Chapter Summary Of The Waystone Inn '

1. In the town of Newarre, there are stories being exchanged in the Waystone Inn, when the innkeeper returns. Later that night, Kote, the innkeeper, attempts to bury and burn corpses of a demon spider, he runs into the chronicler and saves him from an attack of the demons. He soon realizes that his savior is the legendary arcanist, Kvothe.

2. Kvothe agrees to allow the chronicler to write the life of his legend, taking 3 days in the inn. He begins with his youth of him in his family’s theater troupe, as for going from settlement to settlement, runs into an old arcanist from the University, Abenthy, who teaches him sympathy(magic). His troupe is killed by the mythical Chandrian after the departure of Abenthy, Kvothe takes his father’s lute
Kvothe the lives in the forest for many months till he met 2 men who took him to the city of Tarbean. There, he lives as a thief for more than 3 years, almost being killed and getting a fortune twice. His father’s lute broken by kid brawlers and selling his book for quite a bit. He uses that money to fancy himself. He decides he is going to go to the University, with no money, he gets in through them quizzing him.

4. Not much happened during his first term at the University, he stayed at a dorm. Kvothe for once in many years, has friends, Simmon, Wilem, Manet, and Sovoy, which he gets into trouble and odd situations in with. Kvothe as well ends up getting whipped for punishment without reaction, giving him the name Kvothe the Bloodless, and jumps off a roof of a 3 story building from a trick from a professor.

5. The second term began and yet again Kvothe had no money. He gets a loan from moneylender Devi, which due to the principle of the loan he had to buy a lute. Kvothe then begins focusing on the medical studies, math, advanced sympathy, and becomes the apprentice of the Master Artificer Kilvin. Kvothe was allowed access to the Archives, the largest holding of knowledge in the world, then gets banned because he had a lit