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The Kingkiller Chronicle: characters, places & organizations

A basic, browsable guide to The Kingkiller Chronicle's registered characters, places and organizations, part of this project's knowledge-graph pilot. Coverage follows a fixed selection rule (viewpoint characters, each series' protagonists and antagonists, and recurring named roles) rather than an attempt at completeness.

Characters

• Bast principal (aka Bastas; Fae)
• Denna principal (aka Dianne)
• Kvothe principal (aka Kvothe the Arcane, Kote, Kvothe Kingkiller)
• Ambrose Jakis major
• Auri major
• Chronicler major (aka Devan Lochees)
• Elodin major (titles: Master Namer)
• Felurian major (Fae)
• Simmon major (aka Sim)
• Wilem major
• Cinder supporting (aka Master Ash)
• Devi supporting
• Fela supporting
• Haliax supporting (aka Alaxel, Lord Haliax)
• Master Lorren supporting (titles: Master Archivist)

Places

• Ademre region
• Imre town
• Tarbean city
• The Fae realm region
• The University structure
• Trebon settlement
• Waystone Inn structure

Organizations

• The Amyr order
• The Arcanum guild
• The Chandrian other
• The Edema Ruh other

Events

• The Chandrian's attack on Kvothe's troupe (roughly a decade before the frame narrative)

Concepts

• Naming magic_system
  The University's rarest and most dangerous discipline, involving true understanding of a thing's essential Name; taught only by Master Namer Elodin to a handful of students, including eventually Kvothe.
• Sympathy magic_system
  The University's core discipline of practical magic, linking two objects (or an object and a person) so that an action or energy applied to one affects the other, governed by strict laws of energy and similarity that Kvothe studies from his first days at the University.

How they connect

• Ambrose Jakis is a member of The Arcanum
• Bast is the ward of Kvothe
• Cinder is an enemy of Kvothe (rumored)
• Elodin is the mentor of Kvothe
• Elodin is a member of The Arcanum
• Haliax is the leader of Cinder (rumored)
• Kvothe is an enemy of Ambrose Jakis
• Kvothe is an ally of Auri
• Kvothe is the lover of Denna
• Kvothe is an ally of Devi
• Kvothe is an ally of Fela
• Kvothe is the lover of Felurian
• Kvothe is an ally of Simmon
• Kvothe is a member of The Arcanum
• Kvothe is a member of The Edema Ruh
• Kvothe is an ally of Wilem
• Simmon is an ally of Wilem
• The Chandrian is an enemy of The Edema Ruh