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Myr T

3 ~ Myr T Myr Tariniel is an awkward name in my head, and translating it is a nightmare. It's got too many bits going on, too many syllables, too many edges, too many parts. Too many possibilities. The city itself might well bear it own 3 part name. But Myr Tariniel means something specific, obviously, we just don't know what.  It could well mean the Shining city.  But my jot is going on White Tower. We don't really need to map out Myr T, Skarpi does that for us 'Sit and listen for I will speak of the shining city as it once was, years and miles away...' That is an odd introduction. An announcement that almost sounds like an invocation, or legally binding declaration. He has chosen to offer his Talent bet to the unknown owner of the voice who called for a story about Myr Tariniel, but has also acknowledged that Kvothe would get his own answers, too. We can take much from Skarpi's tale, since we now know who he really is, and thus can treat his words with respect...
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TAK

Quite how gods play their games is beyond mortal ken. Pr You need an abstract mind to play a beautiful game. One man's love is another man's lust.  Imagine, if you can, two Gods the god of day and god of night. They watch over the world,one half at a time, and never the twain shall meet. The world in question is their gameboard and it has many squares and many stones. Their board is infinite and thus has Far too many components for the numbers to make any sense to us mere mortals. But for all the difference it is all the same, it's just a question of focus, and it's only a game after all. Now games have rules and in Tak the objective is to create a pathway of stones right across the board. It occurs to me that if our two gods were also playing Tak, which is the assumption upon with this whole piece rests, then there are some interesting opportunities to apply the same rules of Tak to the shape of the word that is the four corners. Superimpose the Tak board over the Map ...
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Dictum span

 1 ~ Tangles Dictum ‘Seven. You can hold to that with some certainty. It’s part of their name, actually. Chaen means Seven. Chaen-dian means “Seven of them”.Chandrian. Now Ben is university educated, and that is where he has learned a bit of ancient Temic, a language that predates ‘the old Tema that only priests know’ by a thousand years. But we should also remember that the university is Amyr run, and that they are at least as old as Thelu’s first priests and would also speak the old language of the world. Furthermore, nothing Amyr influenced should be taken at face value in these books, or indeed in their own books, and Dian is not Drian just as Chaen is not Chan. Inconsistancies indicate errors and given that Pat has stated that he poured an awful lot of time and thought into creating names for this language, and since Names Are Important, it is only fair that I do the same in order to decipher it back again, and I would expect things to be error free. The Chaendrian are a group...
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Blue

1 ~ Blue So what might be so special about this blue blood that I speculated upon in Primordial Soup then? Selitos is our main blue blooded example but his power was held to be in his ‘magical’ ability to look into the hearts of men and read them like heavy lettered books, and he was not alone… ‘In those days there were many who could do such things but Selitos was the most powerful namer of anyone alive in that age.’ I suggest then that this blue blood of the namers is in some way fundamentally different to the red blood of those without any such naming powers. Perhaps it has something to do with a Namer changing their own name? Elodin tells us that the original namers walked the streets like tiny goods and were obviosly far superior to their servants, the common folk and other serving men like foot soldiers. But could anybody become a namer or is this skill inherent only to certain bloodlines? and more importantly, can this power that blue bloods may possess be passed on biologically...
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