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blackandwhitemotley · 4 years

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Assassin’s Quest Question Time:

1. What were your favourite moments

Gravebirth and Fitz telling Burrich and Chade a few home truths

Fitz and Nighteyes meeting the Old Bloods

Fitz’s botched assassination attempt in Tradeford and the confrontation with Will

Nettle’s birth

Trap-Trap

Every mention of the Lady of Buckkeep ♥

Fitz recovering from his arrow wound in the Fool’s house (chapter 20 in particular is nothing short of poetry)

The Skill road

The rock slide

The Skill-vision at the market plaza

Molly and her Wit-bees

Will’s death and Fitz’s insight into Regal’s mind

2. Favourite quotes?

I awake every morning with ink on my hands

‘Oh, Fitz, Fitz, my boy,’ he said in a voice full of relief. ‘I thought we had lost you. I thought we’d done something worse than let you die.’ His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him that they had.

Fishing and ear scratching. The two reasons why men were given hands.

Sleeping is serious.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

Of course I knew where he was. He was a part of me.

‘When I recall how beautiful you were.’

‘Tomorrow,’ he told me gravely. ‘We shall be ourselves again. The Fool and the Bastard. Or the White Prophet and the Catalyst, if you will. We will have to take up those lives, as little as we care for them, and fulfil all fate has decreed for us. But for here, for now, just between us two, and for no other reason save I am me and you are you, I tell you this. I am glad, glad that you are alive. To see you take breath puts the breath back in my lungs. If there must be another my fate is twined around, I am glad it is you.’

‘Does it bother you? That I am Witted?’ ‘Does it bother you to meet my eyes?’

‘That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.’

‘And I love you, and all that is a part of you.’

You see, said the wolf. He senses me. Not clearly, but he does. Hello, Fool. My ears itch. Outside the tent, the Fool reached down suddenly to scratch the wolf’s ears.

He had probably never considered that all I wanted from him was to be left alone.

‘Ignorance is always the excuse used by the cruelly curious!’

‘You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Look back, in truth. You will find you recall fully as many quarrels and tears as you do love-making and kisses. Fitz. Be wise. Let her go, and keep those memories intact. Save what you can of her, and let her keep what she can of the wild and daring boy she loved.’

Ah, little brother, you find your ears at last! My kill is ever your kill, and we shall be pack forever!

A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

3. Did the reread change your opinion of the book trilogy? In what way?

I always say that Tawny Man is by far my favourite trilogy, but now I’m not so sure... Now I think it might be a tie between Farseer and Tawny Man 😊

I can’t think of a single character who feels one-dimensional, and my opinion about some of them changed, like Verity (painted as a much “greyer” character than I remembered), Regal (much more complex and interesting than I first gave him credit for), Will (whose very existence had been erased from my mind - his Skill is just that good), and even Fitz (gods he had it rough... 💔).

I was also very pleasantly surprised by the gender balance in these books. Now that I’ve read more fantasy, I know that man is almost always the default gender for all minor characters, but it’s not the case in the Farseer trilogy, where a lot of guards, soldiers, merchants, etc. are women. I know this is partly because sexism isn’t really supposed to be a thing in the Six Duchies, but still, it’s a breath of fresh air. Especially for a book series written in the 90s.

I did notice more inconsistencies this time, mostly about some characters’ ages, names, and other small things (like which of the Fool’s hands is silvered). But such details really aren’t important, and don’t diminish the quality of the books in any way.

Also, Farseer’s ending is my favourite out of the 3 Fitz trilogies. It’s very bittersweet but everything makes sense, and it’s just... perfect.

#rote #Realm of the Elderlings #robin hobb #assassin's quest #the farseer trilogy #rote reread #question time #linda if you're reading this you know the thing about regal is 100% your fault #i feel bad for pointing out the silvered hand thing but it was just too funny #first it's the left hand and literally 10 pages later the right one #xDD #i really don't blame hobb at all though #she's human #and so are her proofreaders #i just feel sorry for fandom artists ^^'

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