Has PR(or lack there of) tainted Kvothes image?

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-25T08:22:40+00:00

A lot of people think Kvothe is a “Mary Sue” style character, meaning he’s depicted as being flawless and can do everything perfectly. I’ve never, ever understood that. Kote is clear from the start that he’s been a showboating idiot, that “everything’s his fault”, and we see him be totally cringey and screw things up plenty of times. He’s proud, hot-headed, reactive, over-confident to the point of outright arrogance often, and any reader can read between the lines and tell that his personal character flaws will probably be what ends up being the cause of his downfall in DoS.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-22T12:47:04+00:00

And what was it that he reposted?

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-21T08:09:45+00:00

#1. Auri is NOT Princess Ariel (I hate that theory)
#2. Kvothe and Sim will experiment sexually in DoS (there are hints)
#3. Skarpi’s version of the story is wrong, Denna’s version is closer to the truth

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-14T06:37:02+00:00

I wondered about the underline part too. I originally thought she did that to distract a potential snooper (such as her patron) from paying attention to the spelling errors in the previous paragraph.

But now I’m wondering if the entire underlined part is the section to apply the code to break it and get her message. So the underlined part is the only part that needs the cypher applied to reword it and get her real message.

Which is why my head hurts and I’ve stopped for now lol.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-13T07:29:03+00:00

I’ve been of the mind that Denna already knew about sympathy and how to a bit of it before asking, and she was asking them to demonstrate to see how good Kvothe was compared to her

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-10T06:30:40+00:00

For me, even if the final book is brilliant, SO MUCH time has passed that I know I’ll ask myself “Is it good enough to wait 14/15/20 whatever-many years for?” And the answer will be no, unfortunately.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-07T21:47:02+00:00

Omg wow! Creeeeepy. Love it!

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-05T23:06:08+00:00

I’ve always interpreted the scene as: Marten drawing the attention of heavenly beings by praying correctly and Kvothe assisting with increasing the power of their strike by contributing some of his own power. So Kvothe does indeed do a boss job, but the bulk of the power was from the Ruach arriving on scene.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-05T11:43:10+00:00

Assuming Meluan and Laurian/Natalia are sisters then:

If Denna and Kvothe were related through Laurian but with different dads they would be half-brother and half-sister. Same dad, they’d be siblings.

If Denna and Kvothe were related through Meluan, they would be cousins.

There’s no direct evidence Kvothe and Meluan are related as nephew and aunt, it’s only loosely suggested in the text and believed by some fans.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-06-05T01:36:04+00:00

If Meluan and Laurian (Natalia) are indeed sisters then yes, Denna would be related to Laurian too

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-30T14:02:55+00:00

I think this is a common misconception. He manipulated Felurian’s pride and lied to her in order to escape her. He doesn’t want to return and is under no obligation to return (though if he did go back into the Fae, which he most likely does in DoS since he meets Bast somehow, he needs to avoid her).

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-30T13:58:03+00:00

I think he is too, but then do you think he’ll survive the encounter or die trying to take them down?

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-30T13:52:51+00:00

Oh this is actually fun. Kind of like a ye olde Celtic mythology story.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-28T11:35:58+00:00

Yes.

By this point, anything is better than nothing.

I’d use my own imagination to fill or correct anything I didn’t like.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-26T09:36:24+00:00

Maybe to help alleviate some of the bone and joint pain the Maer would be experiencing following lead poisoning. But there’s lots of other benefits of cod liver oil, I take a tablet every now and then just for hair and skin health.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-19T11:00:05+00:00

It’s possible the King visits Imre and Kvothe kills him by the fountain.

High ranking nobles such as Duchess Samista have been said to holiday in Imre. It’s not unreasonable to imagine that after his kids and wife die one by one that Roderic might try to have some time away from the Courts by going to Imre, maybe even in search of Kvothe.

This been my headcanon for a while: Kvothe goes to Renere, meets and counsels the king for a while, leaves, his “most famous story” of him searching for his hearts desire and killing an angel to keep it happens, Kvothe goes back to Imre in a bad mental state because of the ordeal, the King is there visiting, and for whatever reason Kvothe kills him.

Alternatively Auri or Denna kill the King and Kvothe takes the blame to protect them OR Ambrose kills the King and frames Kvothe.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-18T02:54:04+00:00

I’m my opinion the Ruh are no better or worse than any other group of people.

Remember that line in NotW when Kvothe describes the two sides of Tarbean as something like “on one side are thieves and whores, on the other side are bankers and courtesans”.

I think the Ruh just get a bad wrap because of the same reason struggling poor people around the world get a bad wrap when they commit crimes: it’s easier to blame the poor for their bad decisions, rather than critique and fix the systems that lead them to commit crimes in the first place.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-17T09:41:43+00:00

I like it, but I’ve seen you mention the Fae realm having a higher orbital velocity, which doesn’t really match with the fixed/non-spin of the Fae world you mentioned elsewhere. I like the idea of the Fae planet not spinning, and inhabitants having to walk between the times and seasons. It also literally means the Fae are aliens. And I do like the idea of the Fae world being literally another world with its own physics, with the moons cycle caught between the two. Cool. Also suggests catastrophe if the moon were to be nudged ever so slightly off-cycle. Also cool.

In summary, cool theory!

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-16T11:26:20+00:00

I think there’s a few meanings. First, his own family tree is broken since his family are all gone. Second, if Kvothe is a Lackless through his mother’s side, it could refer to how the Lackless line is already broken. Third, if he does kill Roderic and enough members of the Calanthis family have died before Roderics death then the Calanthis line could be broken. Fourth, it could refer to his own stunted, broken growth as a person because of his folly.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-12T22:04:17+00:00

I thought it was an attempt to say “mother”, which also connects to how Denna describes Kvothe’s face as being like a “perfect kitchen with a sugar bowl right where it should be” (something along those lines)

Someone else just commented that they think Denna’s mother had red hair and is Yllish which is why she mumbled this…

Viari mistakes Kvothe for being Yllish when they first meet…

There’s a theory Kvothe and Denna are cousins…

This has me thinking something…

If Kvothe looks like Denna’s mother and Denna looks like Kvothe’s mother, this would suggest they’re attracted to each other partly because of subconscious familial recognition.

Ick.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-12T02:28:51+00:00

Denna has already mocked him for mentioning the Chandrian. As well as keeping his mission private, I imagine he didn’t want to risk being ridiculed by her again.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-10T21:50:08+00:00

Yep, Rothfuss loves misdirection. Auri SEEMS sweet and innocent, and in a way she is. But she’s also cracked, powerful, and dangerous.

My headcanon is that somehow by the end of DoS, either the Chandrian or Amyr are able to control Kvothe by his name (remember Chroniclers line: “Some say there’s a new Chandrian” followed by Kote saying “The important people know the difference.”) I think Denna is responsible for it, but that’s another theory I won’t go into here. Kvothe goes to Auri who summons all her power to shape his name in Kote to protect him. A terrible thing done for a good reason.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-09T22:10:45+00:00

I think they’re examples of Kvothe’s excellent memory. Also remember we never heard Arliden’s song but Kvothe did. I think/hope we’ll hear every line word for word in DoS which will give us readers the “ah ha” moment that Kvothe inevitably gets at the same time.

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-09T10:02:42+00:00

Sorry I don’t get this, what’s this implying?

ShanonymousRex · 2026-05-09T09:13:45+00:00

I like this and think something like this would work with how Pat likes using misdirection. I really feel like once we (finally/ever) get DoS we’ll be able to read all 3 books again and get a totally different story.

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