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Any Old Iron

Any Old Iron? Tehlu is said to have appeared to Perial as a being made entirely of fire or sunlight. This aligns to the same classical image that we see of him when he is displayed to the masses during the Seven days of high mourning in Tarbean. His opposite counterpart, Encanis, is similarly dressed to play the exact opposite part and so he appears to Kvothe in the colours of darkness and shadow. This simple analogy sums up the shape of the world at large with these two supreme powers representing the two ends of the monochrome spectrum that arcs between darkness and light and defines the difference between night and day. Everything else in the universe is naturally going to be lesser to these two semi-gods and will so be denoted by a lesser colour than these two extremes and will appear as a small speck coloured some neutral shade of grey, forever floating in between these dual paramiters of black and white. The Tehlin priesthood understand their station in life and so grey...
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Moving Mountains span

1 ~ How Old Archive Came To Be Now, despite all of the comparisons made to one, the Archive is not a solid block of grey stone as a waystone undoubtedly is. Yet nor is it exactly a hollow stone egg either, and so we ought to best think of it as being like a perfectly formed termite mound, in that it is honeycombed with many hidden passages and cavernous chambers, dotted throughout like lots of little pockets. Above ground these windowless walls house six stone floors and therefore six high ceilings which provide storage for thousands of books on miles of bookshelves that line all of it’s countless corridors. It also has hidden reading rooms, assorted offices and diverse departments for all the industrious scrivs and there are also lots of staircases, both up and down, to knit everywhere together in perfect secrecy behind the only ingress of the two massive stone doors. And every single inch of it, every wall and floor and step and door is all made out of same, solid, seamless grey ston...
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Chapterhouse

The Path of the Book By Matty Tangle Introduction:  What Have I Got in My Pocket? Span One: Newarre  1 - The Rising Sun. Map 2 - Panoptic. Diagram 3 - One Man's Folly π - Under Lying Principals 4 - Squeezebox 5 - Southpaw 6 - A Tick in the Box 7 - RhintA 8 - Roadmap. Map 9 - Which Way Stones 10 - Mother of God. Span Two: Lords and Ladies 1 - Kings and Queens 2 - Piracy  3 - Edge of the Map. Map π - Lunar Ticks 4 - Small Change 5 - Tripod 6 - Eyes 7 - Unraveling  8 - Chandlery 9 - Secrets. Diagram 10 - Wait! What? Span Three: Game Pieces 1 - A Gender 2 - Tongue Twister 3 - Trees π - Flora Temerant 4 - Twins 5 - Who's Who? 6 - Angels 7 - Skarpi 8 - Selitos 9 - Illians 10 - Soup Span Four: Blue 1 - Blue 2 - Aleu 3 - Jax/Iax π - Pax 4 - Maelstrom 5 - Faelight 6 - Track Record. Map 7 - Guards! Guards! 8 - Tinker Tangle 9 - The Oracle 10 - Butterflies  Span Five: Roadworks  1 - Dictum 2 - Old Stone Road 3 - Myr T/ Belen π - Tak 4 - Tall Stories. Map 5 - Amyr 6 - ...
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roadworks span

 As above… So below. BOOK π When I wrote these next pages back in 2020 I had reached a point in my tinfoil where I could nearly count up to eight. 8 Cities, 8 Chandrian, 8 Angels and 8 Amyr… there might even be 8 Sithe, too, but they are not important here…yet. But if we are going to uncover the true shape of the world then we are going to need somewhere to stand. So it's finally time to go to The University. The Archives is one of the cornerstones of civilization which in another world (ours) would be regarded as one of the seven wonders, a dominant feat of engineering to dwarf all others. Sod Tinuë, all modern roads should lead to the Archives and so I think we had better start to begin drawing a few of my strings back together again for tangling together before knotting off at the present day. This is probably going to get a bit messy since I will, in part, be working backwards again, but this is also a real time deconstruction being built right now as I prepare to map the insid...
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