Kvothe's Edema Ruh Troupe

  • Eight wagons

  • two dozen performers

  • Once a year spent two span with Lord Greyfallow

  • charged to perform

  • stay in pairs while working bigger towns

  • Traveled 20 miles on a good day

Arliden - Kvothe's Father

  • strong Baritone

  • bearded

  • A better musician and Actor than you have ever seen

  • respects honesty

  • Collected stories and rhymes from townfolk about the Lanre, Lyra, Faeries, bogies and shamble-men, and the Chandrian

  • Chandrian talk started half a year before the incident

  • Never let word or whisper of a song be heard before it was ready to play except to Kvothe's mother

  • Believed there was a historical basis for Lanre, an original story all others stem from

  • believe's he figured out the chandrian's reason

  • Seems versed in some chemistry

  • fears bears and bandits, not myths

  • sews

Kvothe's mother

  • slender and pale

  • Green eyes with a ring of gold around the pupil

  • Had a gift for words

  • A noble before she was a trouper

  • was lured away by his father from a "miserable dreary hell" with sweet music and sweeter words

  • presumable family in Three Crossings where she visited relatives once

  • made up songs

Both Kvothe's Parents

  • beautiful with dark hair and easy laughter

  • Ruh down to their bones

  • never officially married at a church

  • cunningly taught kvothe using games

  • not superstitious

  • gave kvothe a lute

Abenthy aka Ben

  • Kvothe's first real teacher

  • Called the wind

  • knowledgeable in all the sciences

  • portly

  • strip of dark grey hair running around the back of his head

  • no eyebrows, perpetual state of regrowing from alchemist pursuits

  • spoke gently, laughed often

  • never exercised his wit at the expense of others

  • cursed often but only at his donkeys

  • Donkeys - Alpha and Beta

  • Beta possesses impeccable moral character

  • tenor, but sang off key

  • a good man with no conceit

  • knew a man with a knack for plants (seemed wistful)

  • mainly loved chemistry

  • a clever thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is

  • Started at the University at 18 and learned as much as he taught Kvothe by 20

  • Got an offer in Hallowfell from a widow, fairly wealthy, fairly young, and fairly attractive, she was a brewer's wife, but the brewer had drowned 2 years prior and she needed someone to help run the brewery and she needed someone to tutor her son

  • though others suspect something else after seeing them walking together

  • Kvothe will see him again years after

Trip

  • Juggler

  • Jester

  • Had the quickest tongue of anyone in the troupe

  • Worked the door

  • has a knack for rolling sevens

  • the troupe had to break him out of jail

  • gave kvothe a knife

Marion and his wife

  • puppeteers

Teren

  • actor

Shandi

  • actor

  • gave kvothe a cloak

  • performed a 'special dance' for Ben at his going away

Dax

  • fire breather

Geusts

Laclith

  1. taught Kvote woodcraft

Hetera

  • cortesean (prostitute) taught Kvothe:

    • inner workings of Modeg court

    • not to do anything in private you don't want public

    • not to talk in your sleep

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