Setting of the Frame

The Waystone Inn:

1. NotW 0: The "Waystone Inn" at night. Waystones are between major destinations, but are not one themselves. This name implies that we are in the middle of nowhere.
2. NotW 4: The Waystone Inn is in Newarre (but is the N-E-Warre like "anywhere", or Ne-Warre like "nowhere"?).
3. NotW 0: Autumn is evoked, but not directly stated as the season.
4. NotW 0: The Inn is not busy.
5. NotW 0: Of course there is no music (why of course?).
6. NotW 0: Men huddled in a corner drinking with quiet determination while avoiding serious discussions of troubling news speaks of solid, simple country folks making their way as best they can in troubled times.
7. NotW 1: The usual crowd for a moonless felling night: Old Cob, Graham, Jake, Shep and the smith's prentice "boy". They are later joined by Carter. Other townsfolk mentioned in this chapter: The Bentleys (who are on hard times), the Orissons (whose sheep keep disappearing) and Crazy Martin (who planted all barley this year). These are all good, normal English names.
8. NotW 1: "Times being what they were" bookends the chapter. Times are bad due to the war and the brigandry of opportunists and deserters on the roads. Three years ago no one locked their doors. Now they bar them too.
9. NotW 1: Rannish is less than thirty miles away. We are not far from Baedn and Baedn-Bryt (likely, but not forcibly the same place). Oldstone Bridge is within two miles. Near Melcombe and a long ways off of Resavek.
10. NotW 4: Abbot's Ford is about a day's walk away from Rannish (maybe 15 - 25 miles)
11. NotW 1: Something "bad" happened out on Shep's farm recently.
12. NotW 1: Jake is a faithful Tehlin and there is a priest in town. We are withing the range of the Tehlin church.
13. NotW 1: We are west of wherever it is that Scrael come from and there are mountains in between.
14. NotW 1: The Waystone Inn is located in a small farming community with several dozen inhabitants.
15. NotW 1: There have been two levy taxes and talk of a third - that hasn't happened in living memory.
16. NotW 1: They tell stories here, but stories don't happen here. This is not a place for demons, heros or kings.
17. NotW 3: Aryen is between three and four months away
18. NotW 3: The Caravan arrives two days after Felling
19. NotW 3: Fall is supposed to be the year's busiest time. Why?
20. NotW 4: Chronicler meets Kvothe halfway to Newarre three nights after Felling, two days since he was robbed.

Where Chronicler meets the ex-soldiers

1. NotW 2: Perfect autumn day
2. NotW 2: Within walking distance by nightfall of Abbot's Ford