Feb-09-2012, 08:47 AM (UTC)
Sorry, in a bit of a rush so the tense is all over the place etc.
So...the end of AQ...here's what I'll call PART ONE as I doubt I'll be able to post it all at the one time. I'll be back soon to copy and paste the rest....just have to cook my family and the men some dinner!!
Feel free to correct me as I could have written anything in here! 
PART ONE
No, Fitz didn't die then. He died toward the end of Royal Assassin and then spent the early parts of Assassin's Quest separating himself from Nighteyes and returning fully to his human form. Of course, it was only Verity, Chade, Burrich and Nighteyes who were aware that Fitz still lived. All others believed him dead after time in Regal’s dungeon.
Once he came back to himself, he argued with both Burrich and Chade who then left him alone to fend for himself in the hut that he had formerly shared with Burrich and Nighteyes. While there alone, Fitz decided to leave and kill Regal but was attacked by Forged Ones, one of whom steals and wears his shirt that bears his pin from King Shrewd. Later, after Fitz flees the area and heads to Tradeford to kill Regal, Burrich finds this Forged One dead at the hut and, upon recognising the shirt and pin, believes the body belongs to Fitz. He mourns Fitz as dead and takes this information back to Chade. He also takes the pin and gives it to Molly who he has been caring for, unknown to Fitz.
When he and Nighteyes reached Tradeford, Fitz attempted to kill Regal but he was unsuccessful. At one point while he there, he was surrounded in a room by guards and Will etc but scored his arm with what he believed was a knife that still held poison on its blade. After that, Verity blasted all in the room with the Skill, allowing Fitz to escape, and also imprinted a Skill command on Fitz to “Come to me”. Fitz had to obey the Skill command and so made his way immediately to the Mountain Kingdom, just as Verity had on his quest to find the Elderlings.
Fitz met Starling along the way and then also Kettle, who was travelling with the Pilgrims making their way to the Mountain Kingdom to seek the White Prophet etc. While making a river crossing, Fitz and Nighteyes are attacked. Nighteyes escapes badly injured (thrown into the water) but Fitz is taken captive. While in prison at Moonseye, Starling and Kettle help Fitz to escape and much of the town is destroyed. Not long after his escape, Fitz and Nighteyes separate themselves from Starling and Kettle to prevent Regal’s guards from tracking them.
Later Fitz realises that a Witted One has been used by Regal to track him and, after receiving an arrow in his back, he stumbles his way into Jhampe where he comes across the Fool (who does not recognise Fitz immediately).
Over time he is reunited with everyone again and learns that Verity and Kettricken’s child has died and thus his and Molly’s child, Nettle, will have to inherit the Farseer throne. Kettricken and Chade wish to accomplish this by pretending that Nettle is Verity and Kettricken’s child. Fitz is upset and vows that not only his Verity alive but that he will find him (which he must do as the “Come to me” Skill command is still strong within him).
During this time, the arrow is taken out, Fitz heals and he, Kettricken, Kettle, Fool, Starling and Nighteyes make their way up the Skill Road to seek Verity.
Along the way, Fitz visits a city via a Skill pillar and it was there that he was able to draw a map that would lead him to Verity. Verity had previously visited the same city and had also drawn a map. In this visit, Fitz fulfilled a part of the prophecy as written by White Damir - “Come the Catalyst, to make stone of flesh and flesh of stone. At his touch shall be wakened the dragons of the earth. The sleeping city shall tremble and waken to him. Comes the Catalyst.” Starling also reveals her belief that Fool is a woman who is in love with Fitz.
Further on their journey they encounter a plaza where Fitz and Fool are joined by the Skill and together witness the announcing of the flight of Realder’s Dragon. It is here that Fitz sees Fool as a woman with golden hair, wearing the Rooster Crown. Fool collapses after that and then awakens reinvigorated, believing that he and Fitz were not only when they must be and where they must be but also who they must be.
As they continue making their way to Verity, they come across the Stone Garden filled with stone dragons (simulacra). Fool recalls one, Realder, from his dream and Fitz and Nighteyes feel him with the Wit.
Past the Stone Garden, the party come across a quarry where, after first coming across Girl-on-a-Dragon mired in stone, they eventually find Verity carving his own dragon. Here Kettle reveals her true identity (that she was actually Kestrel, a member of a past coterie but had the Skill burned out of her and was banished from the Six Duchies after killing her twin sister, Gull, with the Skill). Linked together, Fitz, Fool and Nighteyes unlock her Skill, by allowing her to forgive herself for her murderous act, so she then assists Verity in the carving of his dragon as Verity cannot complete the task alone.
At some stage here, Verity takes Kettle to the Skill River where she lathes her arms silver with the Skill, just as Verity had done (as we witnessed via a previous Skill link/dream with Fitz). Fitz, on the other hand, does as Verity asks and returns to the Stone Garden to attempt to rouse the simulacra. He believes he’s unsuccessful but Verity confirms that he did, indeed, rouse one.
