Mar-17-2016, 05:35 AM (UTC)
(Sep-24-2015, 04:50 PM (UTC))destiny477 Wrote: I think that the Farseers are descended from silver workers and healers. They have also been using the skill and wit through the years. I think skill and wit where at one point the same magic or that skill was from the silver and wit a natural magic and the Farseers separated them. The use of skill through the years and the bloodline they carry give them much more natural ability. The current elderlings are descended from immigrants of Jamaillia, and thus do not have natural abilities that we see in the Six Duchies. Dragon-magic is simply Skill/Silver and the abilities that dragons and elderlings developed from it. It was established in the Rain Wild books that dragons would revert to a different sort of being without Silver.
Hi there! I used to be a member of this forum a long while back but haven't had time since. After recently re-reading all the books I felt like joining a discussion about them again.
I have this theory that a lot of people in that world have the talent for the Skill, but only the Six Duchies folk have ever recognised it as a magic that can be used and nurtured. I think that everyone who can hear the dragons has some measure of the ability to Skill in them, but they just don't recognise it as such.
That is another reason why I found the end of Fool's Quest so mind-blowing. Now that Fitz is there (and will hopefully recover enough to talk to people later on), will he notice these people could Skill if they wanted to? Will he point this out to them and share the jealously guarded Farseer knowledge?
Or will he cringe and doubt inside and not share what he knows like he does so infuriatingly frequently in his life?!!