Kote/Kvothe

1. NotW 0: He possesses a silence more felt than heard
2. NotW 0: He is unnamed in the Prologue. It describes him as:
• NotW 0, 1: He has true-red hair like a flame
• NotW 0: He has dark and distant eyes
• NotW 0: He owns the Waystone Inn
• NotW 0, 1: He is deliberate and clean
• NotW 0: He is patiently waiting to die.
3. NotW 1: He is an innkeeper
4. NotW 1: He is young - certainly not yet thirty. Not even near thirty.
5. NotW 1: His name is Kote, or that's what he calls himself; it is a new name.
6. NotW 1: He has been here for a year or so.
7. NotW 1: He is familiar with the story of Taborlin and many other things beyond what a typical innkeeper would know: In this chapter he knows the full poem to how a tinker pays, medica and how to stitch cuts, what a scrael is, how to properly dispose of its body, the stars the way a man knows his own hands, how to speak Tema and other languages, and the importance of names.
8. NotW 1: He hummed a little while working without realizing it and would have stopped if he had.
9. NotW 1: He has long, graceful hands.
10. NotW 1: His lifestyle is austere.
11. NotW 1: Bast calls him "Reshi"; it's almost a nickname.
12. NotW 1: He says "Anything would be nice." Doesn't sound like he's very happy.
13. NotW 1: He avoids looking at the roah chest. When he finally does, he looks at it with "emptiness and ache", as well as "fierce longing and regret."
14. NotW 1: He is not sleeping well, much or easily.
15. NotW 3: He is leafing through a book in the Inn when Graham arrives - not hiding that he is literate
16. NotW 3: Graham notes:
• Kote seems sickly and hollow, like a wilting plant
• His gestures less extravagant, voice not as deep and eyes not as bright as even a month ago.
• His eyes are less sea-foam and green-grass colored and more riverweed or thick green bottle glass colored. His hair is less flame and more just red.
17. NotW 3: Kote says of himself, "I tend to think too much...My greatest successess came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did. Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did."
18. NotW 3: When the caravan came to town, he sang more verses of "Tinker Tanner" than anyone had ever heard before with the fire shining in his hair.
19. NotW 3: First mention of the name Kvothe in the book. A drunk sandy-haired traveler calls Kote "Kvothe the Bloodless."
20. NotW 3: He claims that he looks like the Kvothe, and feigns being proud of it before faking a reoccurence of an old arrow-to-the-knee injury from three years ago to allow him to excuse himself. That injury is what made him give up "the good life on the road."
21. NotW 3: Kvothe sang in Imre and it made the sandy-haired traveler cry his eyes out - it broke his heart.
22. NotW 3: In Imre by the fountain there are broken cobblestones that cannot be mended where Kvothe killed "him" (the king?).
23. NotW 3: Kote spreads the story through Bast that he was a city-licensed escort from Ralien who was wounded with an arrow in the right knee while successfully defending a caravan from Purvis three years ago in summer. A grateful Cealdish merchant named Deolan supposedly gave him the money to start an inn.
24. NotW 3: His body, especially back and arms, are covered in faint lines of smooth silver scars. There is one scar that is neither smoothn nor silver.
25. NotW 3: Kote says to Caleb the smith, "In autumn everything is tired and ready to die."
26. NotW 4: Cloaked and hooded with the smithing apron and forge gloves in a burned out ruin with a bonfire and something simmering that smelled like burning hair and rotting flowers in an iron pot is how Chronicler found him.
27. NotW 4: He had impossibly red hair and shocking, vibrant green eyes.
28. NotW 4: "A sword wouldn't do you much good." This being Kvothe's opinion explains why he brought pig iron to the fight instead of "Folly."
29. NotW 4: He kills 5 Scrael, but gets cut up badly in the process. He painfully digs the pit for them. (Why didn't he dig it before he lit the fire - before they came?)
30. NotW 4: Tells Chronicler "you'd be surprised at the sorts of things hidden away in children's songs." reference to the Chandrian and Lady Lockless's box?