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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 anyone become a namer or is this skill inherent only to certain bloodlines? and more importantly, can this power that these blue bloods possess able to be passed on biol...
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Tinker Tangle

Tinker Tangle Tinker Tangle I’ve been fretting about this one a bit, because I know I’m a leg short. This is Pie level and Pi is complicated… It is the first step between 3&4. It is where geometry starts to become trigonometry and where Triangels become pyramids, Oh well, onwards and upwards, tinker foil it is then… ‘A tinkers debt is always paid, Once for any simple trade, Twice for freely given aid, Thrice for any insult made. πΠπ There are two tinkers of major note encountered so far, Trebon tinker and Eld tinker. Ignore all the others for now, these two are the important ones we need to focus on today. The Trebon tinker is best considered using hindsight. First up, Kvothe was not looking to buy anything but would soon need to get rid of his horse, just as the tinker really needed to acquire one which was a happy coincidence. This is a trade where the tinker admits that he the is in need of aid most which puts him on the back foot in negotiations. Fortunately for him he just hap...
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Game pieces

1 ~ A-Gender . Welcome back, we have now pretty much mapped out the first Corner , but our storylines are starting to pull apart now, we have our Lockless family tree rooted in Newarre and our trunk rises from Vintas but now the choice of paths before us want to branch off in different directions at once, but we can only follow one path at a time and the wise student will follow The path of the Book before them. That is of the Lethani. We shall follow Kvothe's journey a little further then and investigate the Adem. They are probably the strangest of all the races of man that we encounter and they hold their secrets tightly. Stillness and silence are the heart of Ademre, something no barbarian could understand. Still, we can but try. Man Mothers When approaching a puzzle that goes against the grain, it is natural to adopt a guilty until proven innocent stance. But you must always remember that this is Fantasy Fiction, not Fantasy Fact. That's a whole different ball game. Therefo...
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