[split] What does the name "Farseer" really mean? SPOILERS ALL BOOKS

[Valarya]

Just a quick visit here but I so very much want to come back to discuss it all...

**City of Dragons spoiler to about Chapter Three (so if you've read the publisher pdfs, as featured on the main news page, you'll be fine)*

Spoiler

The number twelve cannot represent the actual number of Skill-Pillars. There are five in the King of Chalced's Throne Room, (which I assume to be located in the map tower of an old Elderling city?), four for the Witness Stones at Buck, one at the plaza where Fool and Fitz had their joint 'vision', one in the quarry, one in the Stone Garden, one on Others' Island and one in the map tower of Aslevjal. That alone is fourteen without any others. Unless one 'Pillar' (as in each of the twelve Pillars of the Man Ceremony) does only denote or represent one destination or Portal Gate grouping...but I doubt it...I think! Who else went when they read of those five blocks of memory stone?!

Oooooh yes!!!!

Same CoD spoilers that Farseer mentioned, nothing more:

When I saw this it reminded me of the discussion here somewhere about the 'center' of the world - or map. We know Buckkeep was a very prominent place in the world of the Elderlings for having 4 whole Skill Pillars in one place. When I saw FIVE there in Chalced I thought to myself "oh my gods this is it, this is the central home of Elderlings!"

It has to be. It makes the most sense based on where we know all the other Pillars to be. (And thinking of the other Pillars that are now on the bottom of the ocean along with the rest of the used-to-be coastline.)

I think this brings about entirely new ideas about the Elderlings realm and whether border-lines even existed. I believe the Farseers are definitely descended from Elderlings... but oh my what about the rulers of Chalced!?