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

[Farseer]

Yes, I agree with Rendezvous that Patience was an important part of it, as well as my other thoughts in follow-up post #18 in this thread (midway down page) ... a part of which is here:

Chade admitted to Fitz later that Chivalry could never do right in Shrewd's eyes once he had chosen to court Patience.

Chivalry's relationship with Patience was obviously cause for a huge (and lasting) divide between he and Shrewd, and this was confirmed for us when Fitz sought Molly's hand by asking Shrewd's permission (which was also when Shrewd got angry and mistakenly named Fitz as "Chivalry", giving us a firm hint of the angst that had gone on between the two regarding the subject).

I will have to dwell on it all some more though, and will keep it in mind as I continue through AA again. Have you finished your re-reads yet Mervi? Were you going back through all books or just those in the Farseer trilogy?

Just on that, is there any evidence to back up the possibility that the room Fitz inhabited as a youth in Buckkeep was in fact Chivalry's old room? When Brant first took him there he stated clearly that it hadn't "been used for some time" (possibly even since Chivalry had been rooming in with Patience and so would have progressed to another room?). While it was a fairly humble room while inhabited by Fitz, it could have been fit for a King-in-Waiting with the addition of rich linens and tapestries etc? Verity, Shrewd and Regal's rooms are often mentioned (I think Dutiful was later given Regal's room?) but I can't recall anything being mentioned about a room for Chivalry. Of course everything of his would later have been taken to Withywoods but if he and Chade shared a close, working relationship, there is a possibility that Chivalry used that as a room to sleep in once? Of course, they could have done without that arrangement as they could always have simply reached each other via the access door in Verity's tower room (which may have been shared with Chivalry before he abdicated?).

More to add but I can slip that into another thread to save this one from a thrashing !!