Patrick Rothfuss Trivia

1. Throughout "The Name of the Wind" and "The Wise Man's Fear", how many lashes in total does Kvothe receive from the University?

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: 9

Kvothe is whipped on two occasions throughout the first two books. The first is three lashes for "reckless use of sympathy" charged by Master Hemme, the second is six lashes for malfeasance when he calls the name of the wind against Ambrose.

From Quiz The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Answer: A network of tunnels and disused rooms beneath the University

The University, located just across the river from the town of Imre, is a magical place -- literally. Students study a wide range of magical arts, from alchemy to naming to sympathy, and thus confront mysteries every day. So it's appropriate that the University is built atop a mystery: a vast, sprawling underground complex that encompasses both forgotten chambers and utility tunnels. No one at the University is quite comfortable underground, except for Auri, who has made it her piece the world. "The Underthing" is her name for it. It is her home, and her vocation.

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: Selas

Denna comments that all men have "read from the same book" and think roses are the only flower women want. Kvothe toys with calling her a dandelion but decides on the selas, a flower Denna has never seen. Denna tells Kvothe that the willow blossom matches him best.

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: The Mating Habits of the Common Draccus

"The Mating Habits of the Common Draccus" is mentioned a few times in the story. It's one of the first books Kvothe reads when he gets to University, and he borrows an updated version with engravings later on. "Rhetoric and Logic" is the book gifted to him by his first teacher, which serves as a letter of introduction to University.

From Quiz The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Answer: Kvothe

Here's a small snippet of how Kvothe describes himself in Patrick Rothfuss's 2007 novel: "My name is Kvothe .... I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me." "The Name of the Wind" and its sequel, "The Wise Man's Fear", are the first two parts of Kvothe's story, as told by Kvothe himself to a visiting chronicler. It's in those books that we meet Auri, one of Kvothe's most enigmatic and intriguing friends. They met irregularly by moonlight, Kvothe says; Kvothe would play music, and they would exchange mundane gifts made extraordinary by poetic descriptions. This book, "The Slow Regard of Silent Things", is a rare glimpse into that past world from the perspective of someone else.

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: 3

Kvothe plays a seven-stringed lute. He teaches himself to play with only six strings, then only five, but three broken strings are too much. This talent becomes important later in the book, when a rival breaks one of his strings during a performance and Kvothe is able to continue and finish playing.

From Quiz The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Answer: Mantle

In Mantle, everything is in order; everything is there for Auri. Here's how it looks to Auri, toward the beginning of the book: "She saw her perfect bed. Just her size. She checked her sitting chair. Her cedar box. Her tiny silver cup ... Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn't be." It's a safe place, a retreat, a mantle Auri can pull around herself for warmth and comfort.

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: Speaker

Vashet tells Kvothe that his name means "flame, and thunder, and broken tree." These three things not only describe his dealings with the bandits literally, but are also motifs throughout both novels.

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: twice

Kvothe's lute is first broken by Pike during a fight on Kvothe's first day in Tarbean. He eventually gets a replacement lute, but that is broken by Ambrose, which causes Kvothe to call the name of the wind without exactly knowing how to do so.

From Quiz The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Answer: A brass gear with a broken tooth

The pool of water is in a room called the Twelve, whose nature changes with the light. There are pipes in the pool, and other dangers, but treasures wash in and can be retrieved by a patient diver. On this finding day, Auri finds an armbone, a belt with a silver buckle, a twig with a snail as a passenger, a key, and a brass gear so heavy and awkward that she nearly drowns carrying it back up to the surface. But she doesn't let go. She is well rewarded, for this turns out to be a very special object: "It was full of true answers and love and hearthlight. It was beautiful."

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: performed pagan rituals

Kvothe learns from the Cthaeh that the Maer is close to the Amyr but we are not told in what way. From court gossip, Kvothe hears it is Lord Veston who was addicted to denner resin. While it is true that Bredon has been taking dance lessons, Kvothe learns this from Bredon himself, not through court gossip.

From Quiz Kvothe Quotes

Answer: "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere."

Kvothe was peppered with questions from all the Masters, and in the end he managed not only to prove his worthiness for admission, he also managed to convince them to let him come for free, and they actually gave him three Talents for expenses during his first term.

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: less three talents

After pleading with the masters that he only had two jots to his name and to give him three talents to afford room and board while he studied, the masters grant his request. Kvothe initially misunderstands, but Master Lorren explained as he accompanied Kvothe to explain the unusual "fee" to the bursar. The other answers are the tuitions given to Kvothe's friends that term: Willem was seven and eight, Simmon was five, and Manet was one and six.

From Quiz The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Answer: Nurturing the Underthing by placing objects where they will be most happy

For Auri, inanimate objects are anything but. Everything has some personality, some desire, some need that must be met if the Underthing is to be squared away. Take keys, for example, like the one she found in the pool: "Keys were hardly known for their complacency, and this one was near howling for a lock." Mostly Auri's work involves moving objects from one place to another, according to where she feels they will be most happy. (Never for her own use or pleasure; that would be selfish, a thought she finds viscerally revolting.) With everything in its proper place, a room feels right; with something just a little misplaced, the room feels subtly wrong to her, like a mistaken note in a harmony.

