How is kvothe pronounced

I really enjoyed the books but man alive, I hated Kvothe and his ego. In terms of pure penmanship it is incredible. The Name of The Wind is a fantastic book, literally speaking. You can tell that a lot of work went into the first novel and Patrick Rothfuss may very well be the best fantasy novel writer of our time. Kvothe has pale skin and green eyes, though the intensity of this color is often noted as changing throughout the series. Kvothe is a skilled arcanist in sympathy and sygaldry, often outstripping his peers.

Skip to content April 22, Joe Ford. Crestfallen and bruised, Kvothe decides to focus on his Artificing for the time being. In order to pay tuition for his second term, Kvothe seeks out a gaelet and finds Devi , who gives him the first of several loans he will eventually take from her.

She uses her clients' blood as collateral if they have nothing of value. Kvothe resists at first but eventually agrees to it out of desperation. With money to his own name for the first time, he pays his admission and purchases his first lute since his father's was broken in Tarbean.

Kvothe studies sygaldry under Kilvin's giller, Cammar , impressing him by learning the basics in just seven days, rather than the whole term that most students require. He achieves this largely by setting all one hundred ninety-seven runes to music that he can mentally reference with ease.

He is then apprenticed to Manet. His other studies included the medicine, mathematics, and advanced sympathy with Elxa Dal. His schedule eventually begins to wear on him, and around the fifth span he begins to burn out.

He remains undefeated in sympathetic dueling, but Wilem and Simmon speak to Kilvin and have him banned from working extra hours in the shop to save him from total exhaustion. With a spot of extra time in his schedule, Kvothe decides to look into playing at the Eolian. While practicing in a quiet, secluded courtyard, he gradually befriends a timid young girl who lives beneath the University in a network of tunnels and caverns she calls the Underthing.

Kvothe names her Auri and generally keeps their relationship and meetings secret. Wilem and Simmon accompany Kvothe to the Eolian when he decides to try for his talent pipes. He plays " The Lay of Sir Savien Traliard ", a very difficult song which requires a female accompaniment. He hopes that amongst the talented performers in the Eolian, one will step up and sing the harmony when the time comes.

After a tense moment of hesitation, a voice rises out of the crowd, and the song goes wonderfully, despite or partly because of the fact that a string breaks on his lute during the performance. He wins his talent pipes, figures out that Ambrose used sympathy to break his lute string giving himself binder's chills in the process and leaving as soon as the performance was over , and discovers after much searching that Denna was the woman to step in and sing the Aloine harmony in the song.

She is at the Eolian with Sovoy, going by the name of Dianne. During admissions week, he makes an arrangement to be a house musician at the Horse and Four.

With the proceeds, Kvothe buys back his copy of Rhetoric and Logic from Master Lorren, and tries unsuccessfully to get his ban from the Archives rescinded. Three days later, the Horse and Four is sold to a new owner who tells Kvothe that he is no longer needed. It seems that Ambrose has arranged the sale and threatened other nearby inns against hiring Kvothe. Anker , partly because he needs a musician and partly just to thumb his nose at Ambrose, takes Kvothe in, giving him a small room and access to meals in exchange for playing four nights a span.

To allow time for his music, Kvothe limits himself to three fields of study: Advanced Sympathy, a shift in the Medica, and his artificing apprenticeship. Denna returns to town and finds Kvothe at Anker 's. They go for a six-hour walk, and the next day she vanishes again, leaving her bill unpaid at the Oaken Oar, where she had been using the name Dinnah. Manet accidentally reveals that there is a secret way to the Archives, but will reveal no more to his young apprentice. Kvothe rises to journeyman by making a bulls-eye sympathy lamp , which Master Kilvin admonishes as a "thieves lamp".

It was skillfully made, however, and Kvothe is allowed to keep it as long as he swears that it never falls into another's possession. Denna returns and meets Simmon and Wilem at the Eolian.

They spend the evening in one another's company and make plans to meet the following day. The next morning, Kvothe saves Fela from a bone-tar fire in the Fishery and misses his appointment with Denna.

He is so poor he cannot afford to replace the clothes damaged in the fire until some of his work at the Fishery sells, and then he can only buy some used boots. He sees Fela at the Eolian and she gives him a fine new cloak in thanks for saving her from the fire, declaring herself indebted to him. He briefly spots Denna leaving, and worries that she will think he spurned her for Fela, but he does not pursue her.

Two thugs armed with a "finder" — a sympathetic compass that uses a hair to point toward its owner — hunt Kvothe down in an alley in Imre and attempt to kill him. He manages to use sympathy to blind and stun them long enough to escape, adding to his reputation, as they believe he called down fire and lightning on them.

Later, crawling into his room through the window, he finds a note Denna left for him wedged into the window frame several days prior. In it, she hints at having met someone interesting about whom she wishes to speak to Kvothe.

