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exodus

When examining the Lockless box, Kvothe guesses it's age to be about 3000 years old and Meluan appears to agree with his estimate. Assuming they are both close to the truth That then gives us an approximation as to the date of Tehlu Day and the age of the 4Corners both. Shaped ware does not corrode, not even a tiny bit which indicates to me that any 'carving' on it will appear exactly the same as the day it was made, implying it's not carved at all since tools don't exist that could do this. taking a brass rubbing to highlight the pattern would be my next step but I'm not there so we shall never know. If Kvothe's guess about iron  copper in the wood is also correct hints at these names being 2/3 of it's total long name composition. But a lot of folk have suggested that copper does not have a name which would act as a very secure way of making sure it stays shut.  Perhaps one of the words forsworn is the name of copper. The lock them could never be opened...
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L and L close

7 ~ Unraveling  The secrets of House Lockless are hidden within two riddle rhymes and seven things will likely take at least three tricky chapters to unlock. Warning: things are becoming complex now and Relar level thinking will be required. Some problems like the door are pretty easy, others like the rings are less so. The whole may be impossible to crack without a third book of clues to help us and a seven fold binding was beyond even Kvothe. Still, we can but try To differentiate between the two songs more easily it is common practice to name the first chant the girls song and the second chant the boys song. In the girls song the focus is upon the Lady Perial Lockless herself and it tells us something we didn't know before in that she has acquired a husband since we last saw her. She was unmarried when she gave birth to Menda and so any marriage must have taken place after her firstborn son had left home and probably happened some time after Tehlu Day. This union should have ma...
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scrap

7 ~ Unraveling  The secrets of House Lockless are hidden within two riddle rhymes and seven things will likely take many more pages to unlock. Some like the door are pretty easy, others like the rings are less so. A few , such as candles, may be impossible to crack without a third book of clues to help us. Still, we can but try. To differentiate between the two songs more easily it is common practice to name the first chant the girls song and the second chant the boys song. In the girls song the focus is upon the Lady Perial Lockless herself and it tells us something we didn't know before in that she has acquired a husband since we last saw her. She was unmarried when she gave birth to Menda and so any marriage must have taken place after her firstborn son had left home and probably happened after Tehlu Day. This union would have made her husband the new Lord Lockless by default which really ought to have given him a half share in the running of the Lockless family estates. That m...
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