Kvothe is the protagonist of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. The story is structured as a frame narrative: in the present day, Kvothe is a seemingly ordinary innkeeper going by the name Kote. When a scribe called Chronicler tracks him down, Kvothe agrees to tell the true story of his life over three days, one day per book.
As Kvothe tells it, he grew up among the Edema Ruh, a traveling troupe of performers, where he developed his talent for music and learned quickly. After a tragedy destroyed his family, he survived as a street urchin before gaining admission to the University, where he studied naming and sympathy (forms of magic in his world). His intelligence and skill are matched by his recklessness, and the gap between the legend others tell about him and the truth he reveals is one of the central tensions of the series.
Reading Order
See the complete Kingkiller Chronicles reading order for all books in the series.