Thank you so much for your time guys, I enjoyed sharing the reminiscing :)

I didn't think the parasites were contrived. Fitz gave every last bit of energy he had to the Fool and Nighteyes kept a tiny bit. Then the Silver made his body repair all his injuries and the leg wound with the tiny bit of reserves he had. On top of that come the parasites, which grow rapidly, so his reserves can't even begin to rebuild. I think if a Skill coterie had found him right away they could have healed him from the parasites but he spent so much time alone until it was too late for anybody to do anything.

I like that fitz represented the past, the fool represented the future and nighteyes represented the present . They all agreed to live in the present as the stone wolf

Just finished the last book and glad to keep the story alive a little longer with your discussion! I didn't think it was possible for Hobb to write an ending that felt so right, but of course she managed it. The Fool's immediate choice to join Fitz in the stone dragon/wolf felt like a such a heartbreakingly brilliant way to tie up their relationship 😪

I'm thankful to be able to watching this video after finishing the realm of the elderlings what a ride!

Just finished Assassin's Fate yesterday, and watching this chat helps process everything. So thanks for that

I just finished ROTE. Thanks so much for this podcast! It was so cathartic to hear everyone review all the book details and compare it to my own experience. More people need to read this series !! Honestly the most emotional reading experience of my life and for 2 hours I felt I got to share that with you. Thank you

Damn, I missed it! But any Robin Hobb talk is welcome after a long day of work. It's like coming home, and coming home again if that makes any sense. I'm so glad I found your channel from your Robin Hobb videos, I feel more among my people here than any other booktube channel, so keep up the good work 💞

For some reason, I missed this when it first came out but it’s lovely to get the chance to revisit the Realm and hear your thoughts on it.

This has been a wonderful ride with both of you. Chris, still looking forward to your mum and dads reviews, they're amazing. Jimmy, I'm sorry I missed the live, it was a school night but this has been an incredible journey. I will be reading these for many years to come. They're Family. Cheers to my fellow Hobblings.

Just finished. Gotta go take a walk and let it settle... The perfect ending for me. I love Robin Hobb!

While I have managed to get a couple of my friends started on this series recently it will be a long while before any of them complete it, so I am so grateful to have been able to watch this discussion. I needed this. Thank you!

Loved listening to the discussion. Thanks for doing it!

1:14:49 that was so heartbreaking. Chade in his moments of insanity where Fitz felt he wanted to be loved so badly and feared he was just a tool for all and that they only pretend to like him 😢 I think he has a lot of insecurities he shares with Fitz

I yesterday finished Fitz & Fool. What a ride! I also love that in a way it's not about the disappearance of magic like often in fantasy stories but the revival of magic

Great video, and great books. I'm faschinated that in this trilogy practically everyone kills more people than Fitz the great assassin, even Bee or Per, as the Fool pointed out at a certain point. Fitz heal a lot of people all the time but he have very few important kill.

I already loved Farseer, but how can you write 3 perfect trilogies after that?! Queen of Heartbreak

Jimmy and Chris thank you so much. After reading MBoTF and absolutely loving it, and now this series I have to say RoTE is my all time favorite. Maybe it’s because I just finished Assassins Fate and feel so changed by it. I can’t believe it’s over. Never have I been more invested in a character as Fitz. I hope it’s not over.

Darn, missed this cause of a test. Will watch later for sure!

Love this stuff. Amazing to sit behind a screen and fan over a fantasy series. Would say some stuff about the series but one comment won’t do it justice. Your boy from the UK here, maybe one day I’ll catch one live.

I knew Fitz wasn't going to survive this trilogy the moment they gave a first-person perspective to Bee

1:20:00 I really also thought Fitz would survive. I mean I even catched that he gots dart in him and connected it with the parasites and traitor's death. There even was a note of one of the Four before one of the chapters that talked about the worms and how they eat you from the inside. I knew that but even when Nighteyes told Fitz he's gonna die and has to carve his stone dragon I thought Bee and the rest will save him. I believed he'd survive until they found him at the quarry😭

I'm one of those watching from the future! Lol! Wow! I just finished Assassins Fate. Words can't even describe the range of emotions I feel! Thank you for this discussion. You guys helped to wrap up this amazing journey!

I can’t watch, but I’m here to say that I truly can’t wait to get through the series so that I can come and enjoy all these videos! 🥰

I have already committed..again thanks for this. Just finished. I absolutely love it....One correction, Amber did give Paragon the first bit of silver, however it was Kennits son who sacrificed himself in the flames to give Paragon the silver to fully change.

Who protected bee in Pillar was it Tintaglia ? It said about something yours helped mine once now i help you wolf cub or something. I think it was Tintaglia but it might also been Verity the dragon.

just finished AF and holy shit i have never cried like this EVER😭😭😭,i knew this series was special from the moment i read the prologue in assassin’s apprentice and it ended with “and a catalyst i became”

Great video chat, about Robin Hobb!! 📖📚📽

I was never attached to Molly but I loved her as Bees mother. She was the perfect Mum to Bee and that was beautiful.

