Feb-27-2009, 06:12 PM (UTC)
(Feb-26-2009, 10:19 PM (UTC))taloshield Wrote: I do not belive the white Prophets are hermaphrodites. I can not recall which book it was said in, I assume it was in the Tawny Man Trilogy, but one of the chapters opened with facts on the histroy of the White Prophets. It said that when they were alive, and their race was comming to an end, a Female left their land and traveled the world. She became pregant by 6 different men, and gave birth to 3 girls and 3 boys, thus ensuring that the White Prophets blood would be intermingled with those of the world. So anytime that two distant offspring of hers came together, their children would become the next White Prophet.Nothing that you mention is incompatible with white prophets being sequentially hermaphrodite. A sequential hermaphrodite changes sex from male to male to female but is always either male or female at any given time. Just because the Pale Woman was female when Fitz saw her does not mean that she had always been that way. The Fool may have been female while in the guise of Amber and male again by the time of his reunion with Fitz.
Also, the Pale Women was Female, because Fitz saw her nude body. And the Black Man was male. And the Fool said he was male when he was desribing to Fitz that he loved him, but that did not mean he wanted to bed with him.