He takes steps to confound the "finder" in case someone else comes after him, and takes a room in an inn near the docks. The following day, he hears about a wedding near Trebon , where it seems the Chandrian appeared and killed everyone.

He borrows more money from Devi, buys a horse, and rides sixty miles in half a day to reach the town. On the way, he comes across a tinker to whom he trades away the horse for a loden-stone and sundry other items. At the local inn, he inquires about the wedding, hoping to glean information about the Chandrian, and discovers that there was one survivor, slightly injured, who turns out to be Denna. The two of them leave the inn and head towards the Mauthen Farm to see if Denna can find any of her things from before she was knocked unconscious.

She tells him about her eccentric potential patron , and Kvothe nicknames him Master Ash. They look around the farm, and Denna tells Kvothe that she saw blue flame during the chaos. What wood remains is rotted, and the iron pump-handle is rusted through —signs that the Chandrian were indeed involved. Denna wants to go looking for Master Ash, so they head into the woods to explore. Eventually, they run across Skoivan Schiemmelpfenneg "Schiem" , a swineherd with whom they share dinner and a local legend around blue flame in the bluffs to the north.

They head in that direction and camp at the top of a hill with a good view of the bluffs, littered with a handful of greystones. Kvothe theorizes that Mauthen dug up a Chandrian artifact of some kind when building his house, and that is what attracted them. They see the blue flame to the north before bedding down for the night. A draccus wakes them in the middle of the night, as it comes to the hilltop lured by their fire.

It destroys the fire and eventually leaves in the early morning. Kvothe and Denna make it to where they saw a small plume of smoke rising, and find a small, curious encampment. The draccus appears, and they flee into a cave, where Kvothe realizes that it is a grove of denner trees being cultivated to make ophalum — but not before Denna chews a large amount of it, thinking it to be maple candy.

Kvothe tries to help treat her for the drug's effects but hasn't much to work with. They collect all the ophalum they can find, hoping to sell it back in Imre or the University. In the meantime, he realizes that the draccus is addicted to the resin of the Denner trees and has become dangerous.

They decide to try to overdose it with some of the resin. They ball up two-thirds of the resin they found and bait the draccus with a fire, then hide to wait for it to arrive.

It does so, takes the bait, and starts to fall asleep. Then, fires from Trebon's harvest festival attract its attention and it races maniacally toward the town. Kvothe must leave Denna, who has passed out from the ophalum, to race after the draccus, following it into Trebon. With the last of the ophalum as bait, he manages to save part of the town from the fire with some sygaldry and sympathy, killing it with a massive iron wheel and knocking himself out in the process.

When Kvothe awakens, the townsfolk are in awe, unable to understand what happened. They tell him that they have "disposed of the demon" in the proper manner, and Kvothe plays on their bemusement to gather further information about the events of the wedding. Nina tells him that she saw the artifact the Mauthens dug up and that it was a vase or urn with drawings on it. When she describes what she remembered, Kvothe knows the drawings were of the Chandrian.

She is terrified, and Kvothe gives her an amulet that he claims he has charmed to protect her. He then leaves Trebon, unable to find Denna since the night of the draccus. Back at the University, Ambrose steals Kvothe's lute from its case. While toying with it to tease Kvothe, he carelessly breaks it. Enraged, Kvothe involuntarily calls the name of the wind and buffets Ambrose, breaking his arm.

Kvothe then falls into a trancelike state. Elodin finds him and whispers something that begins to mend him psychologically.

That makes a certain amount of sense, if you think about it. Say it how you want. Fortunately my daughter and I had the advantage of actually hearing you Pat pronounce Kvothe at the Fantasy Matters Conference, so we had that right, however Tarbean we had wrong. Not any longer…. Thanks for the clarification! She keeps coming to me and asking questions. She really wants YOU to be the one reading it. I must say I feel the same way!

SRH: Yeah. I was thinking of that while I made the post. Dude, have you ever read Wheel of Time? Egwene, anyone? Ah Mr. So in my head, he will forever remain, Quo-thee. This is just for the folks who were curious…. At least, I ended it.

But, once they hear it, makes perfect sense. Kind of like Ray-gun, but with a D. That being said, at least I know I was right on the Tarbean issue. Oh and one last thing. As someone said above, this one has been stumping me on the pronunciation.

Or click the little audio thing on the linked page. Geddy, when i was taught to say kvetch, my friend had me saying k-v k-v over and over until they ran together. Ha, I am one of the smarter readers. I have Tarbean right too. Three syllables. Though I do tend to pride myself on my linguistic skills and lord my ability to get character names right just by reading them. I have only failed once in the last ten years of reading fantasy novels. Speaking of WoT…even when Jordan himself said the character names people still dispute them.

Pat I think you misunderstood. That is, I basically make up and entirely new name for the character. Anonymous: Yeah, I know. I know, I know …. Unless I hear it I suppose I will never know for sure. This guy is making me sad. Throw the kid a bone. How do you know her name was Ryssa? I just gave her a name. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name.

It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.