Jul-10-2011, 03:23 PM (UTC)
It is also possible, Farseer, that the Fool's prescience allowed him to see what would happen in the future before he got up to the Six Duchies. He would've known that the dragons would be stunted when he heard the date for them to come out of their cocoons, because their amount of development had nothing else to do with anybody's motives, intentions, or actions. By the time Selden arrived the date would have passed. This way the Fool didn't have to stick around in the Rain Wilds and wait for the dragons to emerge before coming up north and things could have happened even more quickly.
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