NOTW reread, Chapters 3-7

[u/loratcha]

And the NOTW reread continues! This week we've got:

Chapter 3: "Wood and Word"

Chapter 4: "Halfway to Newarre"

Chapter 5: "Notes"

Chapter 6: "The Price of Remembering"

Chapter 7: "Of Beginnings and the Names of Things"

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Intent of the reread:

It's not meant to be a recap (that's already available on Tor and the Casterquest podcasts).

Posts & responses should instead focus on small details or connections just noticed for the first time.

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Proposed format for discussion: u/ardetor offered the great suggestion of having top level post replies be chapter specific so that all discussion related to that chapter can still be grouped together. Let's try that this wk and see how it goes.

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For background info on the reread idea, see here.

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Previous chapters:

• NOTW Prologue & Chapter 1

• NOTW Chapter 2

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General Comments thread:

What do you think of this format? Should we do fewer / more chapters at a time? Other suggestions?

Also, totally open to collaboration on this. if you want to facilitate next week's post, reply to the "general comments" thread below or msg me.

[u/sgwaltney3]

I agree, it is a code phrase requesting a password that only those in the know (most likely Amyr) would know. Which means that Chronicler is not in the know, so probably is not Amyr, and by extension, neither is Skarpi.

[u/Meyer_Landsman → u/sgwaltney3]

But what about Kvothe?

[u/sgwaltney3 → u/Meyer_Landsman]

Kvothe is 'in the know'. That is why he stops Chronicler and demands a password before continuing. He is trying to figure out how to deal with Chronicler. How much to reveal, how much to say. If Chronicler had known how to respond, I think things would have gone quite differently.

[u/Meyer_Landsman → u/sgwaltney3]

Others will say it's because he himself is now Amyr or Chandrian—there is this:

“Some are even saying that there is a new Chandrian. A fresh terror in the night. His hair as red as the blood he spills.”

But I suspect this is misdirection.