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FitzChivalry Farseer The illegitimate son of Prince Chivalry Farseer, brought to Buckkeep Castle as a child and raised in the stables before being taken into the service of the crown as a royal assassin. Fitz carries both the Skill and the Wit - the former the prised magic of the Farseer line, the latter a stigmatised ability to bond with animals that he must conceal throughout his life. Hobb's most sustained creation, followed across six novels and decades of in-world time, he is one of contemporary fantasy's most fully realised protagonists - a man defined by his service to others and his difficulty in serving himself. |
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Verity Farseer The second son of King Shrewd, whose genuine decency and selfless devotion to his kingdom make him the embodiment of the kingly virtues his name suggests. Verity's relationship with Fitz is one of the warmest in the sequence - the prince treats his bastard nephew with straightforward respect and affection that stands in contrast to much of Fitz's experience at court. His obsessive use of the Skill to combat the Red Ship Raiders and his eventual fate are among the most significant and affecting developments of the Farseer Trilogy. | Member |
Dutiful Farseer The son of Verity Farseer and Kettricken, introduced as a young prince in the Tawny Man Trilogy and present as the reigning king in the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. Dutiful's relationship with Fitz spans two trilogies and considerable in-world time, evolving from the rescued prince and his rescuer to something more complex as both age into their respective roles. His handling of the political dimensions of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy's crisis reflects the king his parents shaped him to become. | Member |
Nettle Farseer Fitz and Molly's daughter, raised without knowledge of her true father and introduced as a significant Skill talent in the Tawny Man Trilogy. Nettle's arc across the later trilogies examines the particular complexity of discovering that your parentage is not what you believed, and her role as Skillmistress at Buckkeep gives her genuine power and responsibility. Her relationship with Fitz is one of the most carefully managed emotional threads of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy - neither simple nor resolved. | Member |