Random lightbulbs that went off over my head while re-reading Liveships (spoilers!)

[Farseer]

and the long period of time - when it says 'half a hundred years and returned as if but a day had passed for him' I just thought well he hadn't aged (like a WP)

I just love this site and being able to hear everyone's different takes on things. Though I still think it's associated with the properties of the pillar, I hadn't even thought of the passing of time as just 'not having aged' or aged slowly...! I am going to have to think on that some as that could be a very important link to a few other things!!!

Farseer which book tells of the Fool coming from the vicinity of Others Island?
(*hopes it's one I have!*)

It's in AA, right at the beginning of Chapter Nine, Fat Suffices, though there may be others. I think there is truth in both 'legends' but that's for the Fool thread! Anything we discussed about that or any other F/TM stuff would need to be spoiler tagged.

Besides the obvious 'riddle' aspects of that passage, what's intriguing is the mention of sharkskin. There are other shark references throughout the various books but I find it interesting that, throughout all of the adventures we share in the LST, none of the serpents or any of the humans see or have a confrontation with a shark. It just goes to prove that while we get to see events as they happen, there are other 'peripheral' elements (obviously not overly important to the storyline and therefore we are not alerted to their full presence?) that tangle in with all the main ones that we are told!

Of course it could just mean that sharks don't inhabit the waters where serpents reign and therefore it (the sharkskin object) was created somewhere else far, far away....