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A quick summary of current ideas:

Cyphus bears the blue flame. -> Fire(I) Storm(II) (I’m still convinced that it’s fire, because there is blue flame on the fire card)

Stercus is in thrall of iron. -> Collapse(III)

Ferule chill and dark of eye. -> Storm(I) Dark(I) Strife(I) (I fancy the storm theory because of the snow around him on the pot…)

Usnea lives in nothing but decay. -> Fire(I) Death(I) (I think death is more likely)

Grey Dalcenti never speaks. -> Strife(II)

Pale Alenta brings the blight. -> Sickness(III)

Alaxel bears the shadow’s hame. -> Dark(I) Death(I)

Okay. Because of the bandits chapters in Wmf, I think that Cinder’s sign is storm. We know the leader of the bandits is Cinder, and there is a hell of a storm when they attack the camp…

Thinking about this again, and my “final” thoughts are :

Cyphus bears the blue flame. -> FIRE

Stercus is in thrall of iron. -> COLLAPSE

Ferule chill and dark of eye. -> STORM

Usnea lives in nothing but decay. -> DEATH

Grey Dalcenti never speaks. -> STRIFE

Pale Alenta brings the blight. -> SICKNESS

Alaxel bears the shadow’s hame. -> DARK

#the kingkiller chronicle #pat i just want answers

Ive turned this in my mind once more and I actually think that Stercus is Strife, Usnea is Collapse, Dalcenti is Death... mmmm

"I could steal from a hundred stories and tell you a lie so familiar you would swallow it whole."

(The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss)

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kvothe experiences so many traumatic events throughout name of the wind and wise mans fear and yet the scene i struggle most to read is when he gets kicked out of the archives

There's no good story that doesn't touch on the truth.

Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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favorite quote from notw between ch 1-25

It was the cut-flower sound of a man waiting to die.

There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain...

Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

Stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else.

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... one must leave reality behind.

First week is done! Thoughts? Questions? Rants?

#literally at this point this party is just me and carrie lmao

#kkcreadalong25 #kkcreadalongspoilers #the kingkiller chronicle #tw: sexual assault #tw: rape

There's a thing that makes kkc different from many grim fantasy books from me, and that I see mentioned relatively rarely: it does not shy away from sexual violence against men.

So often, grim fantasy books will feature raped women aplenty, and horrifying torture for the men, but will always draw the line between the two. And it is such a cop out, misogynistic take. It is also what feminists mean when they say the patriarchy hurts men too. The violence against them is only tolerable when it is specific, an obstacle to overcome. Any other type of violence committed against them must not be acknowledged. It must not even exist. In a patriarchal world, men cannot be raped, because sex is the ultimate tool of their power, and should it be used against them, it unmans them. Only lesser beings suffer that way, and as lesser beings, what need is there to heal them at all?

In the first two hundred pages of Name of the Wind, while I will not deny that there is a fair amount of misogyny, you also get two mentions of Kvothe escaping sexual assault. The second one is so small, you will miss it if you blink - and the details of what happened will not be revealed until a lot later. It is Kvothe brushing over the subject, as he is expected to by the society he evolves in, but as a reader, I find it so quietly horrifying. Truly, the Tarbean parts are some of the most painful bits of the series. And they inform a lot of what happens later on.

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Notw chapter 2

I'm almost sure Folly is Cinder's sword..... So why does Bast have it? Why did Kvothe entrust it to him?

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KKC Readalong 2025: Chapter 2-5

The scene where Chronicler is robbed is really so funny to me. I always forget how amusing I find that scene.

The Chandrian are mentioned again, through a song, where we are given hints to their signs of blue fire and black eyes. Rothfuss also sneaks in the line, "What's their plan? What's their plan?" By asking this question early on, there must be plans to answer it in Doors of Stone (26-27).