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: Naming

Kvothe uses sympathy to injure the bandits, break their bow strings, and draw the lightning to the large central tree. Using sympathy to harm other humans is the definition of malfeasance. Both Tempi and Shehyn refer to Kvothe's actions as being "blood magic". Although many of the tavern stories about this particular exploit refer to a "Taborlin the Great" style of magic, it is unarguably clear that Kvothe uses no names to defeat the bandits.

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: nahlrout

By taking the nahlrout Kvothe is able to take his lashes without crying out or without much blood, which is probably how he got the nickname "Kvothe the Bloodless". Kvothe is whipped twice in the book: three lashes for his "reckless use of sympathy" against Master Hemme and, later, six lashes for malfeasance against Ambrose.

From Quiz The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Answer: Naming each room

The key opens an oaken door leading off of Wains, an ornately decorated corridor blocked by rubble at both ends. Exploring this new terrain, Auri first passes through a nearly perfect sitting room that she will eventually name Annulet, then up a crumbling stairwell, then into a thoroughly disarrayed bedroom that she instantly calls Tumbrel. The stairwell's name is harder; that will take some time. She muses on the problem: "Some places had names. Some places changed, or they were shy about their names. Some places had no names at all, and that was always sad. It was one thing to be private. But to have no name at all? How horrible. How lonely ... she couldn't tell what sort of place this was. Shy or secret? Lost or lonely? A puzzling place. It made her grin all the wider."

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: The Sithe

"If anyone manages to come in contact with the Cthaeh, the Sithe kills them. They kill them from a half-mile off with their long horn bows. Then they leave the body to rot. If a crow so much as lands on the body, they kill it too." (Bast in "The Wise Man's Fear") Also, it is interesting to note that, after killing Kvothe's parents in "The Name of the Wind," Haliax rhetorically asks his companions, "Who keeps you safe from the Amyr, the Singers, the Sithe, from all that would harm you in the world?"

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: he used a lit candle to see

Ambrose tricks Kvothe into using a candle in the Archives, which is forbidden since it is filled with old books. Master Lorren bans Kvothe and the event sours their relationship. Eventually Kvothe finds a way to bypass the ban and sneak in through the underground passages.

From Quiz The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Answer: She takes it, and leaves another item in exchange

She trades lace for honeycomb, a silver bowl for a crock of olives, a piece of her now-broken gear for an eiderdown mattress. None of these trades are negotiated in any way, or anticipated by the other participant. Auri simply arrives, surveys, and makes the trade that feels right, whether she's in the basement of a busy inn or a just-excavated room that's been abandoned for decades. Sometimes no trade feels right. She often returns to a fine sheet in Tumbrel that she desperately covets, but only to leave it in place: it's happiest where it is.

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: the bone-tar spilled

The "bone-tar", Regium Ignaul Nerat, is heavier than air, corrosive and extremely volatile. When the entire canister spilled, Fela was trapped. The "Fishery" is slang for "Artificery" and has nothing to do with fish; most of the buildings in University are known by their nicknames. Fela is very grateful to Kvothe for saving her life, buying him a replacement cloak and helping in his illicit trips to the Archives.

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: Mandrag - Alchemy

Arwyl is the master physicker, Hemme teaches Rhetoric, and Brandeur is the master arithmetician. This information is mentioned during admissions exams in both "The Name of the Wind" and "The Wise Man's Fear".

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: magnetism

Kvothe uses sympathy, a lodenstone, and a scale from the draccus to magenetize the creature, which causes the large iron wheel from the Tehlin church to strike and kill the creature. Kvothe initially tries to poison the creature with denner resin, but the wheel is what finally killed the draccus. Unfortunately while Kvothe is recovering, the villagers burn and bury the "demon" that was killed, before Kvothe could salvage anything for trade or study.

From Quiz Kingkiller Chronicle: Day 1 and Day 2

Answer: Cinder

Shehyn tells Kvothe in "The Wise Man's Fear" that the Adem remember the names of the Rhinta, or Chandrian. According to them, one of these names is "Ferule chill and dark of eye." This matches Kvothe's description of Cinder. Furthermore, after Kvothe's parents are killed by the Chandrian in "The Name of the Wind", Haliax shows his power over Cinder by calling him Ferula, possibly his true name.

From Quiz What Happened in "The Name of the Wind"?

Answer: his shirt

The mercenary is wearing the blue shirt that he stole from Chronicler in the beginning of the book. It was a deep, royal blue that Chronicler had bought in Linwood and hadn't even worn yet. Bast believes that the mercenary was actually one of the Mahael-uret, a skin dancer, though he adds that it may be something else since it behaved a bit differently. But, as Bast says, "All snakes bite, Reshi. I don't need their names to know they're dangerous. I recognized it as being from the Mael. That was enough."

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