Jun-02-2009, 09:08 AM (UTC)
Okay if im not mistaken in the book mad ship from the liveship trader trilogy you see somone observing amber down at the docks and whats written is that theres something strangely masculine about her features. And also the Fitzchivalry creates the fools body from scratch and there is no indication of him noticing him being a female but rather a being which is much different then a human. And last the fool clearly explains his relationship that as the same of nighteyes to fitzchivalry which in my opinion rules out physical relationship but explains the whole idea behind beloved just like fitzchivalry loved nighteyes. That is I believe ample evidence that male/female was never the question here and to answer the problem of the white prophet being the opposite sex I do not believe all the white prophets where actors such as the fool and it never states anywhere that they were on the contrary you see that the white lady doesnt need to do that because she was able to amass power giving her enough influence as to do what she pleased as opposed to the fool who needed to be subtle to accomplish what he wanted and that is why he specifically has this lingering question of male or female in the first place for white prophets and he was the only one who needed to play a likeable character to get people to do his bidding.(In other words it was just chance that the two other white prophets mentioned in the book took upon themselves catalysts of opposite sex)