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Risk Assessment A Little Tinkering… Now if we are going to go meddling with dark forces, a little added protection might not go amiss and so we ought to find an amulet. Kvothe gives a very scared Nina a special charm to ward off demons, a bright disk of metal with intricatre sygaldry which he ‘tunes’ to her by reciting ten lines of the old language Tema which is actually a load of cobblers as it is just a piece of tin he had been tinkering with but it wasn’t worth a tinker’s cuss for warding off demons. He made up Veloran and stole ten inappropriate lines from Ve Valora Sartane (the brave little soldier??) which he spoke in the old Language that only priests know. It has no power except as a placebo but sometimes that is all you need, and to speak some old words in Tema, such as Tehus antausa eha which apparently works to protect from demons during the seven days of high mourning. Such superstitions are common among the poor folk of the world and are readily used as protection against ...

Triangles of Temerant HypoTinuës The first thing to remember is that Atur is the Capitol of the Aturan Empire. Not just a big city, this is the administrative centre and temple of church and state. All power stems from here through the hands of the Emperor and the Pontifex. It’s symbol is the six-spoked Iron Wheel of the Tehlin Church like the one we witness in Trebon. Chronicler also wears an iron wheel around his neck. Its position on our maps puts it pretty much at the centre. The map we need to view first is that of The Eternal Aturan Empire which shows the extent of it’s range of conquest from it’s origins. Outward growth has been in all directions and near total at the height of the Empire’s power with only a few unconquored lands remaining ‘free’, notably… The forest of The Eld which has also been claimed by Modeg as it’s royal border. The Shalda Mountains in which the Cealdish nomads have made their home. and the last few bits of Yll which haven’t been stamped on by the Aturan ...

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...

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 ...

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...