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

[Farseer]

Why do animals avoid the Skill Road in the mountains?

Sorry, I'm still trying to sift through your other post! I'm pretty sure we were chatting about this in the Elderlings Creations thread? Though it could have been my question about why did they avoid the memory stone of the road and at Kelsingra and not the simulacra in the Stone Garden...I will check and get back!

Just a thought...

Possibly this other thing contributed to Fitz not doing too well while he was on it the first time? While he would have been affected by the Skill, as suggested by Kettle, and as we witnessed at the inn in Buck (when he and Fool were going after Dutiful) etc, possibly he experienced a little of the repulsion as felt by Nighteyes and the majority of other animals and life (there was also no life growing on the Skill Road, not just animals...just as there was no life growing near the path on Others' Island, though I brought that up in that EC thread or the OI thread too ). If this is the case, Fitz would have experienced this extra force via his Wit magic, possibly making it a double whammy for him as he tread upon the road, and not just the Skill?

I'm pretty sure that Tintaglia even noted when she visited Kelsingra that 'nature will always win' or something along those lines. I know Nighteyes also mentioned something about the magic of the road constantly seeking to break out and be free from its containment...

I have much more to add on that and the relationship between the two but I have to actually sit down one day and write it all out carefully before I post it (it may take me so long that RH will have exposed all of her secrets by then...time is ticking on our ability to offer theories!!).