I now made a list of all the scene that came to mind that I want to draw. Got to more than fifty before the sheet of my journal was full😅

Patience is maybe my favorite female character in the whole series. Other contenders are: Ronica Vestrit, Alise (the wife to Tarman's captain Leftrin) and Kettricken. Well and Bee ofc

20 months later and I can finally watch this

Only just had a chance to watch this. Really enjoyable session - left me with a big smile at a time I needed a distraction. And yes, wanting to read the whole thing again :) Re Bujold - I think you would like her books ("Curse of Chalion" is one of my favourite books and the Vorkosigan saga is brill too). But to say she is like Hobb is misleading you, I think. Her ability in characterisation is similar but Bujold is not as in depth and detailed in background of her worlds.

I loved Assassin’s Fate, the best book ever I hated Molly but I loved Nettle so much, they are so alike but Nettle is simply 🔥 I didn’t really care when Chade died, never liked him much I’ve realised I missed Nighteyes a lot, especially when he is with us again so much in the last books Bee is amazing but sometimes I wished she didn’t act so arrogantly I’ve been stuck in Fitz’s head for half a year and now it’s all over and I’ve no idea what to read next, I feel kind of empty now idk Fitz died valiantly, even if that was awful The Fool is my beloved character now, thanks 💘

Just finished yesterday. Long time coming after reading Farseer 7 or 8 years ago, but I can confidently say this is my favorite series of all time. Love Bee. Fool's Assassin is by far my favorite in this last trilogy, followed by Fool's Quest and then Assassin's Fate (which seems to be unpopular on booktube but I would actually put Assassin's Fate somewhere in the bottom half of ROTE books even though its still 5 stars). Not that anyone cares, but my overall subseries rankings: 1. Liveship 2. Tawny Man 3. Fitz and the Fool 4. Farseer 5. Rainwild (Still loved it)

So stoked to watch this… just finished Assassins Fate. Best series of all time

51:19 yeah that was soo heartbreaking. Imagine what could have been

According to my calculations Chade must be at the end around 100-120 years old cuz he was already old in the Farseer trilogy. He was Shrewd's elder brother who already was old and died in the 1st trilogy tho if we say it's mostly cuz of Regal and Desire's shenanigans and drugging him and he died around 50 and assuming Chade is just barely older would mean Chade is at the time of his death 51+63(that's I think Fitz' age) -6 (cuz Fitz story starts at that age)=108 years old and if he was already 60 or so he might be around 120 yrs. So yeah he really was active for a long time

Just finished and god damn. Listening to this now!

Missed the live because of UK time, but loved watching this morning. I am just starting another re-read of Assassins Fate and procrastinating a bit as I don't want to face the ending again 😭...... But when I have found the courage to continue to the end, I am going to put the RotE aside and give The Soldier Son trilogy another go, I tried reading it on release, but honestly, I was so pissed off with it not being about Fitz etc I dnf'd it and I know I didn't give it a fair shot, I am pretty sure it was good reading, but it wasn't what I wanted at that time. Do you have plans to read The Soldier Son, I would love to hear your thoughts on something completely different by Hobb?

Wintrow was a bit of a coward on account of his beliefs but when he fought the Others or “abominations” he went to town! Great review guys love these. I just finished all 16 books and these reviews have helped me cope.

Can’t believe it’s over!

Hobb is the best in having events have long term repercussions for individual characters f.ex. Fitz' beatings/torture under Regal. Like 10+ books later it's still defines him

Also Perseverance such a good character and at the very end where Fitz basically gave his blessing to him. Like I felt he wished that he'd marry Bee when they're of age

I also like Skill and Wit magic systems they are so similar as systems. They have they own rules but they will and on users ability and skill. Thought i like flashy and powerful magic as a system i like SKill and wit most. Second to it is Ward magic from "Demon cycle" what whas tronger rules but still heavily bendable.

Oh the Robin Hobb Koolaid- I’ve been telling a friend who is a fellow fantasy lover that she needs to read RotE. She won’t borrow my books ( and I won’t loan my UK books to her) because she totally cracks and destroys spines. I just found a MMPB of Assassin ‘s Apprentice for $1 at a used sale so I can loan it to her!

Just able to finally watch this now that I’m done the last book, a journey I started a decade ago! [spoilers ahead] These characters have been in my head for so long, it was definitely difficult to say goodbye. Watching your talks & reviews have been so helpful in getting closure! Tbh I was a little disappointed in the ending… I thought Fitz deserved a happily ever after. I don’t know if the horrible way he died, with the parasites and everything, was necessary when he’s already been through so much. I actually thought he died in Clerres so to have him back only to lose him again… so heartbreaking. Does anyone have theories on how the stone dragons actually work? Do Fitz & co. actually live in the dragon for a time or is it only their memories? When they died, did they go to the skill river where verity & chade was? I’m confused about all that and I think that’s what’s making it hard for me to accept what happened!

