The Kingkiller Chronicle: Difference between revisions

* [[I Have Many Names]]: Kvothe, quite obviously.

* [[Infallible Narrator]]: Being [[The Ace]] as well as a trained storyteller, Kvothe recollects every detail of his story. Before he's even willing to begin, he demands proof that Chronicler will be able to transcribe every detail perfectly.

* [[The Knights Templar]]: The Amyr seem to be based on the Templars. Also described as being [[Knight Templar|Knight Templars]] in the trope sense.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Throughout the story, Kvothe and various characters give nods to some common fantasy tropes from time to time. Kvothe is quite [[Genre Savvy]] due to growing up as part of a performing troupe.

* [[Living Lie Detector]]: Denna for Kvothe.

* [[Loan Shark]]: Devi is actually [[Affably Evil|quite pleasant]], but her preferred method of collateral is a small vial of her client's blood, ensuring that she can do terrible things to them with sympathy magic should they fail to make payments. Ultimately Kvothe discovers that {{spoiler|she's more interested in getting favors out of her clients than money.}}

* [[Magic Music]]: Oddly, averted. Our hero is obsessed with music, and he uses it as a metaphor for everything. It's implied that the "true names" of faeries sound like musical notes. And yet no one uses songs for spells, or suggests it's even possible, except for the Adem (who consider singing ''indecent''), who mention "songs of power" in one very old story. (presumably related to the music fae names)

* [[Magitek]]: Sympathy lamps and clocks, a sygaldry fridge.