The kingkiller chronicle
| Title | The kingkiller chronicle
The name of the wind |
|---|---|
| Author | Patrick Rothfuss |
| Publication | Daw |
| Size | 722p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780756404741 |
| Topics |
American fiction--Fantasy |
| Notes | The series is telling the autobiography of Kvothe, an adventurer and famous musician. At the very beginning, the reader hears an old story-teller speaking of a famous old wizard called Taborlin the Great, who was captured by evil beings called the Chandrian. Escaping them, Taborlin fell from a great height - but since he knew the Name of the Wind, he called it and the Wind came and set him down safely. In later parts of the book, characters are often skeptical of such stories. Some kinds of magic are taught in The University as an academic discipline and have daily life applications (those who can afford it could buy magical lamps, much better than the candles used by poorer people). However, it is doubted that magicians can truly call upon The Wind, and the Chandrian - whose appearance is supposedly heralded by flames turning blue - are often dismissed as mythical bogeymen. The story begins in the rural town of Newarre, introducing the innkeeper Kote and his assistant Bast, revealing that Kote is the renowned Kvothe: an unequaled sword fighter, magician, and musician, rumored to have killed a king and caused the present war. His assistant and student Bast is a prince of the Fae. Kvothe saves Chronicler, a traveling scribe, from spider-like creatures called Scrael, whereupon Chronicler asks to record Kvothe's story. Upon consenting, Kvothe tells Chronicler that this will take three days (corresponding to the planned trilogy of novels). [wikipedia] |
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