The Fool (spoilers for all RotE books, including LST)

[Omie]

Reading the Rain Wild Chronicles and I was struck with a sudden sense of unfairness as I thought of yet another Scene I Would Like To Read But Robin Hobb Will Probably Never Write.... a conversation between Mercor and the Fool. They're both share a history of mysterious foresight. Mercor/Maulkin is even both white and gold. And I think that Mercor would just be the most understanding of the debt of gratitude dragonkind owes the Fool. I suspect most of the others would see him as a glorified two-legs who ought to have been giddy with delight about the prospect of sacrificing himself in the salvation of a superior species. Not that I expected him to ever ask for thanks or even credit, but, well, it would still have been nice if he got it.

"The toy shops always lured Althea the strongest: there one could find dolls whose liquid eyes and soft warm skin mimicked that of a real infant..."

I was assuming the Fool's dolly was a relic from his childhood. Perhaps the Southlands is another place littered about with Elderling antiques.

The figurine of a baby that Etta retrieved from the Others Island was also described fairly similarly.