Small, random questions about RotE that still bother you (spoilers all RotE books)

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Why aren't the OutIslands on the map?

Quick reply as I need at least an hour or two of some shut-eye...it's so hard keeping up with old posts, let alone new ones, especially when working on other 'stuff' in between...!

Yes, I agree with 'thul with regard to the laws on charts and maps. The Outislander laws are very firm with regard to their creating charts and maps.

I also have a little theory that the positioning of the islands could be somehow significant eg that they create some kind of pattern or shape when seen from above. I'm not sure why I think that but they are "The God Runes" after all, so, ah, I don't know ...I guess I'm thinking that El, or Eda, etc put them in some kind of special order? At the very least, they make me think of the Stone Game, with the islands being in strategic places rather than the stones.

It is also worthy to again note that Aslevjal was depicted as the most likely centre of the entire 'world', at least on the map within the Aslevjal map tower. This makes me wonder if there is some true connection to it and the gods...or was it like that as those in Aslevjal simply considered themselves the centre of the world (as we humans once believed we were the centre of the solar system?)...or was it merely to hint at the (unknown) lands to the north and to the very east of the map?

Beware, Farseer is on the path of randomness again...sorry...!

The former point within this post just popped into my head and I suddenly couldn't help but wonder if my theory regarding The God Runes as seen from above is not so far-fetched when one considers Alise's words regarding Kelsingra being set out like some strange kind of art. Ah, looking for the passage as reference for you...it is in DH at the beginning of Chapter Eleven, 'Revelations', though I will quote only the main gist of it:

I think I was a dragon in my dream. Because I saw the city, well, as if it were small and I were looking down on it...You know, in my dream, the city looked as if it had been planned to be seen from above. Like a strange form of art...

The plot thickens...

I have so many other 'random' things to prattle about. Hmm. It's 10:25pm. To sleep or not to sleep?!

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I don't know if this has been talked about before (time gets in the way of post-trawling, alas) but when Amber is re-carving Paragon's face, there is a moment when she is running her hands around it glove-less and hence the skill imprint is 'active' as it were. So, now I'm wondering if the skill from Amber's hand has had any effect on Paragon? Would he have felt or known about fool's torture and death and would he have any awareness at all of Fitz?

Crikey, I have so many posts I have overlooked somehow! I check them as often as I can as mod but then never seem to get back into them or the nitty-gritty of throwing myself into the fray...

Just quickly, and I will try to find the post where I have chatted about this somewhere, but I do know that Paragon had seen and come to know of Fitz, and also Amber's love for him, through his contact with Amber. He even went on to ackowledge that Fitz made up a part of him. Possibly it would be far easier for me to find a reference from the text rather than sift through posts. *goes off to flick through some pages!*

Okay, have finally found the passage I was thinking of in SoD, a couple of pages into Chapter Thirty, 'Convergence' - this from Paragon to Amber:

'You loved him didn't you?' ...Sometimes, when she worked on his face, he could feel her affection for the countenance she carved...She would not speak of him, but sometimes in the brushing touch of her fingers, he glimpsed the man she saw in his mind.
'Now I am layer upon layer upon layer,' he observed as he held her up to the railing. 'Dragon and dragon, under Paragon Ludluck, under...whoever this is. Will you give me his name also?'

As has been said though, Paragon and Amber did both respect each other and kept from prying during contact, much the same as happened with Fitz and Fool etc...

Yes, Paragon had a good idea of whom Amber was thinking of when creating his new countenance, but I still wonder if the 'skill touch' left Paragon with a much deeper awareness of Fitz and perhaps more importantly, fool. By that, I mean experiencing, to some degree the various traumatic events that fool and Fitz went through later on. These thoughts have plagued my mind ever since finishing LST!