r/robinhobb

I’m about 50% through Royal Assassin and I’m confused about something (please no spoilers past this point).

How does Verity not know Fitz has the Wit?

If Verity is in Fitz’s mind so often through the Skill, wouldn’t he be able to see/notice Fitz’s bond with Nighteyes and the fact that they hunt together? It feels like that should be obvious if he’s literally in Fitz’s head.

Am I missing something, or is this explained later?

I used to like her and still do but from fitz lens sone things stand out that

1. how she said that the bees are Supposed to be nettle’s servant which when you see through fitz and night eyes is pretty wrong

2. She doesn’t understand all that fitz has to do unlike her who is a normal person fitz is a royal bastard and a kings man so he can’t devote his life to her

3. also I think by the end of farseer she love burrich more than she ever loved fitz

4. Also she should understand fitz has to keep some of his secrets ( though he wasn’t hated in buckeep like he was in tradeford in assassin’s quest

5. I don’t think she understood how much the six duchies ment to fitz or tried to understand him

also ya I may be biased as I was taken aback

(what really happened before fitz got into verity DID THEY JUST HUG OR SOMETHING MORE IDK)

At the near end of the trilogy, my God Fitz? Can you not tell that they are asking questions about Molly? Fitz you frustrate the heck out of me!

It’s hilarious how wildly out of control things are getting in such a mundane environment LOL:

A MESSENGER FROM THE FOOL!

Jesus I genuinely thought that was The Fool dead on the floor then, just shit my pants.

Not ANOTHER missed message from The Fool, where the fuck did that lady go!!!

Genuinely tho the jig is up Hobb like where is The Fool now man, come on stop playing games just send him to me.

HOLY shit she’s back!!!

Insane message.. my thoughts : I believe the boy referenced is Bee. I really HIGHLY doubt the Fool slept with someone, so Bee is not only the logical answer as a half white via Fitz and Fool body mingling shenanigans, but also it was proven by the Fool that White’s can be genderless or appear as either gender. I also think the White’s themselves are the ones hunting Fool and Bee… the messenger girl spoke about eggs being planted in her for betrayal? She’s been made to borne 3 children? No regular human is going to have such intimate knowledge of Whites… again, I feel it must be a culling of the Whites via their own, like with the Piebalds killing their own witted. And finally… hunters arriving as friends? My brother, Fitz does not make friends… does this mean… some of his true friends are betrayers? Some of the Buckkeep retinue, even if they mean well… if they found out about Bee and her true nature, are they the ones to worry about? Brain is spinningggggg.

Oh also WHERE IS THE FOOL.

Also this is so starkly off topic but if I don’t get my Avengers Endgame callbacks in these books of all my favourites returning from all the other books I will RIOT.

Cannot for the life of me work out why Hobb made Shun so far. Need to see where this goes.

Wonder how many more brand spanking new characters like Bee and Shun we will see in these books. So fun! Although saying that.. I miss my Buckkeep crew :( miss you Thick and Dutiful my messy fucked up coterie

Wow. I had to read it twice before I even realize what happened. Obviously the entire book was building up to it but it still was a blow.

It was beautifully written though, for such a short passage. I thought it was incredibly poignant how alive Nighteyes felt in his final shared moment with Fitz, ironically enough. Right until the end, he was so full of spirit.

Alguien ha traducido fools quest, assansis fate a español?? Quiero acabarme la saga que encanta pero solo esta en inglés

Will we leave Withywoods this book? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!:

So.. Chade meet up at the inn, Riddle is here (love Riddle so much man, what a solid guy) and … a new bastard assassin, which hasn’t been revealed yet but is SO OBVIOUSLY Chade’s daughter.

Shun. Weird name.

Still no confirmation as Fitz leaves but… dude. It’s Chade’s daughter. COME ON.

Wow, UBER portentous dream journal from Bee there… I do believe at some point in these books, we will see Fitz die fully, and having Bee’s 1st person POV now all but confirms that for me… she will be able to continue the narrative beyond the pages post his death

Bro… Bee’s dreams are amazing. It’s so fun to see inside the head of a prophet. I also really like Bee’s prose.

