KKC Theory WikiFelurian and Auri Are Two Broken Halves of Lyra, Divided in the Creation War
A crackpot theory that Lyra was split into Felurian (a sex-crazed id) and Auri (kept by the Amyr behind the four-plate door).
Also involves: The Amyr, The University, Haliax, The Fae, Iax, The Moon, Myr Tariniel, Selitos, The Chandrian, Daeonica, The Four-Plate Door
The theory§
This theory holds that Lyra, Lanre's wife, did not simply die during the Creation War but was sundered into two broken-minded halves, each surviving as a separate being. The reading begins from the play Daeonica, a tragic love story between Tarsus and a woman named Felurian in which the dead are raised, blue flames appear, and an exorcism scene mirrors the fall of Myr Tariniel and the confrontation between Lanre and Selitos; if Daeonica retells the Lanre tragedy, then its Felurian is Lyra. From there the theory speculates that one fractured half became Felurian, the timeless Fae temptress ruled by appetite, while the other became Auri, the gentle, damaged girl living beneath the University and kept (in this reading) by the human Amyr behind the four-plate door as a standing rebuke to Lanre. The split is justified by analogy to the tale of Jax, who captures only part of the moon's name and so possesses only part of her. The reading further leans on How Old Holly Came to Be as a second Lanre-and-Lyra story and treats the lunar associations of Auri, Felurian, and Denna as deliberate misdirection.
Evidence§
I believe the play Daeonica is about Lanre/Halliax.
OP's foundational premise: the play retells the Lanre tragedy. — u/OldMysteriesDaeonica is a tragic love story between a character named Tarsus and Felurian. Taurus dies and is raised from the dead. There are blue flames, suggestion Chandrian. There's an exorcism scene that closely mirrors the confrontation between Lanre and Selitos as Myr Tariniel falls.
Parallels in the play linking it to the Lanre story. — u/OldMysteriesThe important part for now is that, if this is the case, it implies Felurian is Lyra.
Core inference: if Daeonica is the Lanre story, its Felurian is Lyra. — u/OldMysteriesfor the purposes of this theory, let's assume in the story of Jax that the moon is both the literal moon and a woman Jax desired and that the woman is Lyra/Felurian. … Jax only manages to take part of her name.
Jax analogy justifies possessing only part of Lyra, hence a split. — u/OldMysteriesLyra/Felurian got split into two pieces, both of which have broken minds but both are broken in different ways. One side of her is trapped in the Fae and is just a sex-crazed id. The other part is Fel-Auri-n and is being kept by the Amyr as an FU to Lanre.
The central claim: Lyra sundered into Felurian and Auri. — u/OldMysteriesAuri is what's supposed to be trapped behind the four-plate door but she got out through some kind of back wall Taborlin the Great style.
Supports the Auri-behind-the-four-plate-door half of the split. — u/OldMysteriesI also consider How Old Holly Came to Be a Lanre/Lyra story.
Commenter adds a second Lanre-and-Lyra source story. — u/chainsawx72Lyra was written as a human, skilled in magic but human. Felurian is as old as time, and very much fae.
CounterCounter: human Lyra cannot be the timeless fae Felurian. — u/Joey-tnfrdnot sure why Auri would be delighted that Kvothe looked like a Cyridae, or why Felurian would rather drive him bloody and torn than talk about the Seven if they were incarnations of Lanre’s wife.
CounterCounter: their behavior toward Kvothe contradicts being Lyra. — u/vercertorix
Book refs: NOTW, WMF
Tier reasoning§
tier verified: self-described crackpot speculation, fringe is correct
Contributors§
- u/crazy_animal — extended · 5 pts