Others' Island (spoilers all books incl RWC)

[Farseer]

The statuette of a future version of Elliania that Dutiful found at the treasure beach is the one loose end that really sticks in my craw from the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies....But how and why the Elliania figurine was created, and how it came to be on that beach for Dutiful and Fitz to find and bring back seems unexplainable.

Though I do wonder if there's not more to it (something to be revealed later maybe, or never!), as much of Fool's prophecies hinged on the birth and survival of a throned Farseer heir, I just tried to take the figurine of Elliana on face value...that she is the mother of the future Farseer heir, the one who helps ensure the continuance of the Farseer line?

Kennit also found a female figurine and, in the same vein, I just assumed this to be Etta, the mother of the future 'King of the Pirate Isles'. Etta's bounty was the baby figurine, also pointing to this same child.

Possibly Prince Prosper Farseer and Prince Paragon Ludluck will have important roles to play in future instalments, or it's simply that they symbolise the 'new course'?

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Thanks re your comments on iron. I wondered if this was the case (that it is used elsewhere through the fantasy genre at times, to ward off magic). I can't recall reading anything like that before but then I have not read as much fantasy as most other Hobb fans seem to have .

It had been niggling at me that I HAD read something of iron warding off magic before...and then I went and re-read our 3 word story...ah, only NOW is the 'iron' reference in that finally made clear to me :rolleyes: !!!