Mythical Creatures/Folk (Spoilers ALL Books, including Words Like Coins)

[Farseer]

Pecksies again...sorry, as I know a few of you have most likely not read 'Words Like Coins' so I wonder if this theory is not better placed there...still, it does run on from other posts I've made here and also helps make connections between pecksies and other such mythical creatures?

Once a pecksie is bound by a human into a state of servitude, it absolutely MUST do whatever it is then asked by the human, no matter the cost to others or itself.

Just as the presence of silver on a pecksie and then its continued transferal of silver onto objects, as pecksie dust, screams Skill to me, I believe that this having to do as a human orders is a direct consequence of a Skill command. The fact that a pecksie has no choice but to follow a human's words through to whatever end, tells me that it is much more forceful than a mere Skill suggestion. I think I have mentioned earlier but there is no direct suggestion of pecksies having anything at all to do with the Skill in the actual text...it's just my theories so I may be way off the mark!

Usually the person or being sending a Skill suggestion or command (or glamour !) has a Skill-ability however, in the case of a pecksie, I wonder if the human is not Skilled but it is the pecksie itself who is so Skilled that such a use of words acts as an unbreakable Skill command to them from the human....a command that not even the pecksie can break?

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When both were finally able to separate themselves from the Skill River, and thus return to their bodies, it seemed to Fitz that someone else spoke to him (via a distance echo of thought that was arrowed tightly to him alone). That person said, "That was well done. But next time, be more careful, with yourself as well as with him."

What are your theories on WHO this 'someone' was?

There is no mention by Fitz of a 'foreign' presence or even a 'sizable' presence at that time so this would suggest that, rather than it being the same sort of connection as what he and Dutiful had previously experienced on Others Island etc, it was instead someone or something that Fitz could easily expect to be there within the Skill River eg a human.

Hmm...assuming they do have a significant ability in the Skill and, as they are known to have a connection with Skill pillars (re when a human comes back from a visit to the pillars in a rather unwell state, such as Fitz did, they are then considered to appear 'pecksie-nibbled'), could it actually be a pecksie and not a human who speaks to Fitz from within the Skill River? Though I ask the question, I too believe it was more likely to be someone who cared for Fitz and also Dutiful by a personal association eg family.