Theory Notepad

To help the generation of content while avoiding creating empty pages we have this page. On this page you can add ideas for theories and what you base these on, before you might actually be ready to create a fully-fledged theory. Maybe you read something on a forum, maybe you read one of the books and had an idea. This kind of stuff will go here. If someone happens to get some inspiration or creates a page for that theory, then that's just an added bonus.

Lorren caused Hermas Illness
https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/2tlawp/master_loren_in_waiting/co0ajd4

Auri is one of the angels
Theory needs to be explored

Iax is Jax
Theory needs to be explored

Iax is Lanre
Theory needs to be explored

One of the chandarian switched sides
Theory needs to be explored

The Lackless box contains the moon
Theory needs to be explored

Denna and Kvothe will be on opposite sides during a war
Theory needs to be explored

Kvothe changes parts of his true name
Kvothe seems to lack his previous skills in sympathy and naming. It is mentioned by Elodin that one can change their true name. Need to find sources and perhaps expand on this theory further.

Bast is Kvothe's son
The ages of the are contradictory but can be explained by Bast living in the Fae, where time works differently.

Kvothe's True name is hidden away in the chest in his room
Guessing that Kvothe is speaking about himself in regards to the legend of The Chronicler in WMF C47

"if you have your name hidden away somewhere safe. The high king's name is written in a book of glass, hidden in a box of copper. And that box is locked away in a great iron chest where nobody can touch it."

Kvothe fell in love with princess Ariel
Guessing that Kvothe is speaking about himself in regards to the legend of The Chronicler in WMF C47; "He used to be a member of the king's court in Modeg," "But he fell in love with the high king's daughter."

Guessing that Ariel is Auri, this means that Auri is the one to call Kvothe Dulator.

There is magic in the Yllish knot
Guessing that Kvothe is speaking about himself in regards to the legend of The Chronicler in WMF C47; "He carries around a great book, and whatever he writes in that book becomes true."

"“What if someone told you they knew a type of magic that did more than that? A magic where you sort of wrote things down, and whatever you wrote became true?” She looked down nervously, her fingers tracing patterns on the tabletop. “Then, if someone saw the writing, even if they couldn’t read it, it would be true for them. They’d think a certain thing, or act a certain way depending on what the writing said.” She looked up at us again, her expression a strange mix of curiosity, hope, and uncertainty. The three of us looked at each other. Wilem shrugged. “Sounds a damn sight easier than alchemy,” Simmon said. “I’d rather do that than spend all day unbinding principles.” “Sounds like faerie-tale magic,” I said. “Storybook stuff that doesn’t really exist. I certainly never heard about anything like that at the University.” Denna looked down at the tabletop where her fingers still traced patterns against the wood. Her mouth was pursed slightly, her eyes distant."

Kvothe has Faerie blood in him
Guessing that Kvothe is speaking about himself in regards to the legend of The Chronicler in WMF C47

"He's got a bit of faerie blood in him, and it's made him sharper than a normal man."

Kvothe's ring of amber can control demons
Wil says: "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons"

Kvothe had a ring of amber.

Angels controlled the dreams of Nina
'Nina took a step closer. “I had dreams after you left,” she said, her voice low and confidential. “Bad dreams.

'But then I started sleeping with the amulet you gave me. I made my prayers every night, and the dreams went away'

Kvothe is an angel
https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/2szt6x/star_on_kvothes_forehead_spoilers_all/

"I could still see myself reflected in her eyes, the star on my forehead no more than a pinprick of light."

"Then the fire settled on their foreheads like silver stars and they became at once righteous and wise and terrible to behold."

Selithos is the Cthaeh
Theory needs to be explored

Denna is a denner addict
Comments has been made that Kvothe mentions her white teeth

https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/2sj0be/just_wondering_if_anyone_else_has_had_this_denna/

Bredon is Denna's patron
Theory needs to be explored

Cinder is Denna's patron
Theory needs to be explored

Denna might not have been physically beaten by her patron
https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/2sze4i/i_could_use_some_help_spoilers_all/

The Lackless box is made out of the same wood as the Cthaeh
Theory needs to be explored

Iax box is the Lackless box
Theory needs to be explored

The "Doors of stone" is the Waystones
Theory needs to be explored

The theory that Elodin is Taborlin
Theory needs to be explored

Fae are shapers, humans are knowers
Theory needs to be explored

The Maer is the Amyr
Theory needs to be explored

Ambrose is the King that gets killed
Theory needs to be explored

The Maer is the King that gets killed
Theory needs to be explored

Vashet's poet king, Roderic Calanthis, is the one that gets killed
Theory needs to be explored

The Chandarian isn't evil
Theory needs to be explored

Tinkers are Fae
Theory needs to be explored

The Ruh are the original Singers/Angels/Thal
What is kind of contradicting this is the story of the old beggar in WMF

Theory needs to be explored

"Ruach" is the origin of "Ruh"
Theory needs to be explored

The "Edema Ruh" is related to "Adem" and "Ruach"
Theory needs to be explored

The Angels are the singers
Theory needs to be explored

The Singers are the Thal
Theory needs to be explored

The folding house of Iax is an analogy of the Faen realm
Theory needs to be explored

Skarpi is a namer
Theory needs to be explored

Copper doesn't have a name?
Theory needs to be explored

Kvothe's nameless ring is made of copper
Theory needs to be explored

The scale armour of Lanre/Haliax is draccus scales
Theory needs to be explored

Denna is one of the angels
Theory needs to be explored

Random bits of text...
Master Lorren is of the Amyr

Master Lorren is of the Adem somehow, always having a blank expression.

