SPOILERS FARSEER/TAWNY MAN BOOKS - Moonseye

[Farseer]

Of course!! Now there's a tiny detail I hadn't thought to pick up on at all, even with my 'giant' theories!

In the face of such a thought, I'd like to cease this 'obsessing about doors thing' that I have going on BUT it itches and I therefore have to scratch.

Hmm. Mooneye's age. I think Moonseye was used as an important military outpost prior to the treaty and opening of trade relations but, other than that, I can't recall that we were given too much of its history to suggest that it could have been around in the time of the Elderlings (other than my pulling at straws with the doors business!). I'd suspect that, at the very least, the building that Fitz entered with the large doors would have been there as part of the old outpost. Some other buildings may have also been there but possibly the majority of other homes/buildings etc could have been built later, in line with population growths due to the increased trade over time?

As for the possibility of the building having stood back in the time of the Elderlings and prior to the Cataclysm... *thinking, thinking* Okay, what about *Dragon Haven spoiler*

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the shepherd's hut that Alise and Leftrin moved into? It is situated on the opposite side of the river from Kelsingra. It is still intact, and sounds quite humbly made as possibly befits a working human of those times, living beside the grand city that accommodates Elderlings and dragons, as well as humans? The hut sits near/within the site of a town that still shows a hundred/or hundreds (?) of foundations as well as some buildings that still stand erect. I think the other keepers also slept in some of these old dwellings.

I would expect that all of these still-standing buildings have stood the test of time since prior to the Cataclysm, and not been built since? It's difficult to say what standard the others were in but I remember Leftrin and Alise's hut was in quite good condition, despite the wooden door no longer being there?

If these buildings still stand after so long, could Moonseye also have been built in those days and still be standing/functional, particularly as Moonseye is relatively out of the way and therefore unlikely to have sustained too much of the damage that was caused by the Cataclysm? It would also have been lived in and maintained over the years by the soldiers etc who have been posted there.