Random questions about Liveships (spoilers Farseer, LST and TM)

[Nuytsia]

Hi Omie!

- What would happen if a Liveship that identified most strongly as one sex was given a figurehead carved in the likeness of the other? I'm picturing a beautiful busty creation in wizardwood talking in a deep grufty voice.

I think the points Farseer raised make sense on this one. I wonder if the gender isn't really set in stone until the carver decides? I got the impression that it was really more the memories of the humans (and dragon/s if applicable) that went into the ships, not their personalities?
(I may be wrong, dodgy memory alert!!! And I AM technically in the middle of re-reading the LST, but not up to the part featuring the LS's yet)

- Regarding wizardwood: could the contraceptive piercings introduced in the Liveship Traders series 'talk'? Because I can't think of a better mode of contraception than a person's belly button suddenly shouting 'Knock that off, you two!'

heheheheeheeeee

- How would a Liveship feel to one with the Wit sense? It might have said this somewhere in the books but I can't remember.

I can't remember any other references than the one Farseer mentioned. It makes sense that the Liveships would make those with the Wit uneasy, if they could sense the 'trapped' or latent dragon inside (if there is one, depending on the ship). I guess it would be kind of creepy!

As for liveships not being alive, the simulacra dragons in the Stone Garden were also not technically alive, and yet Fitz and Nighteyes sensed life within them via the Wit?

ok I'm off topic, but just wanted to mention I still can't get my head around this !

While Fitz did not experience the ‘bubble popping’ sensation of Fool’s death, it would most likely be due to having lost his Skill after eating the elfbark-laden cake. If his Skill had been ‘intact’ or functioning properly at the time, no doubt Fitz would have been fully aware of not only Fool’s death but also the torture that preceded it (in the same way that Fitz became aware of Amber’s difficulty when she fainted aboard Paragon). In a way, Fitz losing his Skill at that time proved to be somewhat of a blessing and it's hard to think that poor Paragon would had to have been witness to all that!

Hmmm I never really thought about that before! Do you think the Fool somehow had something to do with Fitz eating the cake?????? oh what a tangled web.....