My Notes

Name meanings

Kote - preparing for winter (it's coming)

Kvothe - Quothe the raven?

Reshi - anagram of shire?

Bast - anagram of stab, short for backstab

Old Cob - Corny old man at the bar

Carter - Used to own a Horse and Cart, now just a cart

Shep - Has a farm; Shepherd?

Orissons - shepherds, Refuge Orisson is a place in France with sheep

Bentlys - cause they're poor?

Crazy Martin - reference to the head shop? George R.R. ? also preparing for winter?

Marion and his Wife - puppeteers (Marionette)

Abenthy aka "Ben" - Ben Kenobi

Trip - is a Tumbler

Dax - after Dax Cowart

Teren and Shandi - singer Sharon Tandy?

Scrael are sympathy drones
Kote possibly used sympathy to make the iron crackle using bad iron to produce extra heat
The thing behind the doors of stone sounds like a machine, dark breath that smothers being something like carbon monoxide
Kvothe == demon
- red heads were burned as demons
- so were people with knacks
- he doesn't want to step into a church
- stays away from clergy

Kote has one recent cut at the beginning of the story (maybe had already seen the scraeling?)
Abenthy was possibly a poor alchemist
Alar is the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Kvothe's father was afraid of some uneducated group who were not superstitious townsfolk
Many sources of blue flame are mentioned including 'firedamp air' which is methane
Kvothe can't play with only four strings, bassists take note

Written on the sword's plaque
Kvothe says "If there's one thing I will not abide it is the folly of willful pride"
Ben says "Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly" likely in reference to the Lanre song?
In Lanre, Selitos knows "how grief can twist a heart, how passions drive good men to folly"

There's an implication in Tarbean that both the caught eight-year-old and Kvothe were sexually abused by older street urchins, it seems to have affected him to this day. "Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever"