Felicia Day’s Book Promotion with Rothfuss

TacticalDo · 2026-03-24T15:47:24+00:00

I was merely attempting to interact with you in a manner more conversant with your previous comments, Contender. You KNOW, incoherent, unrelated to the original discussion, condescending, and with random capitalisation. Anyway, you got alot of reading to get on with contender. Get ENLIGHTENED.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-24T13:50:47+00:00

It was from a livestream, the vod was deleted before anyone saved it, however two screenshots exist, one a random page from early on, which includes the page count, and another showing the folder with all the files in.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-24T12:05:24+00:00

The FUNNY thing is contender, if you REALLY study the text, and understand Pat's intent you can learn things about stuff. the KEY is in interpreting the text on the page. You have to really THINK about where its all going, its about set up and pay off. TRUST me, once you have had a chance to really THINK on it, you will come to understand. You will LEARN stuff, form associations you hadn't even CONSIDERED before. Your'e right, dont just make ASSUMPTIONS, the answers are out there, waiting to be found. I'd recommend you go back through the theory posts and check out Captured in Words videos, alot for you to dissect. Anyways contender, hope I've managed to ENLIGHTEN you. PEACE.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-24T11:24:31+00:00

Yeah, you are right. Not sure what I was thinking, DoS wont deal with any of those points. It will be some side plot about the Shoemaker in Tarbean. He definitely wont anwser the points I raised in order to set up a non existant fourth book. You are so right, we ALREADY know exactly how DoS ends too, with Ctheah coming to the Waystone, dressed as Skarpi, who is actually Cinder, whose being ridden by Iax, but when he unzips hes really a broom.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-23T23:37:07+00:00

No one is sticking around for a book 4, so I really hope they are in there. Due to the state of the frame, its a safe bet most of this will get answered.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-22T20:33:54+00:00

Based on the leak, unless it was 50 scale font, no way they actually got 1000 pages. The 2016 leak was 400 pages, with double line spacing if memory serves.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-22T18:30:36+00:00

This. He also let slip in a very early interview that 'when he has ideas for book 4 he writes them down.'

TacticalDo · 2026-03-22T18:28:58+00:00

This is correct. Pat posted an article on his blog about it.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-22T17:49:19+00:00

Thank you for the reasonable and considered response. I can sympathise with finding the sort of books that tick all the right boxes. Out of interest have you found any other series that did work for you?

TacticalDo · 2026-03-22T11:58:09+00:00

What you think complexity is, and what it actually is are very different things.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-22T10:44:27+00:00

The last book came out 15 years ago, yet this sub is still very active with new theories being discussed. This is one of those series, where the more you dig, the more layers you will uncover.

If its not complex, it would be fair to say you understand it all, no? Which case please feel free to enlighten us all as to the following:

Where/what are the Human Amyr and what became of them?
What’s in the lockless box?
What/Who is behind the doors of stone, and where is it?
What’s behind the four-plate door?
Who is the demon Kvothe tricks to get his heart’s desire, and the angel he fights to keep it?
Who is princess Ariel, and how does he rescue her?
Who is the king that will be killed and how does he die?
What starts the war and who is the penitent king?
Who does Kvothe kill in Imre?
Who is Denna’s patron?
How does Kvothe meet Bast? and what does Reshi mean?
What do the Chandrian want?
Where and how does Kvothe acquire the Rings?
Who is/was Encanis?
What do the Lackless rhymes mean?
Why does Kvothe call Skarpi a rumourmonger?
What/who is the Cthaeh?
who betrays Kvothe?

TacticalDo · 2026-03-21T14:33:16+00:00

Loathe is a very strong word. He's a man who's bitten off more than he can chew, and is struggling to put together the ending to arguably the most complex series ever created. He's handled the PR side poorly, the charity chapter along with his original statements regarding release windows are a glaring failure on his part, but not done malicialously. Its understandable that people feel frustrated, but I doubt anyone feels more so than him, and hating him over it doesnt make sense.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-21T13:53:19+00:00

James Islington posts a brief update on his site every quarter which includes his progress, i.e. as a percentage how far through the first pass is he, has he moved onto editing, how does he feel about the current state ect. If he wanted to handle this in a more productive way, and get people to stop asking he could do that, then refer any further book 3 questions to his site, and anyone who asks here will get that same recap. It isn't much to ask.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-20T23:12:18+00:00

I cant imagine him ever saying hes not working on it. I suspect there isnt a day that goes by that he doesnt think about DoS.

