SPOILERS FARSEER/TAWNY MAN BOOKS - Moonseye

[Nuytsia]

I just re-read that bit where Fitz encounters the old man at Moonseye and somehow I remember this thread!
My impression from reading the scene is that it isn't Fitz's grandfather. To me, he just didn't react as I would expect his grandfather to react. No matter how much he resented Chivalry getting his daughter pregnant, surely he wouldn't hate the child that much? It's not his fault?
The old man seemed mainly just uncaring of Fitz..... and possibly disgusted by Fitz being the 'Wit Bastard' or whatever they called him.
I guess it's possible, but it just didn't feel right to me that it was meant to be him.
I certainly got that the guy didn't think much of Chivalry. I think that might have been because of something mentioned later - that Chivalry was the one that stopped the Moonseye guards taking bribes off the smugglers. The guy seems to resent Chivalry's strict ways with the men, when it turned out he wasn't so perfect himself.
There's no proof that's why he doesn't like Chivalry, but I think it would be one plausible reason (and it's mentioned around the same time in the book, so that I noticed it).

****SORRY, SPOILERS FROM THE TAWNY MAN BOOKS ALSO!!!*****
In AA, and a few other places, Fitz outlines the events leading up to his grandfather leaving him at the military outpost at Moonseye. It was from here that Fitz begins his memories. He says, "Before that, there is nothing,...Prior to that day at Moonseye, there is nothing. But on that day they suddenly begin, with a brightness and detail that overwhelms me."
So, Fitz obviously remembers his grandfather but the actual details are sketchy...he was tall and old with a huge, rough (calloused) grip that was warm and firm but not unkind.
Later in AQ, when Fitz is holed up in the jail in Moonseye (before he is freed by Nighteyes, Kettle and Starling), he is supervised by an old man who knew his identity and knew his father, Chivalry. Looking startled at Fitz when he took him a meal, the old man said, "You've your father's voice as well as his eyes."
Could this old man have actually been Fitz's grandfather?
Points in favour of this theory could include that the old man seemed to have a particular, personal dislike for Chivalry. In reply to Fitz saying that he had never known Chivalry, the old man said," Count your blessings, then. Knowing the prince was not the same as liking him. Stiff as a stick he was. Rules and orders for us, while he was out making bastards. Yes, I knew your father. I knew him too well for my comfort." From this, I believe that his anger stems from the fact that it was HIS daughter, Fitz's mother, who Chivalry was with...it seems more of a personal anger than that which would normally be directed?

Another point is that, while it does say at times (particularly in FF when he is given back his memories by the Fool) that his family lived on farming land and were farmers, it also does say that Fitz's grandfather was a Buckkeep guard who had been stationed at Mooneye prior to marrying a mountain woman.

The only point I can see that the old man may NOT have been his grandfather is that Fitz seemed to remember him well from when he was six and taken to Moonseye in AA and so, surely, would have remembered the old man again in AQ. Or, could it have been that Fitz simply no longer remembered, much as what happened when he couldn't recall the name 'Keppet' or either of the two mountain women (his mother and obviously his grandmother) who fought together in the markets at Buckkeep Town?

Fitz's grandfather or not? What do you think? To me, it seems a sneaky little thing that RH would slip in with little else for us to go on!!