#tehlu

[ellennieel]

“They came to Aleph, and he touched them. He touched their hands and eyes and hearts. The last time he touched them there was pain, and wings tore from their backs that they might go where they wished. Wings of fire and shadow. Wings of iron and glass. Wings of stone and blood. Then Aleph spoke their long names and they were wreathed in a white fire. The fire danced along their wings and they became swift. The fire flickered in their eyes and they saw into the deepest hearts of men. The fire filled their mouths and they sang songs of power. Then the fire settled on their foreheads like silver stars and they became at once righteous and wise and terrible to behold. Then the fire consumed them and they were gone forever from mortal sight. None but the most powerful can see them, and only then with great difficulty and at great peril. They mete out justice to the world, and Tehlu is the greatest of them all—”

[ladytyburn]

Encanis after Tehlu trapped him in the iron circle

I stole this from a daily racoon meme account on Instagram , who also stole it from someone else based on the watermark so it's fine I guess?

[timelorddarthswagger]

King killer chronicles theory.

We've already been shown how to kill the leader of the seven.

A man who's face is hidden in shadow. And we've seen how to cut shadow when Kvothes Shadow cloak was made. And she used moon light to do it.

That's why the songs say to fear a night with no moon.

It's not just that the moon is more in the fae world then the mortal one.

That's why his former friend and ally bound his face in shadow. Now it's not his name that needs to be known. Because once you know the name of shadow you can bar his path. Make it so he can't escape and so that tehlu and his angels can imprison him again or cut him down.

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[mychlapci]

oznam‼️v Bánove na vlakovej zastávke si niekto zabudol tehlu. ak ste za posledných pár týždňov cestovali s tehlou, je možné, ste si ju zabudli na zastávke v Bánove. vlastník tehly, prosím, ozvite sa

[thatanonymousgirl]

🌷Kuch baatein thi phoolon jaisi, kuch lehjay khushboo jaise the🌷

🌷Mai shahr e chaman mai tehlu toh kuch dost bohot yaad aate hai 🌷

[bookcub]

Master Ash: "He wouldn't tell me his real name for more than a span. Even now I don't know if the name he's given me is real."

Encanis: Legendary figure, enemy of Tehlu

[loulooser]

Getting 2000 pages into a high fantasy series and starting to use their swears

No joke I have to hold back the immediate urge to go ‘LORD AND LADY!’ Or ‘BLACK HANDS!’ Every five seconds

Same thing with their Gods like I keep almost going ‘on Tehlu’ instead of ‘on God’

[rovnozanosom]

Domček 2020, 2021

Kde bolo, tam bolo..

Bol raz jeden starý, prastarý dom..

.. a vedľa.. ...v zemi.. ... na ňom .. ...veľa vecí- i v ňom!

.. A boli to tieto ruky, ktoré sa v ťažkých časoch držali..

.. keď tehlu po tehle od betónu a hliny oprašovali.

Predný vchod kedysi obchodu patril..

.. a pivnicu v húštine báz a prepadlísk tajil. Píla pozemok však vyčistila krásne..

.. a nasledujúce ročné plány dňové i víkendové už boli jasné.

[kote-the-inn-keeper]

If Kote met Tehlu the following would happen:

1. Punch him in the face like it’s Full Metal Alchemist 

2. Look at him and step backwards into hell 

3. oh shit oh fuck now i kinda wanna write a fic where these two things happen h e lp

[incorrect-kkc-theories]

the king Kvothe murders in DoS is actually Tehlu

[ajcope12]

Trapis is too pure for this world

I’ve been tearing through the name of the wind because it’s so good and I just want to say

Kvothe’s parents

Ben

Trapis

This book makes me emotional without feeling like it’s forcing me.

