Others' Island (spoilers all books incl RWC)

[Farseer]

I apologize for not going through ALL 11 pages of posts here

Can't say that I blame you ...I find it very difficult to recall things I've written so find I must go back over things at times and it's never easy to go back over it all. Actually, I just can't most days as I'd never find time to live life if I did! One day I decided I was going to start printing out threads I really wanted to get stuck into instead but once I'd done the first one, there was no way I was going to continue... !

I'm sorry I haven't found the Wintrow and Skill 'stuff' yet. It's a subject I really like talking about. Will not leave this seat until I do find it this time! I tend to sprawl my comments over too many threads and thus never have the full telling of my thoughts exactly where it should be!

I was just sitting on the couch reading Fool's Fate

I am suitably impressed that you have progressed so quickly through your re-read! I am still stuck on the Skill Road in AQ, and have been there for the last year it seems..!

(Since there's a spoiler tag for ALL books in the thread title, and we've already been discussing the books without spoiler tags, I'm just gonna go right for it.)

Go right ahead whenever you see 'all' or 'RotE' ... ... you will notice that once a thread gets started, we often have to later amend the spoiler tag to include all books as discussion usually gravitates to events from another series.

That being: Others are deformed dragons who have taken on too much 'essence' of humans.

I.. I'm just so shocked to the core that tiny paragraph never sunk in before. I'm sure you remember it, Farseer..

I do remember it very well , and it is one of my favourite passsages in the books as it explains much of what goes on between characters. Not only with the Elderlings and Others (or rather 'Abominations' in the minds of the dragons due to the human element within them) does this apply but also to other relationships eg both humans and animals linked via a Wit-bond, such as Fitz taking on wolf characteristics and Nighteyes those of a man, or even Fool himself who is often surprised at his humanity after his connection with Fitz (and sometimes I have wondered if some of the Farseer in Fitz is not as much a result of his own connection with Fool's seeing ability as a White Prophet as his own Elderling or founder-of-the-House-of-Farseer heritage). Even something as small as Fitz taking on many of Burrich's mannerisms and sayings while young, or Kennit taking on aspects of Igrot's etc is still evidence of transferral due to close proximity. While these are not so much the physical changes as happens with Others and Elderlings, the rose illustration still explains much for them also.

I love re-reads, and I have loved sharing your WOW moment with you, Valarya! Now you'll have to go back and re-read LST so you can view the Others etc from this new perspective! Ah, the RotE books never get old...