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

[Farseer]

Gah, I have so many things I want to go back and respond to in this thread! This one, at least, I can offer without too much thought and time needed:

I know its going back a bit but re the 'broken' one. Do we know the overheard conversation was between Shrewd and Chade? Doesn't Fitz talk about it sounding like one person having a conversation with themselves? Could have been Shrewd arguing with himself or skilling to someone!

I would never be so bold as to ever say I 'know' anything about RH's characters or works...she's a trickster who could allude to all sorts of things that would then turn out to be the opposite of whatever it was she was leading me to or what I was suspecting! Still, I am as sure as I can be that it definitely was a conversation between Chade and Shrewd. Other than what I have posted already, there is this from Fool's Fate, which Fitz noted just prior to the Skill coterie healing him at Buckkeep (remembering he was just coming to so was unsure as to who was speaking as this point...he could only hear the voice):

'No!' I thought the voice was King Shrewd's. Then I knew it could not be. It must be Chade, sounding so like his brother.

Shrewd was long dead, and the passage later goes on to show that it was Chade talking, and not Shrewd.

Here Fitz demonstrates just how alike Shrewd and Chade's voices were (as they also were in the original passage which we are talking about) and seeing as he was also 'under the weather' during this and the original coversation, it is justifiable that his confusion mirrors itself each time.