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** Kvothe, of course, is ridiculously GenreSavvy, thanks to a childhood spent with master performers and storytellers.
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** Kvothe, of course, is ridiculously GenreSavvy, thanks to a childhood spent with master performers and storytellers. The narrative frequently notes when he's basing his behavior on characters or plots that he's familiar with.
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* UnreliableNarrator:
** Kvothe is called out on this by Bast, in the middle of the story no less.
--->'''Bast:''' All the women in your story are beautiful. I can't gainsay you as a whole, as I've never seen any of them. But this one [Denna] I did see. Her nose was a little crooked. And if we're being honest here, her face was a little narrow for my taste. She wasn't a perfect beauty by any means, Reshi.
** Could be applied to the book as a whole. Kvothe is quite open about the fact that he lies and cheats whenever it suits his goals. One of his goals was to become a hero of legend, and aggrandizing his own past in the "official" version would suit that nicely. Many events play out as "I was smarter than everyone else and they were all really impressed."
** Kvothe is called out on this by Bast, in the middle of the story no less.
--->'''Bast:''' All the women in your story are beautiful. I can't gainsay you as a whole, as I've never seen any of them. But this one [Denna] I did see. Her nose was a little crooked. And if we're being honest here, her face was a little narrow for my taste. She wasn't a perfect beauty by any means, Reshi.
** Could be applied to the book as a whole. Kvothe is quite open about the fact that he lies and cheats whenever it suits his goals. One of his goals was to become a hero of legend, and aggrandizing his own past in the "official" version would suit that nicely. Many events play out as "I was smarter than everyone else and they were all really impressed."
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* UnreliableNarrator:
**UnreliableNarrator: After Kvothe is called out lavishes praise on this by Bast, in the middle beauty of the story no less.
--->'''Bast:''' All the women in your story are beautiful. I can't gainsay you as a whole, as I've never seen any of them. But this one [Denna] I did see. Her nose was a little crooked. And if we're being honest here, her face was a little narrow for my taste. SheDenna, Bast objects, asserting that she wasn't a perfect beauty by any means, Reshi.
** Could be appliedas flawless as he seems to the book as a whole. indicate. Kvothe is quite open about the fact insists that he lies and cheats whenever it suits she was flawlessly beautiful ''to him,'' so that's the way his goals. One of his goals was to become a hero of legend, and aggrandizing his own past in the "official" version would suit that nicely. Many events play out as "I was smarter than everyone story will go. It's unclear how much else and they were all really impressed."in Kvothe's story is warped through his biases or motives.
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--->'''Bast:''' All the women in your story are beautiful. I can't gainsay you as a whole, as I've never seen any of them. But this one [Denna] I did see. Her nose was a little crooked. And if we're being honest here, her face was a little narrow for my taste. She
** Could be applied
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In early editions, when Kvothe takes his University entrance exam, Brandeur, Master Arithmetician, asks the following:
-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle. One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between the two sides?\\
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet six inches. Dead even.
[[indent:20:Except that the answer is actually the square root of 37, which is around 6.082. This passage was eventually corrected.]]
-->'''Kvothe:''' Six feet and an inch. ''[beat]'' Well, almost an inch.
-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle. One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between the two sides?\\
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet six inches. Dead even.
[[indent:20:Except that the answer is actually the square root of 37, which is around 6.082. This passage was eventually corrected.]]
-->'''Kvothe:''' Six feet and an inch. ''[beat]'' Well, almost an inch.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In early editions, when Kvothe takes his University entrance exam, Brandeur, Master Arithmetician, Brandeur asks for the following:
-->'''Brandeur:''' You havehypotenuse of a triangle. One side is triangle with sides measuring three and seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
'''Kvothe:''' Is thefeet, with a sixty-degree angle between the two sides?\\
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Sixthem. Kvothe answers "Six feet six inches. Dead even.
[[indent:20:Except that theeven," which is incorrect. The real answer is actually the square root of 37, which is around 6.082. This passage was eventually corrected.]]
-->'''Kvothe:''' SixIn later editions, Kvothe says, "Six feet and an inch. ''[beat]'' Well, inch," before clarifying, "Well, almost an inch."
-->'''Brandeur:''' You have
'''Kvothe:''' Is the
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six
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-->'''Kvothe:''' Six
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* StudentDebtPlot: The protagonist Kvothe starts out as a penniless urchin and finds that [[WizardingSchool the University]] doesn't issue loans, forcing him to get tuition money from a black-market LoanShark. Her real goal is to [[YouOweMe force him to sneak her into the University archives]], but he's able to repay her in cash with some ingenuity and plenty of TripleShifter work.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: As referenced in the [[TitleDrop title]].
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* IKnowYourTrueName: As referenced IAteWhat: PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:Denna]] realizes that the maple candy she's been munching on is actually denner resin, a dangerous and ruinously addictive drug. She has to swallow burnt wood to neutralize the worst of it, suffers poisoning symptoms overnight, and gets far away in the [[TitleDrop title]].morning before the resin's owner comes looking for it.
