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Fitz makes more sense as a portrait of a schizoid; like Counsellor Troi, his erratic, tempestuous superpower is to look at people, and imagine what they might be feeling.
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Not that I especially want to go to bat for the adolescent fantasy, but I don't think the point about the naming convention is quite right. Chivalry is an adulterer (this one was subtle, I admit); Verity uses deceit in his magic, even with Fitz; Shrewd is noted as pretty stupid when it comes to family and marriage, and eventually goes senile; "regal" does not simply mean "wants to be a king". The characterisation is not quite as absolute as Bravest makes out, and the effect is to create ironic tension between these characters' actions and their socially-constructed self-image - in turn, the conflict to reconcile multiple, often contradictory, social and personal identities is, like, Fitz's basic core struggle and source of teenage angst. I don't think "world-building" is really the problem with the book either. It didn't seem like Hobb had any particular interest in the setting, beyond ways for it to torment the protagonist.
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