She had been hired to perform at the wedding. There, he learns that Denna is the sole survivor of the attack. When Kvothe learns of an attack on a wedding seventy miles to the north, he heads out to discover what happened.
Kvothe is less successful in his attempts to romance Denna, who shows up in town. He becomes famous for the beauty of his music. Kvothe begins playing the lute at a local pub. Kvothe also befriends a pretty girl named Auri, who has taken to living beneath the University and its town in the Underthing, an elaborate network of tunnels and ruins from previous centuries. He becomes friends with Wilem, Manet, Sovoy, and Simmon, while becoming enemies with Ambrose, a member of the nobility. At University, Kvothe works hard to gain admission. On the way, he meets a stunningly beautiful girl about his age named Denna, who is a traveling musician. By the age of fifteen, he decides he must solve the mystery of the troupe’s murder.
Kvothe, heartbroken, takes to living on the streets. Abenthy eventually leaves the troupe for a young woman, and Kvothe himself narrowly misses a mysterious attack on the troupe by the Chandrian demons who massacre everyone –including Kvothe’s parents.
He begins to teach these techniques to Kvothe. He has the ability to control matter and nature through the practice of speaking, or name-calling. Abenthy, as an arcanist, is akin to a magician. The troupe takes on an arcanist, Ben Abenthy, who earns his keep by providing medicines and other similar services. Kvothe’s parents are musicians, who are well-respected for their songs. Kvothe is a child among the Edema Ruh, the class of traveling performers made up of countless troupes. Each day forms a book in Rothfuss' trilogy. With a little urging, Kvothe agrees to tell the story of his life to Chronicler.
Meanwhile, Devan Lochees, a famous writer and story collector known as Chronicler, comes to the Inn to see if Kote is actually Kvothe. Only a few locals who regularly gather at the Inn are aware of them. When the novel begins, demon spiders have been encountered near the Waystone Inn. The book forms the first of the three parts of Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicle. The Name of the Wind is an epic fantasy by Patrick Rothfuss in which the legendary hero Kvothe, now in hiding as Waystone Inn owner Kote, recounts his past experiences to Chronicler, a story collector. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Rothfuss, Patrick.
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