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Lord and lady

Where next is to examine what we know of the world outside. Chronicler has an appointment with the Earl of Baeden-bryt in Treya who was appointed his title by the king.  Aaron is also off to Treya where he is considering 'fighting for his king and his country ' and taking the kings gold coin and joining the penitent kings army. Qed the penitantvkingbis a vintish king. The two army deserters we encounter have been through this process , have their vintish coin and are now wearing the kings colours of blue and white. Which are good enough colours for the decking out of foot soldiers whilst the royal guard of Maer Alveron wear heraldic colours which are just a more majestic version of the raw recruit tabards and this they are seen sporting sapphire and Ivory. That's close enough a match for me  QED Maer Alveron, aka the King of Vint is the king in question that is out raising an army today. He is still alive and is not the king Kvothe king killer killed. Of course it is possib...
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elir

1 ~ The Rising Sun. On the wall in Pat's office I imagine there to be a nice map of the Waystone Inn in all it's glory. Apart from it's aesthetic it is a useful device used by the writer so that he doesn't get confused one day and accidently have someone go through a door that isn't there or look through a window which doesn't exist to see the sun rising in the West. The Sun in Temerant rises in the East, just like it does in our world, although even finding the proof of that small assumption in a very big book took a lot longer to finally track down than it really should have.(spoiler pp.135) But find it I did and that gives us what we need to start mapping out this pub crawl and see if we cannot recreate Pat's clever map for ourselves. All the details necessary details are buried among the Waystone 's storyline. All of the subtle asides regarding the inn's general layout do, of course, correlate perfectly with each other into one unique answer of w...
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