Kvothe

Kvothe is the titular main protagonist of The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss. He is a legendary former hero that has since fallen from grace and works as an innkeeper in a small village. 
==Description==
===Appearance===
Kvothe is famous for his red hair that looks like flame. He has green eyes that are said to change color. 
===Personality===
Kvothe is a genius and excels at most things he studies. He is very quick-witted. He is also fairly reckless and arrogant and therefore tends to get himself in a lot of trouble.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Kvothe was raised among the Edema Ruh, which is a group of traveling performers and musicians. It is there that he picked up his love of music and learned to play the Lute. His troupe was led by his father Arliden the Bard and his mother Laurian. One day while traveling they met a traveling Arcanist named Abenthy. Abenthy joined their troupe and started to Tutor Kvothe. He quickly realized that Kvothe was a genius and taught him many advanced subjects such as science, rhetoric, and Sympathy (a form of magic that conforms to scientic laws). Eventually, Abenthy left the troupe and gave Kvothe a book with a message and his signature. 
Shortly after Abenthy left, Kvothe left the troupe for a few hours to gather firewood. When he came back, he saw that his entire troupe was killed by a dark group known as the Chandrian, an ancient and feared group which mst believed didn't exist. Kvothe was taunted by Cinder, who claimed he killed them for singing songs about the Chandrian. Cinder was rebuked by the leader, Haliax, who told Cinder to kill Kvothe. Howvever, something happened which scared the Chandrian and they fled. 
Kvothe was left as an orphan and wandered by himself, playing his father's lute to console himself. When a string broke, kvothe taught himself to play with six strings. However when more strings broke, the lute was unusable. Eventually, Kvithe wandered into a large city called Tarbean where was trapped for three years.
===Tarbean===
Kvothe spend three years, between the ages of 12 and 15, living on the streets in Tarbean. He begged and stole and was often beaten by guards and other orphans. he sometimes spent time with a former Tehlin priest named Trapis who took care of orphans. Trapis told Kvothe the story of the origins of the Tehlin faith, including how Tehlu sacrificed himself to defeat the evil demon Encanis. 
One day, Kvothe found a story teller named Skarpi, who told of the story of Lanre, an ancient hero who betrayed his people, destroyed six cities and became Haliax. This story reawakened Kvothe. Kvothe pawned the book Abenthy gave him and used the money to buy clothes and passage to The University. On the way to the University, Kvothe met Denna, a beautiful young girl who he spent most of his time with during his travel.
===The University===
Kvothe went through the admissions process to show the Masters how smart he was, despite his age. Kvothe used answers he overheard from other students to make himself seem even more clever. most of the masters were impressed, except for Hemme who instantly disliked him. Kvothe needed a reference from an Arcanist so he told them about Abenty's book, which Lorren agreed to pick up. Kvothe was admitted for free and given 3 Talends to help get himself set up. Kvothe met friends at the university, such as Simmon, Wil, and Manet. He also met Ambrose, who quickly became his enemy.
Kvothe went to the Tomes of the archives and requested books on the Chandrian and the Amyr, an ancient order of knights said to have fought the Chandrian. He was stopped by Lorren who told Kvothe that studying these things would make him look childish.
Kvothe took Hemme's class, which was an introduction to Sympathy. Kvothe knew the basics already and told Hemme so. Hemme didn't believe him and asked Kvothe to teach the class in order to humiliate him. Kvothe, in front of the class, used Sympathy to make a wax doll and heat Hemme's foot. Kvothe was brought in front of the Masters for using Malfeasance (harmful Sympathy). Kvothe explained that he had Hemme's permission, so the Masters couldn't expel him. He was however, admitted into the arcanum for showing he knew how to do Sympathy. Kvothe was sentenced to be whipped. Before being whipped, Kvothe took nahlroot to dull the pain. It also caused him to not bleed during the whipping, earning him the name "Bloodless". In the Medica, he was treated by Arwyl, who was impressed by Kvothe's medical knowledge and offered to let him study medicine.
As Kvothe was a member of the Arcanum, he tried to access the archives. He saw Ambrose sexually harassing a gril named Fela. Kvothe humiliated Ambrose in front of Fela. As revenge, Ambrose tricked Kvothe into entering the archives with an open flame. Kvothe was caught and banned from the Archives.
Kvothe tried to study under Elodin, the Master Namer. Elodin took Kvothe to Haven, an asylum for those who had been driven insane by naming. Elodin showed Kvothe how he had escaped from Haven when he was confined there. Kvothe asked how to get Elodin to teach him and Elodin asked Kvothe to jump off the roof. Kvothe jumped, believing this to be a test of faith. He was severely injured by the fall and Elodin refused to teach him.
