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The truth about Fitz
Serack:
So I'm now home from the Washington DC signing, and I got to ask Jim if there was significance to his choice of Fitz's name. First he confirmed that he was aware Fitz means bastard, and he softly confirmed that this was intentional, and we would see how eventually.
So Electric MacButters and I were discussing this on the 3 hour drive home, and during some serious mutual brainstorming, I came up with THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER to who Fitz is (with some key insights from EMacB)
But I'm not going to tell you. (ooooh that is fun!) Instead I will give you a big hint, and let you work it out yourselves. We have everything we need to figure it out now that we know for sure that the name was intentional.
The hint: He's cursed. edit: This is conjecture if the "definitive" theory is true -Serack
P.S. Toe-mas took a flip video, and will be posting the entire signing on youtube asap.
Edit: Copied from reply #30
Ok, so the "definitive answer" part might have partially been due to my being up waaaaaay past my bed time, but here's the evidence which still has me convinced.
--- Quote from: GS ---He was youthfully scrawny, his skin bronze enough to look Native American, though his tangled red hair and pug nose argued otherwise. His eyes were an odd shade of brown, so light as to be nearly golden.
--- End quote ---
Ok first bronze skin on a redhead is really unusual. ESPECIALLY in a snow storm. Redheads typically have fair skin. When they get a lot of sun they get freckles on top of freckles. So the Redhead and bronze skin are off, and are probably from the 2 different sides of the family.
But here's the clincher.
--- Quote from: FM ch13 ---I broke out into a cold sweat and looked out the other window.
Directly into a pair of brilliant, feral, amber eyes.
...
"I am Harley MacFinn's fiance. Miss West," she said. "I am called Tera."
--- End quote ---
--- Quote from: FM ch9 ---Tera West was there, [/snip]
She was naked, her body a uniform shade of brown
--- End quote ---
Also, after mentioning how Father Forthill could sense Harry and Stuart because the good priests, ministers, shaman's can sense spirits Stuart says:
--- Quote from: GS ch9 ---"And dogs." Sir Stuart added. "Maybe one in ten of them seem to have a talent for sensing us. Probably why they are always barking."
--- End quote ---
So if he is half wolf=>human shape-shifter, that might help explain why he can hear spirits.
Finally we have this.
--- Quote from: WoJ ---“I seem to remember at a Q&A a few years ago, you said Tera West would be showing up in Book 13 aka Ghost Story. Is this still happening, or has her character been shuffled down the line a bit due to the change in total number of case file books?”
My first answer is “bump her down a couple.” But on the other hand, it might be interesting to see her again in this book.
We’ll see what happens. :)
--- End quote ---
I think she showed up in proxy too, as in not her, but as the mother of a new main character.
I believe Tera West is the only other character described with golden colored eyes, she had bronze colored hair, she was a Wolf, thus likely to have progeny that sense sprits, and she was the Fiancee of an Irishman she never married.
Sounds like all the pieces you need to put together a young man described in the first quote.
The only off part is the timeline. I believe FM was around 12 years before GS, which means that either Fitz was already around somewhere, or he aged quickly (dog years).
Vairelome:
*happy dance*
My Fitz-post was my first one on these forums! (I think I was the first person to point out his possible name significance? I didn't see earlier ones when I posted.)
Thank you for asking Jim about it, Serack. :)
rags:
Oh this is cruel!! Its bad enough that Jim keeps things secret!! :'(
Serack:
--- Quote from: Vairelome on August 02, 2011, 07:10:05 AM ---*happy dance*
My Fitz-post was my first one on these forums! (I think I was the first person to point out his possible name significance? I didn't see earlier ones when I posted.)
Thank you for asking Jim about it, Serack. :)
--- End quote ---
Yes and no. Actually parthagenon seems to have been aware of the meaning, and referred to it obliquely before you did.
--- Quote from: parthagenon on July 26, 2011, 06:10:54 PM ---Fitz, the bastard. :D
The Summer Knight is Fix.
--- End quote ---
But you were the first to point out the significance.
--- Quote from: Vairelome on July 29, 2011, 03:27:00 AM ---A possible tell-tale for future revelations concerning new character Fitz...his name.
From Webster's Online Dictionary (Uh...Google it to verify, I'm a nub at making links. Oh, emphasis mine.):
Fitz (n.): 1. A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.
(The duke of Clarence during the Regency period of England [early 1800s] had 10 illegitimate children, collectively known at the time as "the Fitzclarences." Also, the duke of Clarence was a royal duke--one of the younger sons of George III--not merely one of the high nobility.)
Now, the royal bloodline may or may not be implied here for SotC purposes, but the name itself directly calls attention to paternity, and in my opinion, that is highly unlikely to be accidental. I don't have the book in front of me, but the physical characteristic I remember about Fitz was his red hair; perhaps one of the very clever people on this board remember more details that might be salient?
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This post is what inspired the question, and I'd say it's one of the better poster observations I have seen on here.
Kudos
Serack:
--- Quote from: rags on August 02, 2011, 07:14:26 AM ---Oh this is cruel!! Its bad enough that Jim keeps things secret!! :'(
--- End quote ---
If I figured it out within a week of release, someone else would have been sure to figure it out before the release of the next book. I suspect the "Big clue" will be a honking giant arrow to the answer for someone before I get up later.
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