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Auri's Green Coin May Be a Vintish Copper Penny Linking Her to the Barrow Kings

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The green coin Auri gives Kvothe could be an oxidised Vintish copper penny bearing King Feyda, tying Auri to Vintas royalty.

About: Auri

Also involves: Kvothe, Vintas, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Feyda Calanthis, Foxen

The theory§

This theory began from the green coin Auri gives Kvothe, proposing it was a Vintish penny: such pennies are pure copper and would oxidise green over time, and they bear the image of King Feyda Calanthis, posthumously named the first king of Vintas. From there it linked the coin to Kvothe's frame-story boast that he has 'stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings,' casting Feyda as the sleeping barrow king and Auri as a Vintish princess. The reasoning rests on Rothfuss's confirmation that the sleeping barrow king of the saying is the first king of Vintas, with the present king being Roderic Calanthis. The coin premise was later retracted, the gift to Kvothe being identified instead as Foxen from The Slow Regard of Silent Things, but the Auri-as-Vintish-princess idea is held to survive on separate grounds, including the suggestion that Auri is discovered and taken to Vintas in the third book and that Kvothe follows to save her.

Evidence§

  • I have a theory that the “green coin” that Auri gives Kvothe is a Vintish penny. Due to the fact that they are made of pure copper they would eventually turn green due to oxidisation.
    OP's core premise: the green coin is an oxidised pure-copper Vintish penny. — u/NightShiftArt
  • the connection to the quote “I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings…” With it being king Feyja being on the coin. Him being the barrow king I think isn’t a ridiculous jump.
    Links coin's King Feyda to the barrow-kings boast, casting Feyda as the sleeping barrow king. — u/NightShiftArt
  • So I think this heavily implies the fact that Auri is the princess perhaps from Vintas??
    Conclusion: Auri is the rescued Vintish princess tied to the coin. — u/NightShiftArt
  • It's clearly significant to the world and the story and the way Pat talks about it makes it feel like it'll be significant in book 3.
    Supports that the item matters to the plot, though placement is unclear. — u/Blue--Blue--Blue
  • Where is it mentioned the coin is green?
    CounterCounter: questions whether the coin is even described as green. — u/Gatechap
  • It’s not green thougj
    CounterCounter: directly disputes the green-coin premise. — u/Remote-Sky-7890
  • The green coin is actually foxen (if you have read the slow regard of silent things) So pretty much my initial reason for the Auri is the princess and king Feyja is the barrow king is sadly completely misinformed .
    CounterOP retracts the coin premise: the gift was Foxen, not a Vintish penny. — u/NightShiftArt
  • HOWEVER!! it seems according to a few people that my assumptions could have more validity than that initial root cause Wrong road to the right destination kinda deal.
    OP holds the Auri-as-Vintish-princess idea survives on separate grounds despite the retraction. — u/NightShiftArt

Book refs: NOTW, WMF, slow_regard

Tier reasoning§

tier downgraded: OP self-corrected the coin's identity, so the central premise collapses to speculation

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