Kvothe instead focused his studies in the Artificery, where he studied how to use Sygaldry (Sympathy using written symbols) to create magical objects.
For his next semester, Kvothe was forced to borrow from a Gaelet named Devi, who took a drop of blood as collateral. He bought new lute and started practicing it. While playing the Lute at night, he met Auri, a girl who lived under the university in an area called the Underthing. Kvothe took his friends Wil and Simmon to the Eolian, a prestigious taven well known for music. Kvothe played a song called The Lay of Sir Savien Trailard. He needed a woman to sing with him, and a woman from the crowd joined in. In the middle of playing, Ambrose used Sympathy to break on of his strings. However, Kvothe finished the song as he knew how to play it with six strings from when his father's lute broke. Kvothe won his pipes, labelling him as a skilled musician. Kvothe sought out the woman who helped him and found her to be Denna, the girl he met on the way to the University.
Kvothe initially was hired to play music at an in called the Horse and Four, but Ambrose had him banned from most Inns. Kvothe instead took a job at a small in called Ankers, and got a room there.
Kvothe spent much of his time pursuing Denna, who he was infatuated with. He was supposed to meet her one day. However, when working in the Artificery, a fire broke out and Kvothe managed to rescue Fela from the fire, but passed out and missed his date with Denna.
One day, Kvothe was attacked by two thugs who were given a Sympathy finder (probably by Amrose) to find and kill Kvothe. Kvothe managed to use Sympathy to defeat them. After escaping, he heard of a wedding in Trebon where everying was killed and there was mysterious blue fire (a symbol of the Chandrian).
===Trebon===
Kvothe went to Devi to get money for a horse. He bought a pure black horse from a merchant, who lowered the price when Kvothe named him first night. Kvothe traveled to Trebon, where he met a tinker, who told him the horse had a white pattern on one of his legs, and Kvothe had accidentally, but correctly, named him One Sock. In Trebon, Kvothe met Denna, who was the sole survivor of the wedding. She told him about her new Patron, but refused to tell Kvothe his name, instead calling him Master Ash. They looked into the source of the blue fire, and found a Draccus, a gigantic lizard which breathed fire. The Draccus was living by an illegal farm for denner resin, an illegal and dangerous drug. Denna accidentally took some, but Kvothe managed to prevent her from overdosing. Denna admitted that Master Ash had actually hit her to make it look like she was a victim. Denna and Kvothe tried to kill the Draccus by making it overdose on Denenr Resin. However, it didn't work and the Draccus wandered into the town of Trebon. Kvothe managed to kill it by using Sympathy to drop a giant iron wheel on it.
===The Name of the Wind===
Kvothe returned to the University. One day when talking with Wil and Sim, Ambrose stole his Lute and broke it. Kvothe accidentally called the name of the wind to hurt Ambrose. Both were brought before the masters. Ambrose was charged to pay double the lute's "worth" (which Kvothe actually lied about to make more money), and Kvothe was sentenced to be whipped. Kvothe met up with Auri and asked her to take him through the Underthing into a secret entrance into the archives.
===Conflict with Ambrose===
During the next admissions, Ambrose poisoned Kvothe with Plum Bob, which removed his inhibitions. Kvothe quickly ran to Sim, and got Fela and Wil to help him. Later, he found Denna againa nd found that she had shortly dated Ambrose, who took her ring. Kvothe tried to break into Ambrose's rooms to get it back but failed and was forced to flee, injuring himself. Later, he was attacked by Malfeasance. Wil and Sim originally thought it wasn't Ambrose so Kvothe confronted Devi. He thought she was guilty and tried to use Sympathy to bind her. However she overpowered him and threw him out. Kvothe, with the help of Fela, managed to find the way to make a gram, a powerful object that would protect him from Malfeasance. The group then decided it was Ambrose, who just didn't know it was Kvothe hew as attacking. Mola was friends with Devi and managed to convince her to join them. Together, they managed to break into Ambrose's rooms, destroy the mommet of Kvothe, and take the ring back.
During this time, Elodin found Kvothe playing for Auri. Elodin was impressed how Kvothe was taking care of Auri, and also successfully found her true name, and started to teach him Naming. Elodin also managed to get Lorren to let Kvothe into the archives. However, Kvothe was easily frustrated about how little he was learning from Elodin.
Kvothe, in the Artificery, built an object that would deflect incoming arrows. The object, which he called an arrowcatch, sold for high prices.
One day, Kvothe was arrested out of nowhere for attacking Ambrose. He was taken to trial, but managed to acquit himself. However, the trial made him look bad so he took of time from the University.
