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The Chandlery Fork Handles Candles are a recurring theme in these books, not just common candles such as Kvothe is caught with in the archives, but important candles such as the one Auri makes especially for him. The Mauthern pot links Haliax to candles, the Lackless rhyme features them and the Adem may have a surprising addition to the list too. Auri makes a special candle for Kvothe in the slow regard of silent things and we get to see the whole process…well, sort of, and so that is where we shall begin our circtangular investigation into the the lost art of chandlery. Her ingredients are interesting since two kinds of wax are used, both beeswax from honeycomb and the wax obtained from Laurel fruit. This is important because bees are obviously not plants and the formulae and factoring needed to mix and meld these fundamentally different things together properly, not forgetting the importance of including the dreams of lavender, all together into something that would suit Kvothe’s uni...

Pirony Lunar Ticks ‘What is the Synodic period. Of the moon? 72 1/3 days give or take an L.’ If this number fluctuates, and it does, then this is not a perfect number!! wonderful. The moon is broken too! This must then be the other part of our L-fraction and we shall begin to mark this reciprocal Lunar L as Lu instead to avoid confusion. Our broken binding can now be seen to take the shape Lu/L, or maybe L/Lu…depending on which way things turn… Complicated. That 1/3Lu looks very suspicious and is just asking for trouble, lets treble it out of the way for now and turn it into a proper number the easy way and then we can look at things from a wider perspective. Three thirds =1, add three 72’s=216, (and all the Lu bits) = 217Lu in total, WoW! lucky numbers everywhere! To the naked eye, three full moons looks just like 21 and 7 written next to each other. {give or take a Lu} On a finer scale of things, the mauthern pot shows us three of the moons individual phases too. There was one with n...

Trirony T Dubious Runes ‘Blood, Bracken and Bone! I wish you creatures had the wit to appreciate me. Whatever else you might forget , remember what I just said. Blood, bracken and bone then, that’s what he just said and so, technically, this is the line that that we should remember. Sometimes you need to focus on the carrot, and not the stick to do things right. If you need to cut your carrots into the right shaped pieces then you sometimes have to get a bit technical with things and this ‘phrase?’ also rings a bell from somewhere else. I have no idea what the bracken part is all about, (possibly something to do with brackish which implies salty water, a reference to sweat maybe? Though I cannot make that one stick for all the salt in me! It may deserve a dedicated and technical book of it’s own but for now, I shall put bracken down as being a weed in need of salting… if salting weeds is of the lethani of course, sometimes it’s a choice between weeds or nothing.) but leaving bracken fo...

Birony The Tinfoil Compass ‘What did you think of good old Maclaf?’ Dry. Wordy. Boring.’ And there weren’t any pictures either, but that’s beside the point. ‘His theories about perception as an active force were interesting, but he writes as though he’s afraid someone might actually understand him. In my workshop of the mind all sorts of strange things occur, and putting them down on paper is a bloody hard thing to do!. It’s a lot like Love… ‘If one [poet] could pin it to the paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens, but it can’t be done.’ However there is no denying facts and the answer is always either right or wrong, and if it’s right, then all the wrong answers are immaterial, so why waste energy trying to justify them? Wasting energy is not of the Lethani. The best way to get this theory across is probably by using numbers and if the answer you come up with is Forty-Two, then all the other answers are wrong and so you should ignore them. But we aren’t really in Ada...

Irony Attraction and Distraction ‘I can kill you…for an hour, or a day, but you would return, pulled like iron to a Loden stone.’ ‘How does it work…where does the pulling come from?’ asked Denna ‘It’s a kind of galvanic force,’ I said, then hesitated. ‘Which is a fancy way of saying that I’ve got no idea at all.’ So, Loden stone. Aka Drawstone. Aka Magnet. I’m with Kvothe on this one, I don’t understand why it acts like it does, I just accept that this is one of the fundamental laws of the universe and nothing will ever change that. But I can point out a few small clues that we can adapt into an answer of sorts using only the books text as a reference…I hope, although Iron foil is not really my thing. This one might get a bit lost in places, probably because it attempts to link a lot of pieces together at the same time and doesn’t really know it’s proper place in the world. In many ways it is like Auri’s brass gear, Fulcrum. It’s a big piece made of smaller pieces that also leans heavi...

Under Lying Principals The Basis of all Matt…er Ok, I can see the shape of the problem here, before you can do the jigsaw puzzle, you need to see the pieces. Complimentary pieces of tinfoil that you can assign some individual characteristics to. Shapes with Names. We need to understand shaping and naming, and so we need to understand magic. So you want to be arcanists? You want magic like you have heard about in bedtime stories. You’ve listened to stories of Taborlin the Great. Roaring sheets of fire, magic rings, invisible cloaks , swords that never go dull… This being a fantasy fiction novel, you can, if you so desire, choose simply to take it as read that magic exists. But these books are High fantasy, and if you want to learn things then you have come to the right place. It’s going to get a bit deep in here, but a heavy secret lies at the bottom of things. The pieces are there to see for those who desire to explore the basics of all magic and therefore the basis of all matter. You ...