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darkhouse

Darkhouse is imho the most interesting aspect of the undething. Whilst all the layers that combine to create Belen are horizontal, Darkhouse is a vertical space.  Rotunda. Quote: "We moved through several twisting hallways and down again using a stone spiral staircase...After about 50 steps the wide, spiralling staircase disappeared into a vast rolling pool of black water  Clinks is private. No rot or foulness. Clear water at the water table. The steps once went lower ... In srost, we are told Auri was in her own nest of rooms on Sub 1 looking for suitable bottles. Not finding one  she walked through a doorway before she 'twisted up through withy'. Which I assume to be like wooden scaffolding or tree even which allows her to rise closer to the surface. This path should take her up to the top of the underthing where she can also gain access to our Darkhouse staircase. 'she took the spiralling stairs through Darkhouse, down and around, down and around. ' before she f...
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OutLines

3 ~ Outlines Downhill ‘So same can the humble thrush well know it’s north.’ The university campus is where most of our action takes place and it is now time to move back above ground to draw a more useful map for new students to navigate by. Pat has already drawn his, and there is a tantalising fragment, deliberately cropped imho, available to see on the blackboard behind him in [this hyperlink]  early publicity photo. However, Pat enjoys a good laugh and the first thing that most folk would assume is that this map has North at the top. But it doesn’t. North is at the bottom! The object of this exercise is to redraw the chalkmap and fill in the important but sadly lacking buildings of Mains, Mews and of the many chimbleyed Alchemists complex which they call the Crucible. This might get messy again at times but it should all come together eventually to form a satisfactory map if we just lay all the little clues out clearly into three piles so as to bui...
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Sub-Ordination span

Sub-Ordination 1 ~ Subordination . We know there are six upper floors to the archives, but they are actually very boring. Books! Books! Books! Nothing but books. But when Kvothe first takes his candle int othe stacks he discovers that the staircases lead down as well as up, and downstairs are where the real secrets lie. This is going to tie quite a few pieces together as we begin to map everything underthing, a daunting project which needs to be approached carefully. As far as the underarchive goes I have found three useful pieces of information to work a new triangle with, how traditional. Firstly, Puppet’s lair is found on Sub-Three. Secondly, The 4-plate door is located on the floor above Puppet, making it Sub-Two. Furthermore we are told ‘We have 1000 years of court documents from a hundred different cities squirrelled away down in Sub-two, whole rooms full…’ giving us some chronology to go by too. Thirdly, there is a passing mention of something ca...
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Game pieces span

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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