===Vintas===
Kvothe's friend Count Threpe got him a job working with a powerful Noble in Vintas named Maer Alveron. Kvothe traveled to Vintas and met with the Maer, who wanted Kvothe to help him marry a noble named Meluan Lackless. Kvothe dound out that the Maer's Arcanist, Caudicus, was poisoning the Maer. At first the Maer didn't believe him, but eventually, Kvothe managed to convince him. Kvothe wrote songs and poems to help the Maer court Meluan. During this time, Kvothe also found Denna in Vintas. The two of them met regularly. However, Denna played Kvothe a song she wrote about Lanre, which portrayed him as a hero. This angered Kvothe and the two of them fought. The Maer asked Kvothe to help lead a group of mercenaries to hunt down bandits waylaying tax collectors.
===The Eld===
Kvothe was put in charge of a group of mercenaries including Dedan, hespe, Martin, and an Adem Mercenary named Tempi. While traveling, Kvothe heard many stories, such as the story of Jax who stole the moon (a fairy tale version of an actual legendary figure named Iax). He also heard stories of a beautiful Fae named Felurian who would seduce and kill men. Kvothe managed to convince Tempi to train him in the Adem language and combat. The group eventually found the bandits. Kvothe used Sympathy to kill most of them, and even guided lighting to strike their camp. There was a mysterious leader of the bandits whom they couldn't kill.
===Felurian===
After defeating the bandits, the group stumbled across Felurian. Kvothe followed her into the Fae realm. The two slept together. Afterwards, Kvothe protected himself from her by using her true name. He tehn convinced her to let him live in order for him to write a legendary song about her. Kvothe spend almost a year in Fae time with Felurian. Felurian made Kvothe a shadow cloak. Kvothe wandered the Fae and found a tree called the Cthaeh. Teh Cthaeh told Kvothe that the leader of the bandits was Cinder. He then tormented Kvothe by telling him how Master Ash would regularly beat Denna. Kvothe fled from him. He left the Fae realm soon afterwards.
===Adermre===
Kvothe met up with the mercenaries. Before they could return to Vintas, a group of Adem mercenaries confronted Tempi about teaching Kvothe. Kvothe returned to Ademre with Tempi. There, Kvothe was trained to fight in the Adem style by Vashet. He trained for several months and became fairly skilled. He passed the test by getting throught to their sacred tree and back using the name of the wind to slow down its razor shapr branches. He was given an ancient sword named Saicere (which Kvothe named Caesura). He was given the name Maedre, which means, flame, thunder, and broken tree. The leader of the Adem, Shehyn, taught Kvothe an ancient poem about the Chandrian. Eventualy, Kvothe left with permission to use the Adem combat but not to truly be an Adem mercenary. On the way back, he met a group of bandits masquerading as Edema Ruh. The group had kidnapped and raped two young girls. Kvothe poisoned them and killed them. He returned the girls to their villages. The them returned to Vintas. The Maer was impressed with Kvothe. However, when Kvothe revealed he was a member of the Edema Ruh, Meluan, who hated them, kicked Kvothe out of Vintas. The Maer, however, agreed to pay for Kvothe's tuition. 
===Returning to the University===
Kvothe returned to the University, where everyone thought he was dead. He continued to study naming under Elodin. He returned to Tarbean where he met Denna, who had collapsed. He used the name of the wind to help her breathe, and returned her ring. The Chancellor of the university was forced to retire, and Hemme was put in charge. He tried to massively overcharge Kvothe for tuition. However, Kvothe struck a deal with the Bursar that since the Maer was paying, he and Kvothe would split the extra tuition, giving Kvothe a large amount of money.
===Later Life===
At some point Kvothe was expelled from the University. He met a Fae named Bast whom he took as a student. At some point Kvothe killed a king, started a war, and went into hiding.
Kvothe became an innkeeper in a small town named Newarre, helped by Bast. He called himself Kote (which is Siaru for disaster). He lost many of his old abilities. Bast took it upon himself to restore Kvothe to his former glory by luring Chronicler there to write down Kvothe's story. Before Chronicler arrived, the town was attacked by a group of Fae creatures called Scrael. Kvothe managed to kill them and save Chonicler. Kvothe agreed to tell Chonilcer his story over the course of three days. At the end of the first day, a bandit, possessed by a Fae creature called a Skin Dancer, attacked the inn. Kvothe tried and failed to use Sympathy to stop it. Bast managed to defeat it but a member of the town was killed. On the second day of telling the story, Kvothe refused to tell Chronicler the full story of his trial, believing it to be boring. When Kvothe told them about the Cthaeh, it greatly scared Bast, who believed the Cthaeh to be the most powerful and evil being of all time. Later in the day, at group of mercenaries (secretly hired by Bast), attacked Kvothe. Kvothe tried and failed to stop them using Ademic combat. At the beginning and end of each day, it is said that the inn is silent, most notably because Kvothe is waiting to die.
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