Kvothe, only the confusion, the anger, and the numbness wrapping him" IMO this is what has happened to him in the frame, but on a far larger scale. Whatever it is that happens when he kills the king (if that is the event, and not a by product) I think it involves a massive naming (or even shaping) on such a vast scale that is alar doesnt merely brake into diff parts (to allow him to do multiple sympathectic bindings), but actually brakes, cuts off Kvothe with all that termoil, and leaves Kote. Support for K being able to play names; The ch. in the Eolian is called 'A place to burn'. When Elodin is talking of the nature of names "...But a word is nothing but the painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself" (Going up to D/Moon/Tides perhaps the reason K is able to not become another of D's castoff men is becuase he is more fire than water.) Wicked Moon. When Wil, Sim & K are catching up one of the words used to describe D is wicked. We are all aware of her moon comparisons. When auri is talking to K she says some interesting things; first she elludes to the leaves he had coated in his blood, how they had washed up in the underthing. This shows her knowledge of K's life outside of his visits, the danger he is in etc. Also the owl she describes is D. the owl "she