Others' Island (spoilers all books incl RWC)

[Nuytsia]

I think the nails on the beach were false fingernails, not human nails that had been removed, so I'm not sure that removed fingernails are really relevant.

Yes, sorry I was a bit ambiguous there! I didn't think the ones on the beach were actual removed fingernails (Gross!!) I was just sort of musing on whether the Fool has any fingernails now........
I guess the false fingernails just go over regular fingernails, they aren't for people without fingernails (or are they? heh)

this could even stand for Kennit turning his back on the opportunity to himself become an Elderling

Hehehe that possibility blows my mind!

In the same vein, maybe all of the objects he left behind were symbols of opportunities he turned his back on...things that didn't come to pass for him...and it was only the ruby earring and figurine of Etta, as the objects he actually took away with him, that symbolized the opportunities he wished to grasp?
eg Dutiful took the necklace of Elliana and their marriage came to pass, Etta took the serpentine figurine and the birth of her baby came to pass, Fitz took the rooster feathers and these returned the White Prophet to him and, lastly, Wintrow took She Who Remembers and thus the serpents received their memories.

Oh this is great stuff! Gee that fits perfectly.

Getting off track a bit, I can’t help but also think of the rose he smashed, and wonder if this did not prophecy his crushing of Althea? This is a really difficult one as the rose was not actually picked up by him and so, therefore, was never technically part of ‘his’ future? Aside from that, the motley jesters who tumbled in unison makes me crazy to think about...it is just too connected to the Fool, minstrels/the Rooster Crown and the White Prophet who Fool and Fitz saw in the vision at the town plaza in AQ!!!

Hmmm interesting, I can't even remember those bits!

Possibly his wish even could have included a desire to be reunited with Paragon and then finally able to find peace in his being whole again...

Definitely!