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Butterflies

We cannot wrap up the Fae without talking about the butterflies. If the bioluminescent moths are the magical stuff of the Mael, then their butterfly cousins should be redolent of light magic. What might happen if one of Felurians butterflies made it through the door stones into mortal? How about the same question with one of cthaeh's! I think that there is a link between the Cthaehs butterflies and his words as there seems to be a ceremony taking place during Kvothes encounter with the sacrificial butterfly being chosen by it's colour to answer questions on a specific subject. Each colour pertains to a different field of inquiry. The red one at the start is Kvothe himself and so by dissecting it, Cthaeh can see ten feet through him which is five feet per wing.
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The Oracle

8 ~ The Oracle If Aleph knows the names of all things, Cthaeh knows the shape of all futures. The Tree of Knowledge I swear it on my tongue and teeth. I swear it on the doors of stone . I’m telling you three thousand times. There is nothing in my world or yours more dangerous than the Cthaeh.  So then… The Cthaeh… Interesting name, and it’s not a small name. It tells to us about itself. ‘Do not try to pin me with small names. I am Cthaeh. I am. I see. I know… At times I speak.’ Whilst we should all agree on that emphatic statement, we do need to ask ourselves the question ‘What exactly does it do?’ Well, it is a seer. It sees the future… all futures apparently, and it can see them all perfectly. Now, Perfectly would imply it is therefore a creature of the shapers, because all things the shapers made were created to be perfect too. The whole of Fae was created to be perfect and every tree, every butterfly, every blade of grass, and every grain of sand was made especially to be there...
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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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