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Nina

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“Trebon girl whose painting captured the Chandrian and an Amyr”

Appearance§

Nina is a young country girl from the rural area near Trebon, candid and unselfconscious. She admits without embarrassment to cutting pages from the church's holy book.

Description§

Nina is a girl from around Trebon whom Kvothe encounters while investigating the Mauthen farm massacre and the Chandrian-decorated wedding vase. Having handled the broken pot, she reproduces its figures in paintings on vellum cut from the church's Book of the Path, drawing on her experience glazing pottery. Her most important image shows a black-eyed man with white hair standing on water amid snow beneath a bare tree, whom Kvothe recognizes as Cinder, the Chandrian who killed his parents. She also renders a grey figure wreathed in black flame and a terrible Amyr Ciridae soldier bearing the angel-names Andan and Ordal on his shoulders. A practical craftsperson, she explains the limits of her paint, unable to capture white or shadow on paper as she could with charcoal or pottery glazes. Kvothe accidentally 'names' Nina, fitting a pattern he shows with Auri and others.

Relationships§

  • Met By Kvothe — Kvothe meets her while investigating the Mauthen farm massacre
  • Depicted The Chandrian — reproduced the figures from the broken Chandrian wedding vase
  • Painted Cinder — her painting of a black-eyed, white-haired man on water is recognized as Cinder
  • Depicted The Amyr — rendered an Amyr Ciridae soldier bearing the names Andan and Ordal
  • Named Like Auri — Kvothe accidentally names her, fitting a pattern shown with Auri
  • From Trebon — a girl from around Trebon
  • Cut Vellum From The Book of the Path — obtained vellum by cutting pages from the church's Book of the Path
  • Painted Name Andan — depicted the Amyr Ciridae figure bearing the name Andan on its shoulder
  • Witness To Mauthen — handled the broken pot from the Mauthen wedding massacre
  • Painted Name Ordal — depicted the Amyr Ciridae figure bearing the name Ordal on its shoulder

Established facts§

  • Nina is a girl from the Trebon area whom Kvothe meets while investigating the Mauthen farm massacre and the Chandrian-marked vase.
  • She made paintings reproducing the figures depicted on the broken Chandrian pot from the Mauthen wedding.
  • Her painting depicts a man with pure black eyes and white hair standing on water, with a bare tree and snow drifts behind him, whom Kvothe identifies as Cinder, his parents' killer.
  • She also depicted a figure with a grey body and black flame, and an Amyr Ciridae figure bearing the names Andan and Ordal on its shoulders.
  • She has experience making glazes for pottery and notes that mixing paints for paper is harder than making glazes.
  • She obtained vellum by cutting pages out of the church's Book of the Path.
  • She repaints the vellum by scraping the existing words off the page with a knife, restoring images she saw.
  • Kvothe accidentally 'names' Nina, as he does with Auri and others.

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