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-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle. One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between the two sides?\\
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet and an inch. ''[beat]'' Well, almost an inch.
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between the two sides?\\
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet and an inch. ''[beat]'' Well, almost an inch.
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'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between the two sides?\\
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:'''
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-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle." he said slowly. One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
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-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle." he said slowly. One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
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Brandeur: ''[nods]''\\
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In early editions, when Kvothe takes his University entrance exam, the mathematics master asks for the length of the third side of a triangle with a sixty-degree angle between sides of 3 feet and 7 feet. Kvothe's answer, "Six feet six inches, dead even", is accepted as correct... except that the answer is actually the square root of 37, which is slightly less than six foot one inch. Even given that he's doing it in his head, he really should have known the answer was closer to 6 feet than 6.5 feet. Since the square root of 37 is irrational, there's no possible way for "six feet six inches" to be exactly correct, unless they use some strange sort of inch that's an irrational multiple of a foot. This passage was eventually corrected.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In early editions, when Kvothe takes his University entrance exam, the mathematics master Brandeur, Master Arithmetician, asks for the length of the third following:
-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle." he said slowly. One sideof a triangle with a sixty-degree is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle betweensides of 3 feet and 7 feet. Kvothe's answer, "Six the two sides?\\
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet sixinches, dead even", is accepted as correct... except inches. Dead even.
[[indent:20:Except that the answer is actually the square root of 37, which isslightly less than six foot one inch. Even given that he's doing it in his head, he really should have known the answer was closer to 6 feet than around 6.5 feet. Since the square root of 37 is irrational, there's no possible way for "six feet six inches" to be exactly correct, unless they use some strange sort of inch that's an irrational multiple of a foot.082. This passage was eventually corrected.]]
-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle. One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between the two sides?\\
Brandeur: ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet and an inch. ''[beat]'' Well, almost an inch.
-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle." he said slowly. One side
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between
'''Brandeur:''' ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet six
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-->'''Brandeur:''' You have a triangle. One side is seven feet. Another side, three feet. One angle is sixty degrees. How long is the other side?\\
'''Kvothe:''' Is the angle between the two sides?\\
Brandeur: ''[nods]''\\
'''Kvothe:''' Six feet and an inch. ''[beat]'' Well, almost an inch.
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* BittersweetEnding: Summed up near the end by Kvothe himself: "Prince Gallant kills the dragon but [[spoiler: loses the girl and the treasure]]." Then again, this is only the beginning of the trilogy.
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* BittersweetEnding: Summed up near the end by Kvothe himself: "Prince discusses an in-universe story which has such an ending, which foreshadows that his own story will be the same.
-->'''Denna:''' You left before you could finish your last [story]. I was terribly disappointed that I missed the end. Distraught, in fact.\\
'''Kvothe:''' Oh it's just the same thing you've heard before a hundred times before. Prince Gallant kills the dragon but[[spoiler: loses the girl treasure and the treasure]]." Then again, this is only girl.\\
'''Denna:''' Ah, a tragedy. Not thebeginning ending I'd hoped for, but no more than I expected, I suppose.\\
'''Kvothe:''' It would be something ofthe trilogy.a tragedy if it stopped there. But it depends on how you look at it, really. I prefer to think of it as a story that's waiting for an appropriately uplifting sequel.
-->'''Denna:''' You left before you could finish your last [story]. I was terribly disappointed that I missed the end. Distraught, in fact.\\
'''Kvothe:''' Oh it's just the same thing you've heard before a hundred times before. Prince Gallant kills the dragon but
'''Denna:''' Ah, a tragedy. Not the
'''Kvothe:''' It would be something of
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* SingleTargetSexuality: Despite impressing every music-loving female in Imre with his singing and playing, as well as personally saving the life of a buxom girl and being an all-around charmer besides, Kvothe is hopelessly infatuated with Denna, causing him to be [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to others' interest]].
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* BecomingTheMask: Bast is afraid that this is happening to Kvothe, in a way that humans can't really even grasp. He even describes it in terms of masks to Chronicler.
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* BecomingTheMask: Bast is afraid that this is happening to Kvothe, in a way that humans can't really even grasp. He even describes it grasp.
-->'''Bast:''' Have you seen ''The Ghost and the Goosegirl'' or ''The Ha'penny King''?\\
'''Chronicler:''' Is that the one where the king sells his crown to an orphan boy?\\
'''Bast:''' And the boy becomes a better king than the original. The goosegirl dresses like a countess and everyone is stunned by her grace and charm. ''[{{beat}}]'' You see, there's a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.\\
'''Chronicler:''' That's basic psychology. You dress a beggar interms fine clothes, people treat him like a noble, and he lives up to their expectations.\\
'''Bast:''' That's only the smallest piece ofmasks to Chronicler.it. The truth is deeper than that. It's… ''[flounders]'' It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
-->'''Bast:''' Have you seen ''The Ghost and the Goosegirl'' or ''The Ha'penny King''?\\
'''Chronicler:''' Is that the one where the king sells his crown to an orphan boy?\\
'''Bast:''' And the boy becomes a better king than the original. The goosegirl dresses like a countess and everyone is stunned by her grace and charm. ''[{{beat}}]'' You see, there's a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.\\
'''Chronicler:''' That's basic psychology. You dress a beggar in
'''Bast:''' That's only the smallest piece of
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* CircusBrat: Kvothe grew up in a traveling theater troupe, which is pretty close.
