Patrick Rothfuss
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The Name of the Wind
The Kingkiller Chronicle
2007
"My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me." So begins the story of a legend - told by the man himself. In a quiet inn at the edge of nowhere, the infamous Kvothe - arcanist, musician, killer, king-slayer - tells his true story to a chronicler over three days. It begins with a childhood spent among the travelling Edema Ruh, where his extraordinary talent caught the attention of an arcanist who taught him more than any child should know. It continues through the night the Chandrian came, and everything he loved was destroyed. Orphaned and alone on the streets of Tarbean, the boy who would become a legend first had to survive. When Kvothe finally claws his way to the University - the greatest centre of learning in the world - he arrives penniless, desperate, and younger than any student in living memory. What follows is a story of brilliance and recklessness, of a young man making powerful friends and more powerful enemies, all while chasing the secret behind the tragedy that shaped him.
The Wise Man’s Fear
The Kingkiller Chronicle
2011
An escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. In Vintas, he becomes entangled in courtly politics while attempting to curry favour with a powerful noble, uncovering an assassination attempt and coming into conflict with a rival arcanist. Tasked with solving the mystery of who - or what - is waylaying travellers on the King's Road, Kvothe leads a group of mercenaries into the wild. His journey takes him further than he ever expected: into the Fae realm, where he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man has ever survived; to the legendary Adem mercenaries, who put him on trial before teaching him the way of the sword; and closer to the truth about the Chandrian and the mysterious Amyr. All the while, the gap between the man telling the story in a quiet inn and the legend the world remembers continues to widen. The second day of Kvothe's three-day tale, where the path of the hero begins in earnest.