the doors of stone the kingkiller chronicle

Martin, a man who knows something about creating beloved fantasy works. Miranda is far from the only fan of The Kingkiller Chronicle also in Rothfuss‘ corner is George R.R. As he made clear in a recent interview, saying, “It is very fair to wonder, ‘How much of this is real? How much of this is true?’ Unfortunately, any answer that I gave to that would be destructive to the story … If I were gonna go back and mythologize my life, I would leave out so many of the terrible choices that I made.”

There’s also a nice ambiguity to Kvothe’s story as it unfolds, with Rothfuss playing up the idea that, just because the character tells the Chronicler that something happened one way, that isn’t necessarily true. Although The Kingkiller Chronicle contains as fully formed a mythology as any high fantasy story - as Kvothe travels across “The Four Corners of Civilization,” he encounters a number of creatures and tribes, including the Chandrian and the Fae, and the books recount alternate realities and a history that includes something dramatically called the “Creation Wars” - Rothfuss writes in a more down-to-earth manner that grounds the narrative in a way befitting its central character, who has gone from being a master magician and warrior (not to mention a man rumored to have murdered royalty, hence the series title) to, at the time of the story’s open, an innkeeper trying to live a more downbeat, peaceful life.

A large part of the series’ charm is the way in which it subverts expectations.

The doors of stone the kingkiller chronicle