Or as Kvothe himself might put it, without feeling like it stoops to using low drama

(Also I like myths so the stories about tehlu are so fun)

[cretvo]

(Tehlu) ATLANTIS Missing Treasure . Size: (130 x 104 cm) Digital Print: 4100dpi Media: Acrylic, Gouache & Wax Artist: @amrcg Studio: @cretvo . "I draw lights before lines, I paint with emotions not colors, I imagine situations in my mind and live it like The MATRiX .. YES! I've been into ATLANTIS 2 times before, I've walked in its streets and have talked to the natives, I've smelled its air and drunk its golden honey ... and No! It's not really made of gold" -Amr Moh- Shout-out to people without shadows, for whom still can see the light at the end of the tunnel. . .. _________ #tehlu #atlantisresort #atlantis #drawwithoutfear #amrcg #mistakesareok #acrylicpainting #gouche #howtopaint #howtodraw #waxpainting #watercolorpainting #leftsideofthebrain #cretvostudio12 #Cretvo (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_a43OOpRIe/?igshid=1bccsnfai1t2i

[knitting-gay-nerd]

“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

[eliza-makepeace]

OKAY. I've been thinking about this post for MONTHS.

listen. there's an idea that's been going on in my head for a while now, relating to kvothe and the ruach.

i was thinking about this post when i came upon the little rhyme/song about kvothe's rings, and it seemed to me that there are similarities between the way skarpi describes the angels' wings and kvothe's rings. i feel like this is no coincidence. i don't think that song is about kvothe mastering different names like we see at the university, like fela's stone ring, or chronicler's iron ring. i think this might be something else.

just as the amyr of the empire are nothing compared to the original amyr, according to felurian, i feel like the namers of the current time are children compared to the namers of the Creation War -- Selitos, Aleph, Lyra. words being pale shadows of forgotten names and so forth, but applied to the art of naming itself. if shaping ended up literally creating a different world, aka fae, OG naming must have been quite a spectacle too (lyra bringing lanre back from the dead by calling his name, and selitos cursing lanre by having his name turn against him come to mind). whatever power kvothe has managed to achieve, i think is objectively more profound than just "average" naming (and i think innkeeper kote is the direct/tragic result of that).

also, all of tehlu's angels are ruach. what is ruach, exactly? we don't know. some suspect -- patrick has quite strongly hinted at it when asked about it -- they are the common "ancestor" of both the edema ruh and the adem. both know words and music have power, even if their approach is different, even opposite.

so all angels are ruach, but not all ruach are angels (or, at least, that's what i believe makes most sense). kvothe is a ruh to the marrow of his bones, and now, he also has the knowledge and perspective of the adem and the lethani. he will learn secret magics (according to aaron) and he will fight a demon and kill an angel (according to chronicler). he will also be called a rhinta.

i don't know if i'm making any sense, but i would be lying if i said that i don't see a pattern, threads that connect with each other even if i don't know exactly how.

Kvothe potential angel or god?

I think I finally understand what Tehlu did in that damn story.

When Kvothe starts telling his story. he starts with a misdirect and starts talking about all of creation in a big bang sense of things of how their version of god created himself.

later you find out about Tehlu becoming the son of himself. and Kvothe built up his name through the stories that he created. so when they say Tehlu and all his angels and people pray in Tehlu's name. and through Dena's theme of trying to change her name. and Lanrae becoming immortal by his wife calling his name back from the doors of death...

Kinda sound like something a Shaper would do. as for the wings. kinda sounds like when Namers shape their rings.

what if Tehlu did the same. and took on the name of a god. in the way that Kvothe built up infamy through gossip Tehlu could have built up his divinity through deeds. and one of them is in the pursuit of Haliax aka Lanrae after the fall of the seven cities.

Then the fire settled on their foreheads like silver stars and they became at once righteous and wise and terrible to behold.

songs of power make me think of a quote or misquote in the series is " to know the name of a thing is to have power over it. " or something similar is said by one of the masters at the university. but Fulurian says something along the lines of that's not true mastery being given.

let me show in the instance of this in wise man's fear. " Her smile was fierce and full. She was as lovely as the moon. Her power hung about her like a

mantle. It shook the air. It spread behind her like a pair of vast and unseen wings.