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* CircusBrat: Kvothe grew up in a traveling theater troupe, which is pretty close.troupe.
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* FunetikAksent: Kvothe and Denna meet a pig farmer with a thick rural accent.
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* FunetikAksent: Kvothe and Denna meet a pig farmer with a thick rural accent. They affect the same accent to ingratiate themselves with him.
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* IHaveManyNames: Kvothe lists a few of them off near the start of the story.
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* WordsCanBreakMyBones: The right names can.
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* FunetikAksent: Talking to the pig farmer with Denna.
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* FunetikAksent: Talking to the Kvothe and Denna meet a pig farmer with Denna. a thick rural accent.
-->'''Pig farmer:''' Hulloo! Dain't be afeerd. Tae wain't baet.\\
'''Kvothe's narration:''' [H]is accent so thick and oily you could almost taste it. My mother referred to it as a deep valley accent since you only found them in towns that didn't have much contact with the outside world. Even in small rural towns like Trebon, folk didn't have much of an accent these days. Living in Tarbean and Ime for so long, I hadn't heard a dialect this thick in years. The fellow must have grown up in a truly remote location, probably tucked far back into the mountains.
-->'''Pig farmer:''' Hulloo! Dain't be afeerd. Tae wain't baet.\\
'''Kvothe's narration:''' [H]is accent so thick and oily you could almost taste it. My mother referred to it as a deep valley accent since you only found them in towns that didn't have much contact with the outside world. Even in small rural towns like Trebon, folk didn't have much of an accent these days. Living in Tarbean and Ime for so long, I hadn't heard a dialect this thick in years. The fellow must have grown up in a truly remote location, probably tucked far back into the mountains.
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* OverlyLongName:
-->'''Schiem:''' Moi name es Skoivan Schiemmelptenneg.\\
'''Kvothe:''' Yeh've got name enough far a keng. Would yeh be turible offenced if'n Oi pared et down tae Schiem?\\
'''Schiem:''' All moi friends dae. Schiem'll do foin fur loovlie young folk loik yusselfs.
-->'''Schiem:''' Moi name es Skoivan Schiemmelptenneg.\\
'''Kvothe:''' Yeh've got name enough far a keng. Would yeh be turible offenced if'n Oi pared et down tae Schiem?\\
'''Schiem:''' All moi friends dae. Schiem'll do foin fur loovlie young folk loik yusselfs.
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** Kvothe is called out on this by Bast, in the middle of the story no less, telling his master that all the women in his story are beautiful when in fact, that's impossible to happen. Bast even remarks that Denna had a crooked nose.
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** Kvothe is called out on this by Bast, in the middle of the story no less, telling his master that all less.
--->'''Bast:''' All the women inhis your story are beautiful when in fact, that's impossible to happen. Bast even remarks that Denna had beautiful. I can't gainsay you as a crooked nose.whole, as I've never seen any of them. But this one [Denna] I did see. Her nose was a little crooked. And if we're being honest here, her face was a little narrow for my taste. She wasn't a perfect beauty by any means, Reshi.
--->'''Bast:''' All the women in
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** '"I never spoil pages," Chronicler said haughtily.' (His reply to "I'll bet you don't spoil many pages.", and right after: "How fast can you write?" "Faster than a man can talk.")
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** '"I never spoil pages," Chronicler said haughtily.' (His reply to "I'll bet you don't spoil many pages.", and right after: "How is very good at what he does.
--->'''Kvothe:''' How fast can youwrite?" "Faster write?\\
'''Chronicler:''' Faster than a man can talk.")
--->'''Kvothe:''' How fast can you
'''Chronicler:''' Faster than a man can talk.
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* WokenUpAtAnUngodlyHour: Kvothe finds a SecretUndergroundPassage to get into [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything the Archives]] (which he got banned from) but he still needs help from a scribe to use it properly, which he has in his friend Fela. He's so excited at the prospect of using the Archives, that he goes to visit Fela in the female dorm (which men are banned from entering) in the middle of the night. Unsurprisingly, Fela is barely awake when she answers the door, and the situation is even more awkward than it would normally be since she SleepsInTheNude and is too drowsy to properly cover herself with a ModestyBedsheet, which gets Kvothe so [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] that he momentarily forgets what he came there to talk about. Then she also notices his clothes are dirty and torn up, reminding him that he didn't even bother to change his clothes that got damaged while exploring underground, and that's when he decides to just leave and talk to her properly the next morning.
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-->'''Bast:''' It wasn't even a ''good'' note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?
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-->'''Bast:''' It wasn't even a ''good'' note. 'If "If you are reading this I am probably dead.' " What sort of a note is that?
