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

[Farseer]

Maybe Fool was the sponsor, naming him as Changer

Just on the subject of a White Prophet renaming a Catalyst, I found this in FF:

"And then he required of her that she go to her parents, and deny them both, saying, "I have no mother, I have no father. I am only the Catalyst of the White Prophet Hoquin." And further she must say, "I give you back the name you gave me. I am Redda no longer but Wild-Eye, as Hoquin has made me." For he had named her thus for her one eye that always peered to one side."

Possibly this example of Hoquin and Wild-Eye is a one-off but if it was Fool who renamed Fitz "Changer", then maybe all WPs tended to change the names of their Catalysts? Will have to check into the rest to see if there are more instances.

It's also interesting to note that Wild-Eye had to deny her parents to then fully embark on her Catalyst role. Fitz did not have to do this because he did not have either parent in his life.