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Like a drawstone even in our sleep Standing stone by old road is the way To lead you ever deeper into Fae. Laystone as you lay in hill or dell Greystone leads to Myr Tariniel.

Rengen stepped over the line to stand beside his God. Then Tehlu bent to pick up the hammer that the smith had dropped. But instead of giving it back, he struck Rengen with it as if it were a lash. Once. Twice. Thrice. And the third blow sent Rengen to his knees sobbing and crying out in pain. But after the third blow, Tehlu laid the hammer aside and knelt to look Rengen in the face. “You were the first to cross,” he said softly so only the smith could hear. “It was a brave thing, a hard thing to do. I am proud of you. You are no longer Rengen, now you are Wereth, the forger of the path.” Then Tehlu embraced him with both arms, and his touch took much of the pain from Rengen who was now Were

The fact that its never stated directly that the Chandrian killed Kvothe's family makes me wonder if that's actually what happened or not.

Kvothe returns to camp and assumes these were the people that killed his parents, and its not as though its a stretch, and we believe the assumption, but I'm not so sure.

Even the Cthaeh doesn't really say what happened. "Cinder's the one you want," true not not specifically incriminating. "Did things to your mother, you know," okay but what kind of things? "Terrible, " the things he did to Kvothe's mother were terrible or is that an assumption we're supposed to make.

So if it wasnt the Chandrian, who was it?

The Chandrian showing up after the fact ma

I don't know exactly what I make of this yet, but I think Haliax and the Cthaeh (presumably Selitos) are opposites in an important way that I don't recall having been pointed out yet.

The Cthaeh knows the future perfectly, and Haliax can never forget so he knows the past perfectly.

Still chewing on that, but I thought maybe you guys might have interesting opinions about it.