Kvothe can't die and is therefore a "man waiting to die"

Kvothe might have been saved my the angels during his fight with the bandits. https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/2s91c8/spoilers_wmf_as_above_so_below/

The Cthaeh can lie.. " Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart." <- Seems like untrue statements

The chethae says the Chandrian killed his troupe

Info about the timeline seems contradictory for the chronicler having heard about Kvothe in the university. https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/2sv8wb/timeline_issues/

“Valaritas was the name of an old dead king. His tomb was behind the door.”

Different spelling of chandarian: Chaendrian

Something's up with Daeonica...

En Temerant Voistra, mentioned in WMF

"Vorfelan Rhinata Morie were chiseled into the stone above the massive stone doors." "It wasn’t Siaru . . . maybe Yllish, or Temic. Yet another question I needed answers for."

Auri made the candle she gave to Kvothe.

Blinking once:

"Listen three times, Bast" Bast blinked once and nodded. “Who was the greatest man who ever lived?” Another unfamiliar question. I thought for a minute. “Illien.” Master Lorren blinked once, expressionless. It was mentioned later that Lorren was unsettled

"Master Lorren turned to look in my direction, blinking once." "...son of Arliden"

Wasn't it mentioned in LT that Crazy Martin was just a bit crazy, because he was making spirits with the barley?

Bindings are always muttered; "The innkeeper looked down and muttered something incomprehensible."

Just guessing on Kvothes part perhaps, but when Fela is meeting him in the Archives third person non-limited viewpoint, which is weird. Clashes with the rest of the narrative?

The next day Fela skipped her lecture on Advanced Geometries and made her way to the Archives. She climbed down several flights of stairs and through a maze of corridors and shelves to find the only section of stone wall in the entire building that wasn’t lined with books. The four-plate door stood there, silent and immobile as a mountain: Valaritas. Fela looked around nervously, shifting her weight from foot to foot. After a long moment, a hooded figure stepped out of the dark and into the ruddy light of her hand lamp.

Kvothe, wrapping two versions of himself, within a larger whole.

One story goes towards darkness, the other towards happiness?

Autumn, a time for things die. Winter, a time for things to rest. Spring... The autumn is mentioned several times. It is said it is a time for things to die. As is the light of dawn, of new beginnings.

"The sword shone with the knowledge that dawn was a small beginning compared to the ending of a season: the ending of a year."

Kvothe destroys the bottle via a sympathic link from the rag to a bottle.

“You know, tidy them up?” “Anpauen. No.” Anpauen = God?

Temic through half a mouthful of stew. “Tehus antausa eha!” Bast burst into startled laughter and made an obscene gesture with one hand. Kote swallowed and changed languages. “Aroi te denna-leyan!”

The skin dance:

“Aethin tseh cthystoi scthaiven vei.”

“Te varaiyn aroi Seathaloi vei mela,”

“Te aithiyn Seathaloi?” he demanded. “Te Rhintae?”, Knowers and shapers? Selithos

Is there a language of the namers? Is Temic related to this?

Kvothe is "a little fae around the edges." acc deoch

Denna has fae in her: my mind hardly attending to what was coming out of my mouth. “There’s much of the fae in you as well.”

"So I picked a name for her, Auri. Though in my heart I thought of her as my little moon-fey." Auri is refered almost with the exact same phrase that she is a moon-fey

What's up with Cealdar?

Ivare Enim Euge which roughly translates as ‘for the greater good.’

Hell is mentioned several times.

Kvothe mentioned Ambroses name without having been told what his name was.

the tehlin priest in treaban had silver scales

“Why do we stop at the waystones?” “Tradition mostly. But some people say they marked old roads—” My father’s voice changed and became Ben’s voice, “—safe roads. Sometimes roads to safe places, sometimes safe roads leading into danger.” Ben held one hand out to it, as if feeling the warmth of a fire. “But there is a power in them. Only a fool would deny that.” Then Ben was no longer there, and there was not one standing stone, but many. More than I had ever seen in one place before. They formed a double circle around me. One stone was set across the top of two others, forming a huge arch with thick shadow underneath. I reached out to touch it. . . ."; The door, mentioned  when they look stuff up in the archives.

kvothe felt the angels when he met the chandarian: A feeling of being watched pulled at my attention. I felt a tenseness, a subtle change in the texture of the air. I focused on it, glad for the distraction, glad for anything that might keep me from thinking clearly for just a few more seconds. “They come,” Haliax said quietly. He stood, and shadow seemed to boil outward from him like a dark fog. “Quickly.To me.” The others rose from their seats around the fire. Cinder scrambled to his feet and staggered a half dozen steps toward the fire. Haliax spread his arms and the shadow surrounding him bloomed like a flower unfolding. Then, each of the others turned with a studied ease and took a step toward Haliax, into the shadow surrounding him. But as their feet came down they slowed, and gently, as if they were made of sand with wind blowing across them, they faded away. Only Cinder looked back, a hint of anger in his nightmare eyes. Then they were gone.

This line.. “You are Kvothe.” The man who called himself Kote looked up from behind his bottles. A full-lipped smile played about his mouth. A spark was kindling behind his eyes. He seemed taller. “Yes, I suppose I am,” Kvothe said, and his voice had iron in it."

Kvothe had gone looking for his heart’s desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it. I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it.This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.

"His right hand, tangled in a clean white cloth, made a slow fist. Eight inches away a bottle shattered. The smell of strawberries filled the air alongside the sound of splintering glass."

"All the scars were smooth and silver except one."

"Nothing but ash and cinder remained from the morning’s fire."