In-Between the Skill-Pillars?

[Misplaced Marbles]

Sorry, possible spoilers for Fool's Fate.

Anyway, hiya!

I am a bit confuddled about the Skill Pillars. I shall explain. When Fitz departs Aslevjal for the last time via the Skill Pillar, his journey ends up going a bit skewiff. He ends up arriving at some dark confuddling place with something/someone talking to him, totally off the map for a whole month unable to Skill for help. I just did not understand where he went, who was talking to him and what was happening in general! Does anyone have an idea of what ws going on, or was it completely obvious and i didn't notice?

Oh that upset me so much! Poor Fool must have been distraught at losing Fitz and never knowing what happened! (Hopefully Hobb writes a new Farseer novel with Fitz and Fool).

Fool and Fitz forever.

x X x

 

[Koopa]

Higher beings, i dunno, it was like something greater then ordinary humans, perhpas the planets itself,or somethinglike that, it is a very confusing scene

 

[CyanideMilkshake]

As i've posted in another forum about the same thing, it's always been my opinion that he was in the mass skill flow of the universe and the beings within this place are all the people who have ever skilled and then given up their physical beings to become one with the skill stream. So it could have been an ancient elderling, long departed from their physical body and living immersed in the skill. Bodiless and eternal.
Note how she says that he is not 'finished' and should not come back until he's ready. I think by this she means he has more of his life to live and should fulfill his potential before he gives over his consciousness to the skill-stream (which, to my mind, is a boundless place where consciousness meets and flows without boundaries, something outside space and time where one can just 'be'. When a regular person gets lost in the skill stream they become 'drooling babes', their minds working in the euphoria of the skill but their bodies neglected, so I think in order for one to truly engage in this dark world we spy through the skill pillars, one needs to release their physical bodies altogether, to 'die' if you like, and have their 'souls' spread out into the wide stream. SO, inside the pillars, inside the skill, all the 'people' or 'beings' there are those who have given themselves over entirely and no long have real lives in the physical world.)
I think these great beings can be distracted by mortals who skill. Fitz certainly attracted the attention of that one being at least twice. I think they view someone who still has a physical body and a life to live as 'incomplete'. Some of the beings ignore them as inconsequential, but others (the presence Fitz encounters for example) feel indulgent and push them in the right direction.