KKC Theory WikiTak
“Strategic board game played across the Four Corners”
Description§
Tak is a board game of strategy played with stones throughout the Four Corners. Its pieces include flat stones and roads that may be moved and stacked into towers, and a capstone crowns the formation. The game prizes bold, elegant, and dangerous play over merely defensive caution, and a particularly skilled game may be praised as a thing of beauty.
Relationships§
- Player Kvothe — Kvothe learns and plays Tak, and tries to teach it to Felurian
- Player Felurian — Kvothe tries to teach Felurian Tak but she already knows it and beats him
- Taught By Bredon — Bredon teaches Kvothe the deeper game, to be bold, dangerous, and elegant
Established facts§
- Played with stones, including roads that can be moved and stacked like towers
- A capstone is used atop the stacked pieces
- Bredon teaches Kvothe that the point of the game is to be bold, dangerous, and elegant rather than to play as tightly as possible
- Bredon plays Tak using the wolf-headed cane he carries, its head serving as the capstone
- Kvothe attempts to teach Felurian Tak, only to find she already knows it and beats him handily
Theories that reference this§
- plausible Kvothe Is Baiting the Chandrian to the Waystone, a Trap Built to Defeat Them pop 904
- fringe Bredon Slips Between Worlds on Moonless Nights via Fae Doors pop 186
- fringe Bast May Be Encanis/Cthaeh Playing a Long Game Against Kvothe pop 147
- fringe Bredon Is Book Three's Hidden Villain Manipulating Vintish Politics pop 127
- fringe Bredon Is Cinder, Embezzling His Own Northern Taxes From the Maer pop 114
- plausible Bredon Is Simply Bredon, Not Cinder or a Chandrian pop 88
- fringe Elodin Is Remmen, Lord of Twilight and the True Father of Bast pop 84
- fringe Bredon Is Master Ash and Also the Baron Jakis, Denna's Patron pop 77
- plausible Bredon Isn't Cinder, But If a Chandrian He Could Be Haliax pop 72
- fringe Bredon, Cinder, and Denna's Patron Are All One Person pop 54