[split] What does the name "Farseer" really mean? SPOILERS ALL BOOKS

[Farseer]

I always thought the Pillars ARE the Witness Stones of Buck.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, Mervi. Do you mean you think the hooded figures are men who represent the Witness Stones OR that the Pillars are literally present at the ceremony in the form/guise of men eg that they exist as beings that also serve as the Witness Stones (and by extension are also the ones who deliver punishment etc to those brought forth to the Witness Stones for judgement?)? If it's the latter, wow, that's something new that bends my thinking in whole different direction - love it! Or have I missed your meaning entirely ?!

But since we know those have (no longer) any markings, I don't know what their masks would look like.

I was thinking that the glyphs within the hoods could be like those mentioned by Kettricken on the Skill Road in AQ and then in more detail when she shared them and also played the Out Islanders game (I think!) in the TM series. I only thought this because the glyphs all seemed to signify characters or elements, and the hooded men could be meant to signify them also. Love the theory of them being actual pillars though!

(I think the info on Constance is from RA chapt 29. However, that doesn't mean there isn't something else in somewhere else in the books about her... I'm starting to think we need to start using *some* sort of a references system in the wiki after all...)

Thanks for the tip as I had found some things but not what I needed with regard to her geographical origins. I admit it would be handy to have references in the wiki, though possibly time-consuming for some contributors (as a down side) on top of the work needed to simply complete entries. I wouldn't mind either way. I think it's only me who tangles details though...I add tiny extras in to comments that are not overly important to my main focus at times, especially when I am working on more than one task at a time or flitting over a number of theories while busy with other tasks eg it is more about having had Hisspit than any sort of Mountain connection with Constance that interests me but I know I was looking up something else about Fitz's mother having come from the Mountains at the time I made the post and so probably just took a huge leap and thought, 'Oh, Constance came from the Mountains too...that would fit with my thoughts that Hisspit was her Wit partner...I'll include that!' The more I have thought about it, the more I believe that's the case, and she did come from within the Six Duchies, not the Mountains. Aside from Hisspit, Constance isn't a character I had thought too much about previously!

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(I think the info on Constance is from RA chapt 29.

'She was very much of the Coastal folk' seems pretty conclusive to me, Mervi! Thanks.