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The Doors of Stone

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“The unwritten third book and the stone doors of in-world myth”

also known as Book 3, DoS, Doors of Stone

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As both a book title and an in-world concept, the Doors of Stone has no single physical form. In-world imagery mined from the corpus includes literal great stone doors sealing an ancient enemy, the grey four-plate door deep in the Underthing, the carved Lackless door, and the standing greystones/waystones whose 'henge'/'hinge' resonance fans read as pivots into another realm. As a meta-object it appears in the corpus mainly as absence: silence and lacking updates, evoked through fan pastiches of Rothfuss's own 'silence of three parts' prose, and through running jokes, ciphered 'leaks', and the dedication about doing something right the first time.

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The Doors of Stone is the title of the planned third and final volume of the Kingkiller Chronicle, still unpublished. The title draws from in-world myth: at the close of the Creation War, after the battle at the Blac of Drossen Tor, the great enemy was set beyond the doors of stone, while Lanre was found dead near the beast he had slain. By Felurian's telling, the greatest of the Shapers, the one who stole the moon, is locked beyond those doors; she names this enemy Iax and places him sealed away while Haliax still walks free. The Doors of Stone are spoken of as a barrier behind which a deathless ancient power is kept shut away, and in the old stories defeated and undying enemies were set beyond them. The phrase recurs around the four-plate door deep in the Underthing, a sealed door known to be one that should remain shut, which Auri senses something behind through her knowledge of the stone's name. It also echoes around the carved Lackless door and the standing greystones. What lies behind the doors of stone is one of the explicit subjects Kvothe promises to reveal across his three-day telling, a tale that remains unfinished, as The Wise Man's Fear ends before the third day is told.

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  • Promised By Kvothe — what lies behind the doors is one of the subjects Kvothe promises to reveal
  • Sealed After The Creation War — the enemy was shut beyond the doors after the battle at the Blac of Drossen Tor
  • Excludes Haliax — Iax is locked beyond the doors while Haliax still walks free
  • Linked To The Lackless Family — the phrase echoes around the carved Lackless door
  • Sealed Shaper Shaping — the greatest of the Shapers is locked beyond the doors
  • Imprisons Thief The Moon — the greatest Shaper who stole the moon is locked beyond the doors
  • Imprisons Iax — Felurian names Iax as sealed behind the Doors of Stone
  • Linked To The Four-Plate Door — the phrase recurs around the sealed four-plate door that should remain shut
  • Sensed By Auri — Auri senses something behind the four-plate door through the stone's name
  • Linked To Greystones — the phrase echoes around the standing greystones

Established facts§

  • 'The Doors of Stone' is the title of the planned, as-yet-unpublished third and final book of the Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy.
  • In-world, the doors of stone are the great stone doors behind which the enemy of the Creation War was sealed after the battle at the Blac of Drossen Tor.
  • Felurian's tale of the Namers and Shapers holds that the greatest Shaper, who stole the moon, is locked beyond the Doors of Stone.
  • Felurian names Iax as sealed behind the Doors of Stone while Haliax still walks free.
  • Lanre defeated the enemy at the Blac of Drossen Tor and shut him beyond the Doors of Stone; afterward Lanre was found dead near the beast he had slain.
  • The Doors of Stone are a sealed barrier behind which a deathless ancient power is imprisoned.
  • In the old stories, defeated and undying enemies were set beyond the doors of stone.
  • The four-plate door in the Underthing is sealed and known as a door that should remain shut.
  • Auri senses something behind the four-plate door through her knowledge of the stone's name.
  • The phrase 'doors of stone' is recurrently linked in-world to the four-plate door, the Lackless door, and the greystones.
  • What lies behind the doors of stone is one of the explicit subjects Kvothe promises to reveal in his three-day telling.
  • The Wise Man's Fear ends with Kvothe's tale unfinished, before the third day that Doors of Stone would narrate.

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