KKC Theory WikiThe Chandrian Function Like an Eight-Spring Arrowcatch Around the Moon
The Chandrian are arrowcatch-like springs harnessing the moon's motion to keep a shadow trapped forever.
About: The Chandrian, The Lackless Box
Also involves: The Moon, The Fishery, Aleph, Sygaldry, Haliax, The Lethani
The theory§
Building on the premise that the Lackless box is a kind of perpetual-motion machine, this theory recasts the box's mechanism as a version of the eight-spring arrowcatch Kvothe builds in the Fishery, with each spring standing for one of the angels who fell and became the Seven. Kvothe describes the arrowcatch as an automatically triggered kinetic opposition device that stops arrows by pushing back very fast and very hard with modified bear-trap spring steel; the theory reads the moon's perpetual motion as the coiled spring and the eight lunar phases as the eight springs of an inverted catch, one that traps something rather than warding it away. The Yllish sygaldry on the box is taken to bind these eight angels to the moon as spokes of a great iron wheel. The broken-circle brand Kvothe burns into the false Ruh is read as the Seven completing their circle by wearing an eighth member like a second skin, and Haliax's boast that no door can bar his passing is tied to the sealed four-plate door the Seven cannot open.
Evidence§
The perpetual motion generated by the Lackless box … isn't powering a magnet. It's the coiled spring.
OP's core reframing: the box's perpetual motion is an arrowcatch spring, not a magnet. — u/SmurphiliciousIn general terms, Master Kilvin, **it's an automatically triggered kinetic opposition device.** … More specifically, it stops arrows.
Book quote defining the arrowcatch as a kinetic opposition device, the theory's mechanism. — u/SmurphiliciousThe Lackless box is an amalgam of the devices we see in the Fishery. An "ever-burning lamp" and an arrowcatch. The perpetual motion of the moon, pushing back hard and fast in order to keep something trapped forever.
Ties the box to Fishery devices; moon's motion traps something forever. — u/SmurphiliciousI designed it to have eight springs in a circle.
Eight springs map onto the moon's eight phases and the eight angels. — u/SmurphiliciousThe moon has eight phases. … each of them a spoke of the great iron wheel. … They're arrowcatch springs, harnessing the moon's motion to push back and keep the shadow trapped.
Core synthesis: angels as springs/spokes bound to moon via Yllish sygaldry. — u/SmurphiliciousSo they reshaped him, and completed their circle once again by wearing the eighth like a second skin.
Reads the broken-circle brand as the Seven restoring their circle with an eighth. — u/SmurphiliciousIf the arrowcatch is a parallel for the way that the Chandrian function, can you clarify a bit? Are they the springs? What are they catching and how? Is it an inverted one, to keep something trapped instead of kept away?
Refines by demanding the mechanism be specified; flags ambiguity in the analogy. — u/KatterWhat perpetual motion generated by the Lackless box? Where did you get that from in the books?
CounterCounter: challenges the unproven premise that the box generates perpetual motion. — u/Toes14Tehlu's wheel had six spokes, These are the six (Sithe). … Six became seven … You are close here smurph, but disconnect the Chandrian from the Angels and everything will fall into place.
CounterCounter: argues wheel has six spokes, not eight, and rejects angel link. — u/Ragnanicci
Book refs: NOTW, WMF
Tier reasoning§
no change; speculative mechanical analogy, fringe is correct
Contributors§
- u/Katter — clarified · 14 pts