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

[Farseer]

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 have finally found the names of the runes from the Out Islander game that Kettricken played with Peottre. These were similar to her Mountain Kingdom runes, and also similar to the various glyphs on the Skill-pillars.

Altogether there were twelve runes, with six that seemed to signify characters and six signifying locations:

Locations

harbour
beach
glacier
cave
mountain
motherhouse

Characters

hunter
warrior
fisher
allmother
smith
weaver

This number of runes is interesting (and could be hugely significant!!) because, for a naming ceremony to occur, a boy needs to have a Man sponsoring him and also twelve other Men present .

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If these DO have a connection with the Man Ceremony, possibly the Men were cloaked and hooded but wore masks that bore the glyph or rune of each character/location on the face? That would make sense to me, regardless if they were people representing the Pillars or actually the Pillars themselves.

Hmm, maybe these facets of the Skill-pillars also mirror the different representations or facets of Sa...whoooo !

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I have spent SO MUCH TIME looking in the books for this list of runes and, guess what? They were already in the wiki !!! Outislander game *sigh* When will I learn to look there FIRST?!