The concluding volume of the Tawny Man Trilogy brings the political and personal threads of the sequence to resolution in a novel that is widely regarded as the finest in the Elderlings universe. The expedition to the Out Islands and the confrontation with the Pale Woman demands everything of Fitz and the Fool, and Hobb uses the mythological stakes of the plot to examine what a person is willing to sacrifice for prophecy, for duty, and for love. The conclusion is more generous than the Farseer ending while being no less honest, and the final pages between Fitz and the Fool are among the most discussed in contemporary fantasy fiction. Fool's Fate is the emotional summit of the Elderlings sequence.
