another. Doesn't Chronicler also show that he knows the name of iron as well as just mentioning it? Kvothe tries to open the chest with the Taborlin words as well and that doesn't work. Of course I figured that is why he "tests" Bast with how he would open the thrice-locked chest - because if he can't do it maybe the Fae of some type can! Jo, great thanks for the promotion, and I think we all owe you a huge thank-you as well. The comments have certainly throughout been brilliant and provocative, and have shaped my understanding of the books in many ways, but it's your incredible attentiveness and obvious love for the material in the posts, as well as your engagement with the commenters, that created a space where the comment threads could evolve into the wonderful thing they've become. Thanks so much, this has been and will continue to be a highlight of my week. I'm just depressed that we'll get through WMF long (long, long) before we can see what happens on Day Three! What would it take to break sympathy? Kvothe goes to great pains to explain the system as you or I would explain physics--cause and effect, energy transfer and conservation, etc.--the only thing that I can think of that would fundamentally change physics would be to fundamentally change the world. And maybe Kvothe did exactly that when he did whatever he did that opened the door for the scrael and skinwalkers and whatever