Close enough to touch, I felt her power thrumming in the air. Desire rose around me like the sea in storm.

She raised her hand. She touched my chest. I shook.

She met my eyes, and in the twilight written there, I saw again the four clear lines of song.

I sang them out. They burst from me like birds into the open air.

Suddenly my mind was clear again. I drew a breath and held her eyes in mine. I sang again, and this time I was full of rage. I shouted out the four hard notes of song. I sang them tight and white and hard as iron. And at the sound of them, I felt her power shake then shatter, leaving nothing in the empty air but ache and anger. "

Kvothe didn't gain mastery over her he just broke the power of her name for a time.

a reference to a silver fire.

" I spoke a name. I moved my hands and wove my breath gossamer-thin. It billowed out, engulfing her, then burst into a silver flame that trapped her tight inside its changing name. "

and though not a silver star. a notable reference is made in the same passage in the same fight with Felurian.

"I saw myself reflected in her eyes, naked among the cushions.

My power rode like a white star on my brow.

Then I began to feel a fading. A forgetting. I realized the name of the wind no longer filled my mouth, and when I looked around I saw nothing but empty air. "

this could also explain the drastic change in religion that happened in the 4 corners. and why the Priest didn't like the stories that Skarpi was telling.

that also explains the story that Trapis tells. because of Trapis' faith.

Patrick Rothfuss, who explained on his blog that Trapis is actually a disciple of a schism of Tehlinism referred to as the Mender Heresies. This belief states that Tehlu became human in the form of Menda.

but I'm thinking Menda became an Angel in the form of Tehlu. what if becoming one of Tehlu's angels is the highest form of naming?

we know that after Kvothe is beaten and laying in the snow he imagines death visiting him with wings of fire and shadow. thinking of how offended Kvothe was when chronicler implied that rumors say Kvothe became one of the seven. how wild would it be if Kvothe became one of Tehlu's angels?

I mean look how he starts his own story. " In the beginning, as far as I know, the world was spun out of the nameless void by Aleph, who gave everything a name. Or, depending on the version of the tale, found the names all things already possessed.”

Chronicler let slip a small laugh, "

now if we go a little further you get this boast.

" Kvothe continued, smiling himself. “I see you laugh. Very well, for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories: the rise and fall of empires, sagas of heroism, ballads of tragic love. Let us hurry forward to the only tale of any real importance.” His smile broadened. “Mine.”

The way Kvothe shames the name like fabric makes me think of the waves of power from the Wheel of Time book series by Robert Jordan. the way a name is torn and then let go makes me think of how the weaves would dissipate. but you could tie or knot off a weave. I mention this because I've brought up the dream Kvothe had while in the snow of Abenthy teaching him story knots though he had no real such memory. this was before he looked into Dena's story knots. if he did see one of Tehlu's angels after being beaten. and he dreamed of story knots. could it have been the same as a divine message?

I think of the implication of that towards The Yillish story knots. and how the university has spools and spools of story knots in an old room.

@rhetoricandlogic I know it's been a while. and this is super long. I just had to get around to digging it out of my drafts.

Which is no small feat in way of effort. given all the aimless little short stories, and full-on pages of longer stories that I've squirreled away. I'll save my Puppet in the archives trying to take on the name of the archives. theory for another time.

[r0sebutch]

sibling: no but what if lanre is tehlu?

pat:

transcript: For six days Encanis fled, and six great cities he destroyed. But on the seventh day, Tehlu drew near before Encanis could bring his power to bear and the seventh city was saved. That is why seven is a lucky number, and why we celebrate on Chaen.

so basically lanre is ENCANIS, NOT tehlu, so take that, sibling

[kvothbloodless]

AHHHHHH @queen-raisa got me the best birthday present