Is The Fool…. Is the Fool dead? If you’ve off screened the Fool Hobb, I will never forgive you!!!!!!!

Something Bee, The Fool and the narrative in general has always referenced is the story going on further than it should do… is this what FATF is all about? The Prophet and Catalyst taking it too far?

Okay, I really really really really like Bee. She has very quickly grown on me a TON. I’ve loved listening to her dreams, I’ve loved watching her discover the secret writings of Fitz and put together pieces of the past, I love her dialogue and I love how much she reminds me of The Fool. It’s like having a POV with the Fool, something I always wanted. I am a sucker for anything portentous!

First of, this is in no way connected to discussing reading order, I know i made a mistake and that is from googling "Fitz Farseer" after finishing The Farseer Trilogy since it's my first encounter with the ROTE.

So, as I fell in love with the ROTE series from the start with the Assassin's Apprentice narrated by Paul Boehmer, I was stuck. After a bad search string when googling the continuance of the series, I started Fool's Errand with Nick Taylor, which took a bit of getting used to but was a solid narrator for The Tawny Man Trilogy... As I found out now that I finished Fool's Fate that I actually missed a crucial Trilogy: The Liveship Traders, I decided to go straight in with Ship of Magic narrated by Anne Flosnik and found myself discouraged... I find her voice extremely AI generated! I'm 12.5 minutes in and dreading listening to her for another 34h (34h02min from start to finish).

On my app, there's another choice for The Liveship Traders narrated by Lucy Tregaer, but the first book is "only" 33h25m. So, is Lucy a "better" (I know this would be subjective) narrator? What would I miss going for the shorter version? Would it be worth it in the end?

I would really like to know how others stand on this as I listen on my commute to and from work every day 45min each way and so far I've longed for my commute each weekend, but now I'm torn...

Update: I've read all comments, and though I don't want to sound unappreciative to Anne, experimenting with the speed didn't solve the issue. I decided to try our Lucy instead, and found her narration more to my liking. So will go for her narration and experiencing The Liveship Traders along her instead.

Hi I'm reading Ship Of Destiny (about 1/3 of the way through) and I can't figure out if I haven't had some things revealed to me or if I forgot them.

1. The signs of mutiny and piracy are obvious in Lavoy but I can't remember if I met him before he joined the Paragon crew. Have I met him before? Like should I remember him being involved with Kennit? Please dont spoil if it wasn't revealed to me in earlier books!

2. This is one I'm just afraid to google because I don't want anything spoiled. Why did the 3 Ships families come to Bingtown? Did they come willingly? Were we told where they came from? I know I was given some info about them before but I forgot.

Thank you!!

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming!:

Enjoyed Fitz showing that he still has his stealth and tactile ways in front of Rosemary and Chade.

This early childhood Bee stuff is … slow.

HOLY FUCK?! IS THIS A BEE FARSEER POV?!

HOLY SHIT. Of all the things to expect, NEVER EVER did I expect another 1st person POV. WOW. What a twist.

And there it is. Bee is a White Prophet, confirmed by her seeing diverging paths.

Holy fucking shit dude. Bee is like a full prophet, even giving fits ethereal lines from her dreams like the Fool would. FUCK. What does this mean for The Fool, more than anything?

Molly dying doesn’t even surprise me in the slightest. Truthfully, I thought that the story would begin with her JUST having died.

For how slow this has been, I love Fitz and Bee’s dynamic now she is engaging with him more. This is great stuff.

Riddle hugging Fitz HARD, everyone responding to Fitz with the Skill so quickly when they felt Molly go, everyone including Thick in the less than 5 people in Fitz’s life that he genuinely loves are reasons why this story is so special to me.

Bro all jokes aside WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FOOL.

I’m still a little bit in awe that there’s another first person POV in the story. That is wild. It feels a little bit … dirty? Unsacred… almost like Fitz should be the only POV!

I’ve truly lost track of age and time in this book. How old is Fitz now? Hold old is everyone else? Jesus.