I read a theory that Kvothe hasn't lost his power in the frame story and infact he is hiding it. For example when the skin dancer came in Kvothe threw an elderberry bottle at him and mumbled a binding. Given magical properties of the elderberry and what Kvothe did was why the skin dancer wasn't able to jump to another body and died instead. He never wanted to set him on fire as Bast thought. This theory changed my perspective a lot.
If true that make me like Kvothe less as he should’ve done something to save Shep in that situation. He’s entirely to blame for that thing showing up, so to sacrifice Shep to keep his magic hidden seems messed up.
So we learn early on in the books that Kvothe taught himself how to hide things from himself in his mind. I feel like the Thrice locked chest follows that same vein. I think Kvothe has hidden how to open the chest from himself (or from Kote) and hasn’t yet retrieved/found the answer of how to unlock it from deep inside his mind. I’ll have to re-read that passage to fully form this theory for sure haha. For now it’s just a bit of an idea?
The theory about the knots on the Lackless box being worn away seems solid. Nobody recognized them as Yllish(sp?) knots because they don't feel them. Remember when Kvothe recalls discussing with Denna that she's learning knots, there's a line about him learning to sight-read them and she says he's doing it wrong. Might uniquely position Kvothe to recognize and read them when others couldn't.
Here’s some speculation: how about Kvothe changes his name & locks “the important thing” (the lockless box, which (maybe) contains a key, or an important component to creating the key, to doors of stone?), THEN realizes Denna is trapped behind doors. Or perhaps he’s closed off the path between his world & they fey, learns Denna is now trapped there, the evil things have become trapped in the human world & he can’t fix it because he no longer has access to the fey part of himself that gave him his extraordinary skill. All he had left to him is his sharp mind. He could have listened to Bast, who is fey & is sort of a “first order thinker” as a result, and now Bast can’t go home, & wants Kvothe back so he can go home. I dunno. As I mentioned, purely speculation.
Hey gents love all the content. I have a question I’m curious your thoughts. Where do you think Kvothe’s sword is currently? He promised to the Adam that he would find a way to return the sword in the event of his death. The world believes that he is dead and it seems he went to some lengths to make it so. Would having the sword sent back be one of those things?
Yeah my guess is that he had it returned. My theory is that Stapes helped him take his death, and that is where the bone ring will come in, so I could see him giving it to Stapes to return.
