The Skill and The Wit (spoilers all RotE books)

[Farseer]

I can’t remember exactly (I don’t have the LST or RWC with me to find the related text) but I’m certain that it’s Tintaglia who mentions seeing stars at the bottom of the well that she and Fitz both came across in Kelsingra...remembering that it was from this well that the liquid Skill was raised up with the windlass and then consumed by the dragons. Though Fitz speaks of stars from the sky being reflected in the black water that flowed through the rift in the earth, the well was full with the liquid Skill when he saw it and so he was unable to see the stars within the well, as Tintaglia did.

I have found the Tintaglia-related passage in SOD, Chapter Eight, and it's a little different to what I thought as it seems she is seeing more the Skill River rather than true 'stars' as such. Still, stars are mentioned:

She snuffed the edge of the well, then peered into its depths. As she shifted her head, she thought she caught a distant shimmer of silver at the very bottom, but she could not be sure. Did not stars shine in daytime in the bottoms of the deepest wells? It may be no more than that...

Also this extra info from Selden on the Star Chamber from Chapter Twenty-Four in SOD. He is speaking to Jani and Keffria: "Compared to Cassarick, Frengong was humble....Cassarick is the city you will excavate for Tintaglia. There, you will find halls built to a dragon's scale of grandeur. In the Star Chamber, you will discover a floor set with what you call flame-jewels, in a mirror of the night sky on Springeve. There is a labyrinth with crystal walls, tuned to mirror the dreams of the ones who dare it; to walk its maze is to confront your own soul. Time's Rainbow, they called it among themselves, for each person who completed it seemed to do so by a different route. Wonders are buried there and may be brought back to light..."

Bring on The Star Chamber and Time's Rainbow/Time's Labyrinth!! It just HAS to be in the next installment because I think it is tied firmly to Fool's quest to take time out of its current course.

In Chapter Sixteen of AQ, this is what Kettle/Kestral has to say regarding the role of the WP when Fitz asks her, "So they work for the end of the world to come?"

"Not the end of the world, Tom. The end of time. To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done."

I LOVE THIS !

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To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all.

Freedom from slavery is a strong theme throughout the books so how perfect that the WP's role is to go that much further and free humanity from the slavery of time, as well as literal slavery etc ?!

I don't know about anyone else but I often find myself wishing for a time when I would not have to be imprisoned by life's and other people's many and varied schedules!