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

[Farseer]

It's interesting to note that Bingtowners have a naming day where "naming-day presents" are given. I found this in Chapter Twenty-Six of SOM, 'Gifts', where Malta finds the dream-box in Keffria's 'secret' cupboard.

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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.

Just thinking on this and, by extension, Fitz often had to deny/walk away from a number of significant people in his life so he could remain unencumbered whilst fulfilling his role as Catalyst eg Molly, Burrich, Nettle etc. While he would never have considered it from this perspective (rather thinking that it was something he had chosen to do), he was obviously fated to leave them behind.

At the beginning of AQ, Fitz himself noted that Burrich was a final link to be severed - "Tomorrow Burrich would leave and I would be free. Free to follow my heart's desire, with no intervention from anyone" - and although he thought he was undertaking this severing to pursue selfish gain (to kill Regal), this severing had to take place for him to finally make his way to Verity and ensure an heir to the throne etc.