kvothe begins his story during his childhood, when he lived amongst a troupe of highly reputed traveling performers known as edema ruh. his loving parents train him from a young age as an actor, singer and lute player. he does extremely well in all of these as in every other field to which he turns his hand. the troupe acquires the scholar and arcanist abenthy, who trains kvothe in science and sympathy: a discipline that creates links from one physical object to allow manipulation of another. kvothe also witnesses abenthy calling the wind to fend off suspicious townspeople and vows to discover the titular "name of the wind", permitting this control.