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

[Farseer]

My apologies for yet another back-to-back post! Just on Chivalry working closely with Chade, it mentions in Chapter Eight of AA, 'Lady Thyme' regarding Lady Thyme, "...she used to go along on a lot of Chivalry's trips...". This, to me, confirms that Chade and Chivalry worked closely on their art of diplomacy together in the roles of hand (Chade) and glove (Chivalry), as Chade had previously noted.

Fitz, looking very much like Chivalry and shown as such at Neatbay (as was noted by Verity), seemed to me to have been handed this role by Shrewd so as to fill in where Chivalry would otherwise have been - a role which he performed brilliantly in much the same way as Chivalry may have done as per my previous post regarding his actions with Lady Grace.

Prior to the trip, Fitz had asked Chade if Verity was aware of his true mission (to decide if Kelvar was innocent or guilty of treason and then mete out the King's Justice if required). To this Chade replied, "Verity is as good as his name. He could not sit at table with a man he was poisoning and conceal it." This suggests that Verity, due to his very nature, was never previously directly involved (though may have been aware sometimes) with Chade and Chivalry's style of diplomacy which was, of course, Shrewd's way of doing things. In this, Shrewd certainly had used Chivalry as he did Fitz. Verity's way is the soldier's way - straight-forward, direct and blunt. Court intrigue and diplomacy was never his way. Rather, it was Shrewd's and Verity himself verified this when he said of it, "Shrewd he is called and shrewd he is; I wonder what he expects to gain... That is his kind of kingship, and I leave it to him..."