Jun-24-2011, 09:35 AM (UTC)
In a HUGE FRENZY to pack for another trip away, not to mention a gazillion other jobs, but, honestly, I think I could live on this computer and still not get all my thoughts down here! 
I mentioned something about Ravenlock somewhere in another thread (or at least meant to?!) and likened him to minstrels as well as WPs and Elderlings, due to the 'song' and 'rhyme' aspect as well as the rest (why am I also thinking of the Rooster Crown?!
). Very similar to Fool in this regard. I think I also mentioned that he was obviously Skilled as he had disappeared for such a long time without aging to others (like how Fitz was in the Skill-pillar for a whole month but thought only a short time had passed), no doubt by the same Skill-pillar used by Fitz and Dutiful?
It is a really insightful passage but begs more questions...especially when we have to wonder how it fits in with the Others. Fitz felt he didn't want to go on the path that Kennit had walked on. Kennit's charm had also prevented Kennit from walking upon it. Why? Was it magic from the Others (no doubt he would had to have come in contac with them if he was there on the island for fifty years) that gave Kaven Ravenlock his ability to speak the future? What connection, if any, did he have to SWR? She had been captured for many generations so was she already a prisoner there when Kaven was there also? What connection, if any, did he have to the fabled oracle of Others' Island? While he may have had fair hair and red eyes when he returned, didn't he have black hair and eyes when he went there (can't remember this last)?
Argh! I have so much to add/say on this, especially of something that is really niggling me about the Whites, the old race that White Prophets such as Pilkrop, the PW and Fool show traces or throw-backs of, and their possible relationship to Elderlings. I won't start now or I won't be able to stop!!!
Yes, I'm pretty sure that while Fool's eyes had looked like just the tiniest drop of blue had been added (Fitz noticed it when Fool first gave his 'Fitz fixes a feist's fits' prophecy), the PW's had been white/pale, right to the end. I can remember Fitz saying something of it around the time that she was begging him to kill her?
I have made mention of twelve in the 'What does the name Farseer really mean?' thread, but still thinking on it with regard to the fingernails (like it possibly representing a group, one nail per person or group, or something, rather than assigning one nail per digit?...I just don't know). Just as I think I start to clear up a point or two, I get distracted by another, and another, and then forget to come back!!
It's great that we can be here together trying to nut it out!
Hmm...we haven't taken the bird bones into consideration previously have we? Now, you've got me thinking Apricot! I guess I had just assumed that they were an added connection to dragons/Elderlings in the same way that Fitz and others liken dragons to birds eg I think Fitz said the dragon he saw at Kelsingra was bird-like?
As for size...hmmm...
So much more to add but no time!
Sorry if none of this makes any sense...gotta go!!
I mentioned something about Ravenlock somewhere in another thread (or at least meant to?!) and likened him to minstrels as well as WPs and Elderlings, due to the 'song' and 'rhyme' aspect as well as the rest (why am I also thinking of the Rooster Crown?!
). Very similar to Fool in this regard. I think I also mentioned that he was obviously Skilled as he had disappeared for such a long time without aging to others (like how Fitz was in the Skill-pillar for a whole month but thought only a short time had passed), no doubt by the same Skill-pillar used by Fitz and Dutiful? It is a really insightful passage but begs more questions...especially when we have to wonder how it fits in with the Others. Fitz felt he didn't want to go on the path that Kennit had walked on. Kennit's charm had also prevented Kennit from walking upon it. Why? Was it magic from the Others (no doubt he would had to have come in contac with them if he was there on the island for fifty years) that gave Kaven Ravenlock his ability to speak the future? What connection, if any, did he have to SWR? She had been captured for many generations so was she already a prisoner there when Kaven was there also? What connection, if any, did he have to the fabled oracle of Others' Island? While he may have had fair hair and red eyes when he returned, didn't he have black hair and eyes when he went there (can't remember this last)?
Argh! I have so much to add/say on this, especially of something that is really niggling me about the Whites, the old race that White Prophets such as Pilkrop, the PW and Fool show traces or throw-backs of, and their possible relationship to Elderlings. I won't start now or I won't be able to stop!!!
Yes, I'm pretty sure that while Fool's eyes had looked like just the tiniest drop of blue had been added (Fitz noticed it when Fool first gave his 'Fitz fixes a feist's fits' prophecy), the PW's had been white/pale, right to the end. I can remember Fitz saying something of it around the time that she was begging him to kill her?
I have made mention of twelve in the 'What does the name Farseer really mean?' thread, but still thinking on it with regard to the fingernails (like it possibly representing a group, one nail per person or group, or something, rather than assigning one nail per digit?...I just don't know). Just as I think I start to clear up a point or two, I get distracted by another, and another, and then forget to come back!!
It's great that we can be here together trying to nut it out!Hmm...we haven't taken the bird bones into consideration previously have we? Now, you've got me thinking Apricot! I guess I had just assumed that they were an added connection to dragons/Elderlings in the same way that Fitz and others liken dragons to birds eg I think Fitz said the dragon he saw at Kelsingra was bird-like?
As for size...hmmm...
So much more to add but no time!
Sorry if none of this makes any sense...gotta go!!
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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