Emotions in the Elderling Realm (SPOILERS all books)

[Farseer]

We dream of carving our dragon."

I liked that ending, and then I read the Tawny Man trilogy and they never carved their dragon

Yet!

Actually, I think I mentioned in the Dragon Haven or Keeper thread, wherever my first ever thePlenty posts re Kelsingra are, that I believed the carving of dragons would stop with Verity. Fitz would never do it, based on the 'Wise Men' ditty. Verity was the last one who was made reference to within its words, as far as I could tell.

I think the stop/change has to do with Fitz coming along to balance out this possibly unnatural act of Elderlings/Skilled ones continuing on after death in such a state eg implanting their anmas into otherwise inanimate objects, and this includes liveships. I didn't go into this latter point in those posts but have planned to do so in other threads (it's on my thePlenty to-do list!).

Still, I loved that ending too and, at the time, could see a Fitz-carved dragon soaring in the skies (possibly joined with Fool and Nighteyes so they could remain 'as one'). I have far too many other theories to stick with just that one ending though!