The man who recognizes Kvothe tells us about presumably a scene we see later on where he sings Sir Savien. And a scene we haven't seen, where he kills someone in Imre. Do we think he kills Ambrose? A different character? One we met or haven't met? Kvothe has killed before but never in Imre, with shattered cobblestones. How much does the drunk man remember and how many details is he confusing? (28)

When Kote tells Bast to listen three times, I get emotional. Sim took such good care of him, he made an impact on him, even no longer being in his life. Can't believe it ties in to a later scene. (29)

"You'd be surprised at the sorts of things hidden away in children’s sons" (37) Kote says this to Chronicler about a different song, but I think it is notable he says this after the reader has seen the Chandrian song.

The third book must be where Kvothe learns more about fae, because the scrael must be fae.

So fucking weird that Bast watches Kote sleep while he sings a lullaby. also the line "And the wind will have its way," which implies the end of life? I can see why this scene might lead people to ship Kote and Bast, and like I get it, same with the scene with the notes, but they just don't have the chemistry or connection I need between characters for me to root for them. I also like Kote so much more than Bast to be perfectly honest and I think Kote could do better. Side note, would anyone class this as queerbaiting? (42)

KKC Readalong 2025: Prologue and Chapter 1

First off, I am reading my newest copy of Name of the Wind which was personally rebound for me by my friends! Pictures will be posted later this month. It is the 10th anniversary edition, so any page numbers I include will be from that edition.

I'm a day early but here are some thoughts.

This book is so achingly familiar to me and yet every time I reread it, I find new things to discover. There are so many layers to the characters, the writing, the world. . . I'm blown away.

The prologue is probably the best one I have ever read. It feels like an overture, setting the mood, setting the scene, creating the atmosphere in literally a page of writing. It feels like poetry, a page where the sound of the words matters as much as their meaning.

I also want to say, I don't think Doors of Stone can end any other way than with a line that is something along the lines of, "a man ready to live." If Kote is still hiding from his past, if he is still "ready to die," then it is a tragedy (1). And while there is tragedy baked into the story at a core level, I would argue hope is the center, is the driving force and the inevitable end of the book.

Kvothe and Kote need to become one. His present and past selves need to meet and he will be another version of himself, possibly with a new name. Names are so important, Kvothe has had so many names, he is likely to have another by the end of Doors of Stone (I say like we have a release date of this book).

To jump back from my DoS theories, the first chapters stresses the importance of storytelling immediately. Not just that, the first story features the Chandrian. Some of the stories were hear about them later appear early on, like blue flame as a sign or how many members there are or what their origin is (3, 6). The combination of them being so central to Kvothe's story and being the first story the reader hears in the entire work indicates them being essential to the series.

Now for a negative. Wow, does the sexism start off immediately. The first chapter in and no women are named, while 8 men are. The women who are mentioned? "A beautiful girl" who Bast uses as an excuse for not doing homework (12) and "There are a few young wives in town. A scattering of daughters" (14). The women are talked about only in relation to men and don't have any names. While this does change, I really do not fault readers for putting this book down due to the sexism. The start does not make one hopeful about their portrayal throughout the series. As much as I love these books, I am not about to pretend it is without flaws.

I will read more today and I will probably be posting pretty regularly with my updates!

The Name of the Wind - Prologue + chapter 1

Soooooo. With the context of the doors of stone prologue...... It really sounds like the Waystone is a trap and Kote himself the bait for something 👀 with the silence being a key component? It might tie in with the "of course there was no music" which I had always interpreted as Kote being too broken to tolerate music that he lost, but now I'm wondering if its something else. There's a line about him humming but that he would have stopped himself if he had known, so maybe the silence is really part of the bait, and won't work if anyone does music around...

There's, on another topic, a throwaway line about "who else would teach Bast" and I'm wondering why that is. It's not like Kvothe is apparently teaching him something that any other arcanist could not, so is it about Bast himself? Is he forsaken by his people in a way that makes Kvothe his only option?

maybe you should go and reread name of the wind then you'll feel better