No God Guiding It. Only Me

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I took specially notice of the following passage at the end of chapter 80 in Name of the Wind, and would love to know your thoughts.

> If anyone had been watching, they would have noticed the wheel fell faster than gravity could account for. They would have noticed that it fell at an angle, almost as if it were drawn to the draccus. Almost as if Tehlu himself guided it toward the beast with a vengeful hand.

But there was no one there to see the truth of things. *No God guiding it. Only me.*

I think that this could be meant as a sort of oxymoron, and that it will come by the end of the story that while it *was* all Kvothe's doing, he was being guided by Tehlu and/or Tehlu's angels. Based on these phrase alone, I am picturing a scene where Kvothe "talks to gods" and it ends up being a situation where we see past events from Tehlus pov, or more likely an angels, and we find out that in this scene in particular, Kvothe was not alone. Same with the bandit camp in WMF, and probably every other major event in the books.

It comes out a few chapters later that there *were* actually witnesses, a boy and an old woman, who saw the wheel fall and Kvothe standing above it. So the second to last sentence of that paragraph is blatantly not true. I think it's perfectly reasonable that the next to last and last sentences could also be wrong, although Kvothe doesn't know it yet.

I think the angel that appeared above Kvothe in Tar'bean as Kvothe lay dying will end up being the one we see that has been following him throughout the story. And I wonder if this will be the angel he supposed fights and kills.

As much as I love theorizing about these books, I just wanna read book 3 to see how wrong I am on all my thoughts lol how off do you think this one is?

Posted Feb 28, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

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