Jun-03-2010, 01:37 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Jun-03-2010, 01:39 PM (UTC) by Farseer.)
Getting totally off-track re the Treasure Beach items...
Where do the ships go when they disappear from the eastern side of Others Island? Do they end up near a land far across the ocean, maybe even near where the Great Sail Fleet hails? If ships have the ability to leave and then vanish, this would suggest they vanish via a Skill pillar (possibly from being anchored near the one which Fitz and Dutiful used, or another one further out to sea given there is plenty of 'black rock' in the vicinity?) and emerge elsewhere via a distant Skill pillar. If this is the case, and there is a Skill pillar which allows these ships to emerge from, it would suggest that the lands east of the currently known 'realm' have also been exposed to Elderlings and dragons etc?
Why was Vivacia able to sail onto this eastern side to save Wintrow, Etta and Kennit without vanishing, as other ships have been known to do? One must be Skilled to enter a Skill pillar...would not a liveship then be the very ship that could enter a Skill pillar, as opposed to an everyday, wooden ship.
Also, if Others are the products of dragons and Elderlings/humans, and have the ability to use glamour/Skill suggestions (so are therefore most likely Skilled), why have they never tried to use the Skill pillar near the beach? Is it because they are more dragon than human and can't use the pillars, or because they choose not to for some reason?
Where do the ships go when they disappear from the eastern side of Others Island? Do they end up near a land far across the ocean, maybe even near where the Great Sail Fleet hails? If ships have the ability to leave and then vanish, this would suggest they vanish via a Skill pillar (possibly from being anchored near the one which Fitz and Dutiful used, or another one further out to sea given there is plenty of 'black rock' in the vicinity?) and emerge elsewhere via a distant Skill pillar. If this is the case, and there is a Skill pillar which allows these ships to emerge from, it would suggest that the lands east of the currently known 'realm' have also been exposed to Elderlings and dragons etc?
Why was Vivacia able to sail onto this eastern side to save Wintrow, Etta and Kennit without vanishing, as other ships have been known to do? One must be Skilled to enter a Skill pillar...would not a liveship then be the very ship that could enter a Skill pillar, as opposed to an everyday, wooden ship.
Also, if Others are the products of dragons and Elderlings/humans, and have the ability to use glamour/Skill suggestions (so are therefore most likely Skilled), why have they never tried to use the Skill pillar near the beach? Is it because they are more dragon than human and can't use the pillars, or because they choose not to for some reason?
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