About Chade: there were moments were I distrusted Chade but not in this last trilogy. I think he has his own regrets and secrets and there could easily be a whole 9 book saga about his life. I mean he lived with his mom who was soldier turned farmer and his stepdad. They hated each other but respected each other and then he was after his mom's death on his own sent to Buckkeep. It was also hinted he had a harsh mentor and he never even talked with Fitz about it. He did his own mess ups and I think Chade is getting too much shit for being shady or in a way using Fitz cuz at the end of the day he did that cuz he seems to also have lived a similar life and he had to make Fitz useful for the royal family and able to defend himseld cuz otherwise he'd die... man I realize I'm a Chade apologist Tho I don't appreciate that he couldn't keep it in his pants

Did people not know Amber is Fool until it was unambigously stated? Cuz I suspected it from the start and early on was already sure of it

I so wanted to join in your discussion, but the time difference between you and here in the UK meant that I would have had to explain to my husband why, at the age of 64, I needed to be on the computer at 2am! So, I’m sorry, but I was tucked up nice and warm pushing out the zzzzzzs! No-one mentioned Nettle or Dutiful to explore their relationships with Fitz. I personally find Nettle was named well, god she was prickly! I do hope motherhood softened her. And the bit when Kettricken thanked Fitz for her son……..!! (sob) The love story of Fitz and the Fool was just mega and I hope plenty of people out there know now how much you can love someone/anyone (and be IN love with them) without sex getting in the way. If only more people told their friends how much they loved them. I couldn’t have faced Bee being brought up by Fool, he would have read too much into everything she did. On that point, on my first reading of the books I got annoyed with the sections at the start of each chapter - I just didn’t understand them! On my second and subsequent readings, oh my god did they make sense!!! As we have all said, Robin Hobb is THE BEST EVER. If we feel bereft, empty, sad, lost and hopeless, imagine how she feels! I bow to her, nay I prostrate myself at her feet. So thank you, boys, for your chat and I wish I had been able to join in. xx

I read the last 100 pages thru tears. As soon as Fitz got hit by the dart, I was so angry because I knew he had the worms.

The Destroyer- Bee, Fitz, the dragons, and the Fool. I think the Fool was the ultimate Destroyer as by his actions, he destroyed all of their lives, in essence because of seeking the Catalyst and setting all of the events on course.

“I just couldn’t put the book down” is my whole review of reading Robin Hobb For the last 6 months my mom was telling me to stop reading all the time and she even got really really angry with me one day 😅 P.S my grandma started reading Assassin’s Apprentice and she was like “nah that’s kind of boring” but she finished it in a week and is now reading the Royal Assassin Yeah, boring, sure🤣

What was so creepy about Clerres was Fowldry (whatever his name was) and how he would sexually assault kids. And Prillkop having been abused and tortured but wanting to restore Clerres. No. It could only go bad. And Clerres is very much reminiscent of a cult.

Hi from the future! I just finished it last night...couldn't put the last 250 pages down. I actually don't know what to do with myself now

Lady Rosemary indeed seems sus in this trilogy but it could also just be that she thinks she's the best replacement for Chade and just comes of as shady cuz well she's a spy and assassin so everything she does is kinda shady

I don't regret or wonder what would have been if Fitz was king cuz I think he'd have hated it

@TheFantasyNuttwork you mention that Fitz is a representation of Jesus. I have a similar thought except the Fool is Jesus in that he is the cosmic center of the whole story.

I finally finished the series, I nearly cried It's my favorite saga at the moment

1:00:00 agree with the cauldron guy. The Pale Woman Ilistore was the worst

Tintaglia & Sintara are the worst. Sintara even attacked Fitz in his dreams for 'changing her human' (Thymara & Tats' daughter)

"Asivjal" "Asviya'll"

I hated Shun at first cuz she was so arrogant and thought she's so much better than Fitz as assassin and spy and later we saw that she really wasn't smart at all and just very self absorbed with a sad background story. I also disliked her for the whole time when she & Bee were kidnapped until they escaped and got to talk more and get closer and at Buckkeep when Bee defended Shine and they got friends she was redeemed for me. I was ready to like Lant from the start but then he was a jerk to Bee and mooning over Shun but he redeemed himself fairly quickly in my eyes. It was clear that he wanted to help the moment the fog of his memories left and he made the whole journey with Fitz, Fool, Spark & Per to save Bee so he's redeemed for sure. And Shun & Lant was awkward but they didn't know and did the right thing by ignoring each other afterwards

The Departed is actually a remake. But a good one :D

I really like when you talk about fitz being this mythical figure because if anyone deserves to be remembered, it's the whiney idiot behind the scenes sacrificing everything time and time again to save the day.

Molly was annoying for me in Farseer (tho so was Fitz. I think he was the most dense and annoying then) and in tawny man she was neutral and this time I liked her

The Four and Dwalia were worse than Regal and that's a feat

Wintrow is best boy. What are you talking about?

I hated Starling from the start and I still do. She was terrible to Hap in Tawny Man and she was unfaithful to a lot of different people

BTW Dwalia and Kyle should've had a child and be Hobb's final antagonist, those two are the worst