#regal farseer

[arcadiiian]

so i just finished reading assassin's apprentice

[els-moonleaf]

Regal (ugh) and Will (ugh but a little less hateful)

Being so bad at the Skill that you have to drain half your coterie like capri suns is soo embarrassing.

[wretchedbroth]

I will never be normal about Assassin’s Quest.

[izzi-illustrates]

I have become more insane: I've extended the Farseer family tree up to the end of The Tawny Man trilogy.

(original version here)

It got a wee bit messy; design choices and spoilers below the cut.

PHEW.

First: Dutiful came out looking both like Fitz and Kettricken, but also a little like Regal, which was an unexpected but not unwanted development. Dutiful's parentage is muddier and more complicated than I've drawn it (this being an "official" family tree) but since I personally feel Verity is Dutiful's father in ways that matter more to me, I made sure he had Verity's nose - the Farseer nose - and his big dark eyes.

I spent longer on Elliania, drawing from archival photographs of young inuit women, and deliberately using cooler browns for her hair and skin than the warmer Farseer colouring to distinguish her. The Farseers are distantly related to the Outislanders, but they've also intermingled for generations with other Duchy folk, and I wanted to distinguish Elliania's look and style significantly enough that she'd stand out; I think I succeeded.

And then there's Molly's marriage to Burrich... Burrich is such an important character to me personally, and his connection to King-in-Waiting Chivalry so important to the story, (with his raising of Nettle also being key to the story) that it felt wrong not to include him, and his and Molly's sons, in this tree, even if they're none of them Farseers.

I had fun thinking about who would take more after Burrich or more after Molly, and settled on most of the boys taking strongly after Burrich, with Chiv being the most like his father in looks (down to being in the process of growing his hair out in baby locs), the twins having the greatest mix of both parents, but all the boys having Molly's hairline, even if their curl texture isn't hers. I gave Just her hair colour because I don't care that red hair is a recessive gene; this is fantasy and I'm having fun. I also gave Nettle her mother's "surname" (since Nettle remarks that her mother wants her to learn her trade) and the boys are all Burrichson except Swift, who chooses to go by Swift Witted for most of his book appearances so far.*

Nettle is as clean a combination of Molly and Fitz as I could make, taking after her mother in colouring and brows, but taking after Fitz in her chin and eyes. I also deliberately gave her Chivalry's nose, since Fitz's is the product of a severe break.

*If I make a further family tree up to the end of The Fitz and The Fool trilogy, I'll probably name Nettle as Nettle Skillmistress or Nettle Farseer. Similarly, I named Hap as Mishap Badgerlockson, but he'd be Hap Gladheart by the end of the RotE series.

[sirguyofdykesborn]

Could you draw fitz and regal?

regal was really funny for meeting a six year old and immediately declaring him his arch nemesis. and then he spends the next three books smoking weed and randomly killing people

[heyitsrink]

Realm of the Villains | Crown

a crown fit for a pretender

[ladymacbethisagirlboss]

Robin Hobb's ability to make me want to strangle a character with my bare hands is unparalleled

[waining-crescent-moon]

I just came up with an AU where Fitz was in a Nettle like situation where his mom raised him and he didn’t know who his dad was. This is ground breaking, I know. Anyway, really think about how cool it could have been like I have so many ideas.

Fitz could Wit-Bond to a wolf in the mountains when he’s kinda young. The Fool could live in a tent or a small cabin in the woods then visit Fitz every once in a while, they could actually have a childhood together. After a trip in the woods Fitz, Keppet, could return to his mother dead, courtesy of Queen Desire trying to find him but his mother lying to the people she sent. Keppet taking a lock of her hair and braiding it into his own then he has to run because the guards are returning.

The overall story could be him first running to Jhaampe and trying to explain to his Sacrifices how his family was attacked by Six Duchies soldiers. Kettricken and/or Rurisk then trying to discuss it with the Six Duchies but that only gets Regal sent their way. After Regal inevitably tries to kill him Keppet decides to travel all the way to Buckkeep himself. Along the way he may discover travel companion such as Beloved, his wolf, and Burrich.

[spending-life-pretending]

Just remembered that one scene in Assassin’s Apprentice where baby Fitz runs into Verity and Regal on the road and they think he’s Chiv’s ghost for a second. Now granted I don’t have the book in front of me so maybe there’s more context…but how the fuck was that interaction going before Fitz showed up? Was Regal being ominous and evil or were they just…chilling?? Did Verity view him as a threat, or was he just his baby brother? Wasn’t Regal like. Fifteen. Farseer brothers…reveal the intricacies of your dynamics to me.

[cokiri]

Regal - King of Spades

(Of course, spades are the bad guys 🙄)

[arcadiiian]

no i don't have a favorite farseer what makes you think that........

[poisonder]

have you ever hated a man so much

[artbyandia]

Regal's Coterie for halloween

[souvelani]

Listen. I don’t like Regal. But if you left me alone with that man I cannot even BEGIN to explain the things I’d do to him.

[izzi-illustrates]

King Shrewd had three sons: Chivalry and Verity by his first queen, Constance, and his third beloved son, Regal, by his second queen, Desire.

[sirguyofdykesborn]

more regal pls!

this ask was there since february but i think now is a good time to release rejected ass quest stuff