The ending doesn't make sense? Spoilers Farseer & Tawny Man

[Farseer]

^ True...better three hundred useful words than three thousand useless ones!

I had planned to return earlier but life really does have an annoying way of getting in the road of good intentions.

So, here's PART TWO, and there's a higher likelihood that there will be something amiss herein than there was in the first part:

At one point, while assisting Verity with the grooming of himself, Fool gets some of Verity’s silver Skill on three of his fingers. Thereafter he describes them as being “sensitive”, is able to know details of whatever he touches (eg know the history a spoon, who made it, where it came from etc, and the same for the bandage that covered his fingers) and he is able to work stone and other materials such as wood. He is drawn to Girl-on-a-Dragon and so feels compelled to often use his Skill-imbued fingers to carve and release her from her mired state.

Verity and Kettle put all they have into the dragon but it’s not enough. Verity asks for Fitz’ life (as Fitz had offered it earlier to Verity in lieu of his daughter’s as he did not want her life made forfeit to the Farseer throne) and, believing he is going to die, Fitz begs Verity to allow him to see Molly via the Skill one last time. It is then that Fitz witnesses the love that blossoms between Molly and Burrich (both of whom believe him dead) and his heart is broken. Verity and Fitz then swap bodies as Verity believes that all he needs is a night of youthful passion to provide the emotions/memories needed to finally complete his dragon. Verity makes love to Kettricken and she conceives a child – Verity knows this via his Skill.

Meanwhile, in Verity’s body with its Skill-imbued arms and hands, Fitz helps Fool finish off Girl-on-a-Dragon by offloading many of his bad feelings etc into her (of Molly, his mother, his time within Regal’s dungeons etc) but still what he places within her is not enough for her to rise or ‘quicken’. I’ve just had a thought but that thought’s for another thread!! It is during this off-loading that Fitz discovers the story behind Salt, the girl within G-o-a-D and how she had chosen to keep herself separate from the dragon aspect during the carving process.

In the meantime, Verity and Kettle complete their carving, go into the dragon and the dragon (Verity-as-Dragon) quickens. With Kettricken and Starling climbing on his back, Verity-as-Dragon flies off to Buckkeep where he offloads both ladies before ‘Lady’ Patience then demands that he rid her harbour of the Red Ships and Raiders. Thus began “the Cleansing of Buck” and the end of the Red Ships War.

Meanwhile, back in the memory stone quarry, Girl-on-a-Dragon is completed and quickened after Fool bleeds onto her and Burl, a member of Galen’s coterie (who was serving Regal alongside Will and the other new members of the coteries that Regal himself had created), bleeds and dies against her following an attack from Nighteyes. G-o-a-D then flies with Fool seated behind her (he had previously fled up there to escape Burl) and together they begin hunting Regal’s troops within the vicinity of the quarry.

Regal uses Will as a Skill puppet during a confrontation with Fitz but then, with blood and the Wit (initially Skill strength fed as Wit), Fitz and Nighteyes wake the ‘sleeping’ simulacra, starting with Realder. Each of them then follows Fool and G-o-a-D in flight to Buckkeep to assist Verity-as-Dragon. Verity-as-Dragon has cleansed Buck by the time they all reach him there much later and so they, and Verity-as-Dragon, make their way northward through Bearns and the Near Islands (Fool and G-o-a-D venture down to the coasts of Rippon and Shoaks) and then on to the Out Islands. It is while this cleansing takes place that blocks of huge memory stone are discovered aboard a White Ship which has been captured (two had been sunk), and it is realised that the blocks contain the anmas/lives/feelings etc of those who had been Forged by the Raiders. It had been the intention of the Outislanders, led by one Kebal Rawbread, to create a dragon of their own to do to the Six Duchies what had been done to them during the time of King Wisdom.

Again back in the quarry, Fitz comes across Will who is almost near death. Using the Skill, Fitz finds a pathway into Regal’s mind through Regal and Will’s Skill connection and, rather than killing Regal as he’d always planned, he imbeds a Skill command in him that ensures his fanatical loyalty to Kettricken and the future Farseer heir (mirroring the Skill imprint that had long ago been placed on Galen). This causes Regal to tear down the King’s Circle and replace it with the Queen’s Gardens, recall troops from the Mountain Kingdom, give Patience back the rubies Chivalry had given her and return himself, stock, goods and Skill scrolls/books etc back to Buckkeep. Not long after that, Regal is found dead, killed in his bed by some creature that was reputed to have been a large river rat but was, in fact, Small Ferret exacting his revenge (we earlier learned of his intentions to kill Regal in such a way when he had once warned Fitz and saved him from capture).

After all of this, Fitz and Nighteyes decide not return to Buck and, as such (as the ‘thul beings said), all who had known him before believe him truly dead except for Kettricken, Chade, Starling and, of course, Fool. For all intents and purposes, FitzChivalry Farseer is dead but Fitz himself remains alive, having permanently taken on the name that Patience had long ago given him, ‘Tom’, and using ‘Badgerlock’ (for the white streak in his hair) as his surname.

Once they leave the quarry, he and Nighteyes spend a year or so in the Mountains and then a similar amount of time again with Black Rolf (learning the Wit) before journeying to places such as the Near Islands, Chalced, Bingtown and even part-way up the Rain River. Finally they return to Buck and settle in a hut not far from where Forge was once situated.

In the end, Fitz shares with us that Starling had brought him a boy, Hap, whom he adopted and who now lived with him and Nighteyes in the hut. He was constantly unsettled by the Skill, Regal’s coteries had all been disbanded because there was no Skillmaster for them, Patience had moved from Buckkeep to Tradeford, Kettricken had given birth to a son (Prince Dutiful), Chade had gone from operating within the walls to being Kettricken’s adviser and Molly and Burrich were happy with Fitz and Molly’s daughter, Nettle, and their own son whom they had named Chivalry…as well as having another baby on the way. Fitz had not seen Fool for many years and he missed him, and he and Nighteyes dreamed of carving their dragon.

I think that's about it...feel free to tell me otherwise!