Excerpts from Pat & Nate's Twitch stream on The Narrow Road release date

Link to video:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1977644096
BioLogIn's document is also updated

[37:00]

Q: eddy1984: u/PatrickRothfuss For Mr. Taylor- What was the most challenging aspect of the work to translate visually?

[This begins a vast discussion of arriving on a Bast character design, Underthing design, Auri design]

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[47:45] (talking about character design when glammourie is in play)

Nate: But, you know, that is something that you've pretty much definitively said about, uh, Felurian, is that, you know, she looks different to everybody, basically

Pat: Ahh, a bit.

Nate: Because she's a faerie

Pat: A bit, yeah. No, it's good, because if I had trouble doing one character design with you... And the problem is... And okay, good. Just, I've worked my way out of it, mostly.

Nate: This is good. This is gonna prepare people for The Boy Who Loved the Moon.

Pat: You're correct. Um, but the other thing is, people wouldn't have said, "Oh, he looks different because of glammourie." They would have said, "Who's this other dude? Who's this other character cause I know I saw one dude who..." Or, they would think that you fucked up and that you didn't know how to draw a consistent character. We would have had to make it so different it was clear it was intentional, but so similar that no one would be confused. But then you would have killed me, because that's not a needle that can be threaded in six months.

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[52:07] Q: eddy1984: u/PatrickRothfuss Deep Dive question. Many forms of ink in the past were iron-based. Would depicting a Fey with iron based ink while speaking their Name cause them problems?

Pat: I would say, if it was a, hmm. Part of me was imagining someone with a calligraphy pen, and I couldn't imagine somebody getting enough detail to be doing accurate representation. But that's silly. Of course, you wouldn't use a calligraphy pen, you'd use a brush or something. Um. That is not outside the realm of possibilty. But if you've got this things NAME, why are you fuckin' about with ink? It's sort of like, "I've got an elephant gun and a really sharp stick. Not really sharp, but pretty sharp. I betcha we can do it." It's like, why are you talking about your stick? You've got an elephant gun. Just, proportionately, Name is a much bigger deal.

Nate: If you didn't have a name, a two dimentional simulacra with no other connecting features. Like hair, blood. If it was BLOOD and the iron ink?

Pat: Well again, if you have his blood, it's like, "I've got a guided missile and... a rock that I think would skip three or four times".

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[54:41]

Q: recre_de_guia: there is a monetary system on fae realm?

I like that question. Thaaat is a good question. We could hang, whoever you are. Next!

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[55:55] Q: Did Kvothe kill Denna?

Pat: No, she's only crippled.

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[56:01] Q: BooksinBathrobes: Is Bast the King that Kvothe kills???¿?¿

Pat: No, he's a queen. A killer queen. Very dangerous

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[56:12] Q: apomfret: Will Denna have a book?

Pat: She reads all sorts of books!

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[56:50] Q: interjectionZzZ: I recently had a chance to check out "So Long as You can See the Moon". Was that a MORE difficult project than Narrow Road, or less?

Pat: What's your thought Nate? Let's not talk about that more than... Just answer this poor person's question, as nobody else is gonna understand it. Everyone, Nate and I do wanna release that in print for y'all so y'all can experience it. But just, yes, harder than this or easier?

Nate: Easier

Pat: Easier

Nate: Easier, but in a different way

Pat: Easier, but in a different way

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[58:25] Q: tedimuss: Does Faeda Calanthis take influence from Norse Mythology?

Pat: More Scand...OH, the BOOK? No, I haven't read it yet. I'm a bad Neil Gaiman fan. But from Scandinavian mythology -- yes! I was into draugr before fucking Skyrim made them cool and I'm PISSED about it

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[58:46] Q: meadowdweller: Would you ever consider a book about Elodin?

Pat: Um. Yes! These are easy! Nate, I don't even need you for this.

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[58:52] Q: interjectionZzZ: Any relation between Rhin (numenara) and Queen Rinne?

Pat: See, hold on. Interjection, you're just gonna keep trying to drag us back there. No, I answered your question, but chill out about that. Although, I appreciate that, and I would talk with you about that, but we can't do it here cause not everybody can be a part of that conversation.

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[59:15] Q: apomfret: Who was the hardest character to write?

Pat: In this one? In this one for me, Rike, because I needed to be careful

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[59:39] Q: KingCr00w: What about a Kingkiller Chronicle RPG System?

Pat: I'm already building one for my boys

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[1:16:20]

[Wide and wandering discussion about the drawing of Bast & Kostrel]

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[1:28:24]

Pat: Here's one of the illustrations, again one of the partials, where I think this is the first sort of depiction of a greystone, just to get across the concept of how massive they really are

Nate: And that required a lot of, you had to pull me back from things, cause I wanted to make it look, just,like, Stonehenge

Pat: Which is fair, that's one of the first things I gave you. I'm like, here's Stonehenge, it is this big, they are thiiis big. Because it's like. Unless you've been to Stonehenge. You see Stonehenge, you're like, "Oh yeah, big rocks." You GO to Stonehenge, you're like, "Jesus Christ." This would be outrageous for a modern art installation. Just ONE of them would be

Nate: I had no idea they went underground!

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[1:29:30 to ~1:41:00]

[Vast and varying discussion of the 2-page spread of the still

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[1:44:02] Begins a big discussion of the chapter headers. 2 particularly relevant quotes

[1:46:34]
Nate: Some of them are supposed to look like they belong together, other ones look like they were handmade out of pieces of other things. Like the carrots. That was like. We settled on a piece of a teacup that had carrots on it that had been safe by being pressed into a piece of clay. And it took us forever to arrive there

[1:48:10]
Pat: Each chapter header has this, and you see the sun and the moon go across the sky, and each of them has a couple of different Embrils.

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[1:58:55] Q: tonypatriick: What’s “The Boy Who Stole The Moon”?

Pat: That's a graphic novel project Nate and I have worked on. Just, we'll. Let's not go down that rabbit hole. We don't have time to do that justice. It's something you'll see. Just give it a mo.

Nate: (it's so good)

Pat: It's very, I'm so... Nate. This one (Narrow Road), it's mostly me, and Nate did some illustrations that are amazing and I love. The Boy that Loved the Moon is mostly Nate, and therefore it's better. It's stunning. You will platz. Even if you don't know how to, you will. That graphic novel will make you learn Yiddish, is what I'm saying

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[2:02:50]

Pat: If we do a Denna book and there are illustrations, I absolutely will invite Nate. I mean, he might have moved on to bigger and better things, but I certainly wanna do it.

Nate: For which one?

Pat: A Denna book, maybe. I've talked about a Denna book for a long time.

Nate: I wanna do everything! I wanna do Laniel Young-Again

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[2:04:48]

Pat: When we realized that we shouldn't call it Lightning Tree anymore, because it was just gonna cause a bunch of confusion. And that came very late in the game, it was like, oh no. Oh, no. To come up with a title, cause it was the easiest title I ever had. Although in my drafts, it had the title, "Bast's Day". Thanks, it's bad. But then the new, when we're like, if we're gonna move from Lighting Tree to something else, it was a struggle. Like all of my titles, it was a struggle.

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[2:05:49]

Pat: Somebody says, "Do I have a set of Embrils?" I do, they're right here on my desk (holds up a black bag). I've been slowly assembling them