Small, random questions about RotE that still bother you (spoilers all RotE books)

[Mervi]

Nyutsia, I don't KNOW who says that quote - Shrewd or Chade. But it seems that any such tests would be set by Shrewd, as he was the one the assassins were trained for. So even if it would be Chade giving the orders to the assassin-in-training, he could blame his younger brother for the results.

I also forgot to add that the Mountain Kingdom has its own language too - Fitz clearly mentions this is in AA and Kettricken refers to it again later.

The only things I know about the "proper" pronunciations are ones that Robin has mentioned years ago in the newsgroup:
- it's not that important to her how people pronounce the names, there's no definite "right" or "wrong" (but the following are how she herself imagined the following names to sound like, as I recall that conversation)

- Chade as in "shade" (this also fits with one of the Fool's jests/advice to Fitz in RA where he talks about shades)
- Burrich with a "ck" in the end, not the German "ch" (as in "ich") most people (me included) initially think of when seeing that name
- the Mountain names (Kettricken, Rurisk etc) should sound "scandinavian" (I think, but am not sure, that she means where the stress falls in each word - try to find a sample of spoken Swedish online, and I think you'll understand)