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Change is Coming

Small Change A history of the world part 3 A Vintish gold coin led us here but that's a lot of money to make change for out in the sticks as the two army deserters discovered and smalltown folk conduct their daily life around smaller coinage. Change is coming tho so it’s probably about time we started playing about with the lower denominations as well. Three pennies for wishing Kvothe deals with a traditional tinker on his way to the Eld and   the deal was sealed in the traditional way of doing deals. ‘I’ll give you a an iron penny, a copper penny and a silver penny.’ It was a pittance but that’s what tinkers in stories ask for when they trade some fabulous piece of magic to an unsuspecting widow’s son. This tradition is as old as the hills and universally recognised wherever tinkers travel. Even Taborlin used this method of payment for his magic amulet, if you believe the tales of Old Cob. Judging from the 10æ notes on currency that we are given, the ...
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Less 3 Talents

Less 3 Talents Talented individuals This is a study of the University admissions process. It is a follow up piece on to the chapter Big brother and should not be read without that primer for admissions tucked away somewhere in your head already. First up, Chancellor Herma asks Kvothe what he thinks he already knows and the list is extensive, Ben has taught his student well. He claims to know the first ninety sympathetic bindings which are necessary to answer Elxa Dal’s questions. He can double distill, perform titration, calcify sublimate and precipitate solution…which tells us he knows quite a lot about chemistry, which is master Mandrag’s bailwick. He also adds History (Lorren) argument (Hemme) grammar (Herma) medicine (Arwyll) and geometry (Brandeur). But he mentions nothing about artifice and nothing at all about naming, meaning that Kilvin and Elodin cannot expect him to answer questions about their own personal area of expertise. Kilvin notices this and thus realises that it woul...
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The Road to Newarre

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 the piece we need to start mapping out this pub crawl and see if we cannot recreate Pat's clever map for ourselves. All the 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 what...
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