Ok. So we know from the Places Beyond the Maps that the One Mountain, essentially on the other side of the world, was where Dwayne and Gladys spoke to the Maker.
We know from the rest of the series that the First Fellows guarded the First Well, which is in the Blackwood.
We also know, from the short excerpts from the First Books, that they could access the Fane of Fire, which is in Anniera.
The Mountain is on the other side of the world, the Well is in the Blackwood, and the Fane is in Anniera. Yet the First Fellows had access to all of those.
My question is, why are they all so far apart? We know the dragons rent the world after Ouster Will, but I would think that they'd still be a bit closer.
I might come up with a theory at some point, but as of right now, I have no idea.
I'm not sure. Maybe it was so the characters would have something to do for the first half of North or be Eaten.
it does seem a bit odd though
I don't know if this helps at all, and I might be taking the parallels too literally, but the One Mountain reminds me of the concept of Mt. Sinai in Exodus (the people first encountered/met with God there), and the Fane sorta reminds me of the concept of the tabernacle/temple in that it was with the people, but only a certain person could go all the way inside.
Do we know if they spoke with the Maker multiple times on the One Mountain?
Well, they lived for a very long time, so even if they only visited the mountain every hundred years, they could still go quite a few times. They still had an alliance with the dragons then, so maybe the dragons gave them rides? I'm curious about why they would go to the mountain to talk to the Maker when the Fane was so much closer.
The Well and the Fane were kind of far apart, but nothing like the distance of the mountain. The Blackwood may not have grown up by then, and the way could have been easier. It was all in the same kingdom then, so maybe they just traveled the kingdom frequently? They might have been traveling a lot anyway, delivering water to people who couldn't get to the Well.
Well, those are my thoughts. Another idea is that since Andrew Peterson didn't come up with the mountain, so it doesn't fit in as well with the rest of the canon! (yeah, I don't like that idea so much)