Jul-29-2011, 10:52 AM (UTC)
(Mar-31-2010, 12:48 AM (UTC))Farseer Wrote: ...and I would expect that behind the closed doors, that he found when he went there, would be a great deal of left-behind Elderling records, possibly even in the form of memory stone cubes such as Prilkop used in the Out Island Elderling city, and also such as what Chade returned to Buckkeep with at the end of FF?
Stealing this old post of mine from the Dragon Haven thread as it fits here now (and then I selfishly don't have to think too hard about where to plonk this next post). I hope this is okay? Please tell me if not!
Besides the above evidence of memory stone cubes being used by Elderlings, we do have at least one other example that I'd thought of and can now reference. Reyn is on his way to find Malta within the Rooster Chamber and is thinking of how his father had eventually drowned in the memories of the city. It comes from TMS, Chapter Thirty-Seven, 'Death of the City':
Quote:His father had heard the music and worked the city anyway, until the day they found him sitting in the dark, surrounded by small cubes of black stone that he was stacking around him like a great babe.
On a totally different topic...I couldn't help but think of Fitz as 'Shadow' Wolf with all of the talk about shadows in Kelsingra.
There are so many other FANTASTIC trains of thought to follow in this thread that I hate to plonk and leave all Chivalry-like, but...
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."