Kvothe & Auri

Avatar the Last Airbender + Kingkiller Women

Water—Devi

“My Alar is like the ocean in storm.” Wise Man’s Fear, Chapter 26: Trust, pg 236

Earth—Vashet

“I am that which shapes and sharpens, or destroys.” Wise Man’s Fear, Chapter 112: The Hammer, pg 812

Fire—Denna

“There’s always a price.” Wise Man’s Fear, Chapter 72: Horses, pg 540

Air—Auri

We’ve got some time on our hands, might as well get going on some lists of things to watch/read/do! So, without further ado, here are some of my recommendations!

Read: (Books)

The Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab

The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey

The Johannes Cabal series by Jonathan L. Howard

The Kingkiller Chronicle series by Patrick Rothfus

The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson

Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie

The Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer

Plenty of history books, if you’re interested message me!

(Comics)

Hellboy (Just, all of it)

Fables

Batman: The Court of Owls

The Sheriff of Babylon

Watch: (TV)

The Americans

Justified

Archer

LOST

(Movies)

The Mission: Impossible series (DO IT)

Sicario/Hell or High Water/Wind River

Aliens

The Gentlemen

Booksmart

Ready or Not

Barry Lyndon

Won’t You Be My Neighbor (If you want to cry for the rest of the day)

I'm gestating a theory that The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss is a litmus test for empathy.

Set in the Four Corners of Civilization, Slow Regard... is a polarizing story with little import on the main trilogy. I say polarizing because even ardent fans of the Kingkiller Chronicle will charge that nothing happens in Slow Regard... It’s this charge that I find so telling.

The strange thing is that the assertion is true in its own way. There’s a very strong chance that from your perspective, as the reader, nothing really happens. But the book isn’t written from your perspective; it’s written from Auri’s.

Auri is far from neurotypical. She has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a world that has no concept of OCD. The crises she faces are very real to her. From her perspective they are world shattering.

Rothfuss, as always, is brilliant at inhabiting his narrator’s head. His accomplished embrace of the unreliable narrator is the best I’ve read since Sansa’s chapters in A Game of Thrones. It’s a skill he brings to both Kvothe‘s and Auri’s stories.

So what’s the difference? What causes these readers to embrace  the Kingkiller Chronicle but reject Slow Regard...?

I think it’s rather simple. On one hand we have the story of a young man, confident in his own brilliance. In the other we have a young woman with a mental disorder.

These fans find it easy to relate to Kvothe and the events of his life because they see themselves in Kvothe. They perceive Slow Regard... as uneventful because they can’t relate to Auri; because she doesn’t come close to matching their self-image.

What do we call the ability to relate to and understand the plight of others?

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CasterQuest Ep 101: "The Wise Man's Fear" Ch 86: The Boy Who Loved the Moon

Ep 101 of CasterQuest recaps Chapter 86 of “The Wise Man’s Fear” the second novel in Patrick Rothfuss’ best-selling fantasy series “The Kingkiller Chronicle“.

Thanks to our special guest Erik, who did a fantastic job as my guest co-host!

In this episode we begin the story of Jax and the Moon, discuss the ethics of betting orphans for their houses, tin-foil whether the Tinker is a character we’ve heard of before… and much more!

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Opening track: “The University” from “The Name of the Wind: The Unofficial Soundtrack” by composer Mark Haas. Available on itunes or at markhaasmusic.com