Mythical Creatures/Folk (Spoilers ALL Books, including Words Like Coins)

[Farseer]

Could it also be (whatever form Eda/El/Sa takes) that Fitz and Dutiful actually have "touched" Eda/El/Sa during their experience on Others Island?

That is a fascinating thought! One thing though, IIRC one of the things s/he says to Fitz is; "the others would not even have noticed they'd attracked you". Something like that, anyway, I don't have the book with me at the moment.

So that'd indicate that s/he's part of a group or race, not a single entity. But then it wouldn't be the first time that seemingly more powerful beings were regarded as gods by humans, and as the contact got lost maybe it developed into the belief of two dual-gender entities.

I've thought this previously, and probably said it somewhere (maybe even in this thread!), but what of the Elders of the Skill River? At the end of TM, Fitz talks of Verity being in there somewhere etc. In this instance 'others' could simply be describing the entire group of Elders, which is most likely just another name for the Elderlings(??). Fitz also mentioned something about Elderlings being thought of as near-gods by humans (also toward the end of TM in a conversation with Fool, I think). I will come back and reference these but am dropping it all here before I forget again!

On a slight tangent...the word 'attract' in the quote above intrigues me. Attract how? Attract why? Why would the others not have noticed?