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

[Nuytsia]

related to the body switch near end of tawny man, it is...

Umm ...... can you elaborate on that?

Why do animals avoid the Skill Road in the mountains?

Sorry, I'm still trying to sift through your other post!

Hehehe sorry I'll try to slow down the barrage of questions!

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!

Oh! Hmm I'll check it out too. My memory is dreadful!
EDIT: I couldn't see anything specific about animals, but there was discussion of why plants grow on the stone garden animals but not on the Skill road etc.

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?

Ahhh I hadn't really thought of that, I just assumed it was because he was susceptible to the Skill (by nature) but not very well trained in all the things he needed to know (like avoiding being affected by the Skill road). Then again, I think Kettle does say some 'don't make it' all the way along the road to carve their dragons..... so it must be that even the trained can be badly affected.
EDIT: Kettle actually states "If one were strong enough in the Skill, one could survive the trip up this road. But if she were not,she perished.”

My question is why did the makers of the Skill road make such a dangerous thing??? Some sort of test for those who would carve dragons? Why?
Or maybe just a side effect of the makers wanting the road to remain free of growing and dead plant material? (which is by no means proven?)

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!!).

I doubt all the secrets will ever be revealed! Long live mystery!