Is Kvothe Six-String a time traveler?

Anthony Drake's instruments are from great Adepts before him, right? Okay, so I know that Kvothe is basically an insert from a different universe, due to Chris liking the Kingkiller series.(I want to read it too now) But, it's a medieval set series, and if put into the Sentinels Multiverse, would makes Kvothe an adept from the past. (Or possibly a post-apocalyptic future) But if Kvothe is playing the deck, and pulls out instruments from Drake's past, Does that mean he's playing instruments from his future? Or maybe I should just mentally rename those instruments for heroes in Kvothe's past. (I'm sure I could make up some pretty interesting ones)

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It's a multiverse, so perhaps he's an adept from a different universe.

Maybe he's the one that broke everything.

And maybe he killed a king at the same time!

Except we won't find that out unless we time-travel to about 2028, by which time the third book will (presumably) have been released. :)

The author is George R. R. Martin?

Nope, Patrick Rothfuss.  Rothfuss suffers from slow-writing syndrome like Martin, but fortunately doesn't seem to have caught Martin's trilogy-creep disease.

(On a related note, my friend and I have a standing bet about which will be finished first, the Song of Ice and Fire, or the third Mistborn trilogy*.  Anyone want to choose a side?)

*Sanderson's long term series plan is rather complex.  Mistborn is a trilogy of trilogies (first trilogy is fantasy, second will be urban fantasy, and the third will be Sci-fi), although there is now a series of interquels being release which take place in between the first and second trilogy.  The 2nd trilogy is (I believe) projected to be written between the first 5 and the last 5 books of the Stormlight Archive, and I think there are another series or two in between the completion of the Stormlight Archive and the 3rd Mistborn Trilogy.  So there are at least 11 books to be written (but easily as many as 20) before the 3rd trilogy can get started.  On the other hand, Brandon releases books much, much faster than Martin does.  Since A Dance with Dragons was published, Brandon has released 3 major books, 3 YA books, 5 novellas, and a few short stories, with two more books to be released by next January.

I'm skeptical that Rothfuss will be able to wrap up everything in his story in one final book in this trilogy.  There are far too many directly plot-relevant tales to tell to finish things in a single volume IMO.  

On your bet - Mistborn.  Like you said, Sanderson puts out content like crazy, and he has a plan for his releases...and he sticks to that plan.  He's also younger and in better physical condition than Martin.  I can easily see Martin ending up like Robert Jordan, and even if that doesn't happen I'm willing to bet that Sanderson can write his 20 books by the time Martin writes his next 2 (or more?) in ASOIAF.

 

I plan on reading A Song of Ice and Fire at some point so looked it up a while back to see how many more books were planned and apparently it's two. But given that I was at my job in the bookshop for eight years and during that time the only book to come out was the latest (A Dance with Dragons, released in a single, huge volume in hardback but split into two in paperback), I don't expect we'll be seeing those for a while...

um the max and Wayne trilogy is the second mistborn trilogy and the urban one. and the last two books in that trilogy comes out next year. Much sooner than first 5 storm light achieve. I will agree Sanderson produces books like crazy and actually teaches a couple courses a year. I think I counted 6 books coming out in next year. He only writes from jan to end of August also. Other 4 months is just writing exercises, which usually turn into books

Not quite.

From the 2014 State of the Sanderson

There will be one more Wax and Wayne (early 1900s-era) Mistborn book. Back after I finished The Alloy of Law, I sat down and plotted out a trilogy with the same characters. The Alloy of Law was more of a happy, improvised accident. The follow-up trilogy is meant to be more intentional. So in the end, we’ll have four total. (The final one is tentatively called The Lost Metal.) From there, I might jump to the second “big” trilogy, which is 1980s tech. Or I might dally a little more in something 1940s-era instead. We’ll see.

My money's on Martin, I think. Book number six is somewhat close now, and though I have no doubt Sanderson can put out a dozen books in the time it will take to finish number seven, I don't think we'll get all the way to the end of Mistborn. Not with the end of Wax and Wayne, a second Mistborn trilogy in the middle, the Stormlight Archive, The Dark One, Calamity, the fifth Alcatraz book, Dragonsteel, possible Elantris sequels, The Aztlanian, Nightblood, and whatever else he dreams up between now and then...

Until I hear further from Rothfuss and Christopher I'm assuming it's a nod to an awesome series that will allow fans of the books and Sentinels to find something new and exciting to get into.

When I first learned about the Kvothe Argent Adept card I burned through the Kingkiller books in about a month and a half. They're now my new favorites and I've read Rothfuss's other works such as "The Slow Regard of Silent Things", "The Lightning Tree", and "How Old Holly Came to be".

I highly recommend them and you can see a lot of the inspiration for Anthony Drake's Adept in Kvothe's adventures and appearance.

I’m of the opinion that Kvothe’s time however long it may be as Argent Adept takes place between two chapters (I can’t remember the numbers at the moment) of Wise Man’s Fear in which he talks about a number of adventures he had, but were not important to the story he is telling so skips over them entirely