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

[mistrali]

Hi,

I signed up for this site just to ask this question:

Would Fitz and the peoples of the Six Duchies by considered "Black" by Earth standards? They are described as having dark skin, dark features, and Kettricken sticks out amongst them for her light features and mikly white skin.

However, all the artwork I see of Fitz show him as a white man.

thanks for any input.

THE FARSEERS ARE DEFINITELY DEFINITELY BLACK!!!

Robin Hobb has 0% input on the cover art. On the last RotE book, Fitz doesn't even have curly hair!!! The cover art is irrelevant. THE FARSEERS ARE ALL BLACK!!!

Sorry for necroing. But I always imagined the Buck people to be more Caucasoid (e.g. like Afghans, North Indians and others from S Asia) than Negroid. However, although it can be safely said that they’re darker skinned than Anglo-Saxons, I would hesitate to definitively classify them as black (in the sense of African American), since we don’t really know that they were. I’ll have to reread to check, but I don’t think we’re given enough information to really be sure.

Since Fitz‘s mother [SPOILER] was of the Mountains, he is likely to have lighter skin than your average Buckman (Starling, I think, mentions that he blushes more easily than people from Buck). Also came across these passages:

1) “But above the bright garments, my face was thin and pale, making my dark eyes too large...”
2) “It doesn’t matter if your face is pale, or if you can barely walk after a day in the saddle. You move as Chivalry’s son should.”
3) “shaved in the glass Burrich had left me, and then stared at the face there. Tanned brow and pale chin.”

I can’t remember Fitz ever having curly hair - where’s that mentioned?