colder climate/changes in the first place, to try and discourage the Pale Woman from staying, and so it was within his power to reverse those changes once she had died. Prilkop had said something to Fitz about changing it back and Fitz had asked him why he was bothering. I can't remember Prilkop's reply but it alluded to 'you never know', as though he was re-preparing it for an expected Elderling habitation once more...
No doubt, while Fitz was suspended for that month within the Skill pillar, Prilkop would have wrought many more changes to the city and therefore it would have been quite different, I'd say, by the time Chade had travelled there and retrieved the memory cubes etc...
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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