PART TWO coming...
So...the end of AQ...here's what I'll call PART ONE as I doubt I'll be able to post it all at the one time. I'll be back soon to copy and paste the rest....just have to cook my family and the men some dinner!!
Feel free to correct me as I could have written anything in here! PART ONE
No, Fitz didn't die then. He died toward the end of Royal Assassin and then spent the early parts of Assassin's Quest separating himself from Nighteyes and returning fully to his human form. Of course, it was only Verity, Chade, Burrich and Nighteyes who were aware that Fitz still lived. All others believed him dead after time in Regal’s dungeon.
Once he came back to himself, he argued with both Burrich and Chade who then left him alone to fend for himself in the hut that he had formerly shared with Burrich and Nighteyes. While there alone, Fitz decided to leave and kill Regal but was attacked by Forged Ones, one of whom steals and wears his shirt that bears his pin from King Shrewd. Later, after Fitz flees the area and heads to Tradeford to kill Regal, Burrich finds this Forged One dead at the hut and, upon recognising the shirt and pin, believes the body belongs to Fitz. He mourns Fitz as dead and takes this information back to Chade. He also takes the pin and gives it to Molly who he has been caring for, unknown to Fitz.
When he and Nighteyes reached Tradeford, Fitz attempted to kill Regal but he was unsuccessful. At one point while he there, he was surrounded in a room by guards and Will etc but scored his arm with what he believed was a knife that still held poison on its blade. After that, Verity blasted all in the room with the Skill, allowing Fitz to escape, and also imprinted a Skill command on Fitz to “Come to me”. Fitz had to obey the Skill command and so made his way immediately to the Mountain Kingdom, just as Verity had on his quest to find the Elderlings.
Fitz met Starling along the way and then also Kettle, who was travelling with the Pilgrims making their way to the Mountain Kingdom to seek the White Prophet etc. While making a river crossing, Fitz and Nighteyes are attacked. Nighteyes escapes badly injured (thrown into the water) but Fitz is taken captive. While in prison at Moonseye, Starling and Kettle help Fitz to escape and much of the town is destroyed. Not long after his escape, Fitz and Nighteyes separate themselves from Starling and Kettle to prevent Regal’s guards from tracking them.
Later Fitz realises that a Witted One has been used by Regal to track him and, after receiving an arrow in his back, he stumbles his way into Jhampe where he comes across the Fool (who does not recognise Fitz immediately).
Over time he is reunited with everyone again and learns that Verity and Kettricken’s child has died and thus his and Molly’s child, Nettle, will have to inherit the Farseer throne. Kettricken and Chade wish to accomplish this by pretending that Nettle is Verity and Kettricken’s child. Fitz is upset and vows that not only his Verity alive but that he will find him (which he must do as the “Come to me” Skill command is still strong within him).
During this time, the arrow is taken out, Fitz heals and he, Kettricken, Kettle, Fool, Starling and Nighteyes make their way up the Skill Road to seek Verity.
Along the way, Fitz visits a city via a Skill pillar and it was there that he was able to draw a map that would lead him to Verity. Verity had previously visited the same city and had also drawn a map. In this visit, Fitz fulfilled a part of the prophecy as written by White Damir - “Come the Catalyst, to make stone of flesh and flesh of stone. At his touch shall be wakened the dragons of the earth. The sleeping city shall tremble and waken to him. Comes the Catalyst.” Starling also reveals her belief that Fool is a woman who is in love with Fitz.
Further on their journey they encounter a plaza where Fitz and Fool are joined by the Skill and together witness the announcing of the flight of Realder’s Dragon. It is here that Fitz sees Fool as a woman with golden hair, wearing the Rooster Crown. Fool collapses after that and then awakens reinvigorated, believing that he and Fitz were not only when they must be and where they must be but also who they must be.
As they continue making their way to Verity, they come across the Stone Garden filled with stone dragons (simulacra). Fool recalls one, Realder, from his dream and Fitz and Nighteyes feel him with the Wit.
Past the Stone Garden, the party come across a quarry where, after first coming across Girl-on-a-Dragon mired in stone, they eventually find Verity carving his own dragon. Here Kettle reveals her true identity (that she was actually Kestrel, a member of a past coterie but had the Skill burned out of her and was banished from the Six Duchies after killing her twin sister, Gull, with the Skill). Linked together, Fitz, Fool and Nighteyes unlock her Skill, by allowing her to forgive herself for her murderous act, so she then assists Verity in the carving of his dragon as Verity cannot complete the task alone.
At some stage here, Verity takes Kettle to the Skill River where she lathes her arms silver with the Skill, just as Verity had done (as we witnessed via a previous Skill link/dream with Fitz). Fitz, on the other hand, does as Verity asks and returns to the Stone Garden to attempt to rouse the simulacra. He believes he’s unsuccessful but Verity confirms that he did, indeed, rouse one.
PART TWO coming...
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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