The Chronicles

These are the campaign's in-character documents. Letters written home, journals kept badly and then kept well, and reports filed with the Riders of the Watch by two people who could not agree on how the fight had gone.

They cover the first stretch of the campaign, from the Sunless Citadel to the empty tower in Fallcrest. The same events are told plainly in the Campaign Diary. These are the versions with an audience and something to prove.

Worth knowing while you read: Kvothe kept the party's written chronicle, and lost it. Ledger and ink went down a crevice in the Underdark on a critically failed roll. In fiction, the record below no longer exists.

The entries

Into the Sunless Citadel · Kvothe Three missing Riders, a kobold with something to prove, an argument about mercy, and a sarcophagus under a burning tree.

The First Forays · Agatha, to Brother Ordrik Positions with the Riders, a barrow the Winterbole Tribes hold sacred, and a young jeweller at an inn in Harken looking for his fiancée.

Magic Armor Weirdness · Jocelin Spider-riding goblins, an orc ambush that went badly for the orcs, the first sound in everyone's heads, and a suit of enchanted plate with a side effect.

How We Lost Our Horses · Kvothe and Jocelin, to Banner The copper mines, an orc chief who talked, an underground lake with a boat waiting on it, and every horse and pack the party owned, gone.

Finding Jaylin · Agatha, to Brother Ordrik A spear nobody would carry, a scrying that got worse, and two keys for one door.

Master of the Mantis · Zarah, to Master Senzan A single combat with a Derro monk, and the tattoos that left his skin the moment he fell.

Trouble in Fastormel · Kvothe and Jocelin, to Banner A mist fifty feet high with an edge like a knife, a white tower in the square, and the man who came out of it to give them terms.

The Silver Ravens · Jocelin Midsummer in Fallcrest. A storytelling contest, a wizard handing out teleport tokens, and a walk out to a grove of standing stones.

The Queen of Spiders · Kvothe Holding the keep a third time, a bugbear who would not stay beaten, and terms agreed with something twenty feet across that speaks Common.

Trolls, Rocks, and Tiny Huts · Agatha Written from inside a magical bubble, while trolls pile rocks on top of it.

Deep Gnomes and Dragons · Jocelin, to Banner The troll hoard itemised, a blindfolded road into a city nobody has ever found, and twenty-five goblins repairing the keep on someone else's orders.

Missing Mage · Ruin, Marked of the Hinge Tablets out of a dead god's temple, and purple ichor on the floor of the Septarch's study.