It has its own magic system, mixing alchemy, sympathetic magic, sygaldry (a form of runic magic combined with medieval engineering), and naming (a type of magic that allows the user to command the classical elements and objects), plus others. The series is a secondary world fantasy the setting is named Temerant. Present-day 'interludes' concern his life as an innkeeper, with each present day depicted in a separate book. The series is framed as the transcription of his three-day-long oral autobiography, where he 'trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed'. In the past, he was a wandering trouper and musician who grew to be a notorious arcanist (or wizard), known as the infamous 'Kingkiller'. In the present day, Kvothe is a rural innkeeper, living under a pseudonym. The Kingkiller Chronicle tells the life story of a man named Kvothe.

The series also contains metafictional stories within stories from varying perspectives that tie to the main plot in various ways. The main plot, making up the majority of the books and concerning the actual details of Kvothe's life, is told in the first person. The book is told in a ' story-within-a-story' format: a frame narrative relates the present day in which Kvothe runs an inn under an assumed name and is told in omniscient third person. The series centers on a man named Kvothe, an infamous adventurer and musician telling his life story to a scribe. The books released in the series have sold over 10 million copies. The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 20. The Kingkiller Chronicle is a fantasy trilogy by the American writer Patrick Rothfuss.

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