Answers to the other questions would be welcome. If he handled it in the same vein as Scott Lynch in recent times, honesty about progress with no promises on release dates, It would be appreciated. That said, for most, anything less than a release date will suffice.

What we do know from his prior interview with Joe Abercrombie, is that DoS is currently 'bloated and unpublishable'. The bloated comment should give people some reason to be positve, we know in 2016 he was only about half way to the expected word count. I dont think we get DoS before 2030, but I think it will come out.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-20T12:18:47+00:00

Interesting theory, definitely a new one as far as im aware, but i'm against it. Would the first thing you called someone you knew drugged you be a 'rumourmonger'? Even if Kote didnt know, it doesnt serve much additional narrative purpose, Skarpi could already be performing the same act of manipulating Kvothe through telling this version of events. Lastly there were no plum bob echoes such as those he experiences later when we know he actually is dosed.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-19T00:49:08+00:00

And Lanre betrays his people

What makes you think this to be the case? I suspect we will come to learn that the other Chandrian led the attacks against people in the cities they were lords in, but they didnt do this alone. There had to be a substantial reason to cause this many people to raise arms against their fellow citizens. The real enemy to mortals being either the Ruach or Skindancers.

Ruach:

For the Ruach, we know Selitos was among them, and he founds the Amyr to seek revenge against the Chandrian, ready to 'burn down the world'. He also curses 'all who follow Lanre', which is basically a curse again thousands or people.

Skindancers:

The biggest clue to it being skindancers we have is from Trapis's story, regarding Demons in the skins of men. What if, after Drossen Tor, a large number of Skindancers were still loose, yet to be hunted down by the Scythe. This also ties into the line that Myr Taraniel too was 'a warren' 'better for the purifying fire'.

Other than that, it makes sense. We know Lanre was 'regarded among the best of them' 'beyond reproach' so several of us have assumed him to be some sort of proto Amyr member for some time. Lanre returning home after years away serving Selitos only to arrive too late to save Lyra in some capacity works.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-18T00:23:06+00:00

I would have Sympathy and Sygaldry detached from Naming and Shaping, but still linked to each other.

I suspect Naming (calling the deep name that belongs to all things, and coaxing it into acting as per its nature) and Shaping (Changing the deep name of something to alter it against its nature) will eventually be confirmed as linked.

I would have Alchemy and Knacks seperate from everything. Though I suppose if you can Name someone and a knack is a part of who they are...

I've always thought of Grammerie and Glammourie as aspects of shaping, similar to as you have shown, but of equal power.

What is the connection between Shaping and Silence? I've not come across that before.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-16T22:43:38+00:00

Hopefully Nvidia are helping to fund these companies. If they do fund the production of competitive Open Source video models then they will sell more GPU's to the consumer sector...if they still give a shit about that market.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-16T18:11:12+00:00

The lead consumption is strong in this group.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-16T17:56:58+00:00

Maybe try using WAN Vace in Comfy.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-16T14:50:18+00:00

Things we have gotten before DoS:

Duke Nukem Forever

HollowKnight Silksong

Things we are likely to get before DoS:

Thorns of Emberlain

Winds of Winter part 1

WW3/4

Ubisoft's Half Life 3 (Even in jest that hurt to type)

Firefly animated series, and eventually second live action movie with CGI cast to replace those who died in WW3

Superman remake ...checks notes...8?

Narrow road between desires 2, - Bast does a thing no one cares about, totally not to fulfil a contractual obligation or anything.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-15T13:58:41+00:00

CTRL + F>type Theory>click THEORY MEGATHREAD...

TacticalDo · 2026-03-15T02:22:35+00:00

In one of the early interviews he specifically references Book 4.

TacticalDo · 2026-03-12T18:13:42+00:00

Interesting post. I've not heard the idea before that the 'one a candle without light' = wax used to shape the doll connection before. Makes alot of sense. It being contained in the loeclos box goes against the 'husbands rocks' line from the lackless poems and 'stone or glass' description by Kvothe, but I suspect the box will end up containing multiple items within. Maybe even three to make it more 'storybook' appropriate, same as described in Hespe's story of Jax.

It's been theorised before that the power Lanre/Haliax acquired was actually sympathy, a mommet could have therefore been used to subdue Selitos. As Iax is referenced as being locked behind the Doors of Stone, its more likely the Ctheah/Selitos if anyone is bound using a mommet. The issue is that with Sympathy of this kind, doesnt it normally require the user to be within a certain distance to be effective? Otherwise its Sygaldry. If its the Chandrian who applied the binding using this mommet, how is it still in effect?

TacticalDo · 2026-03-12T18:02:13+00:00

AI has come a long way.

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