Keth-Selhan is a horse whom Kvothe buys from a livery in Imre to make his visit to Trebon in order to investigate about the Chandrian at the Mauthen Farm.[1]
Description[]
Keth-Selhan is a full blooded Khershaen breed horse who is at least eighteen hands tall with a proud head and black body. His left hind foot has a white sock which is dyed to appear as black. He is a gorgeous, young and strong animal with a legendary endurance and smooth gait who hardly sweats even after galloping a full mile. He is said to shy a bit on the right side and is trained by close reins.
In The Chronicle[]
Kvothe buys Keth-Selhan from Kaerva, the owner of a livery, in fifteen talents after a lot of bargainings in Imre. It's Kvothe who gives the horse his name as "Keth-Selhan". Kvothe assumes that the Siaru word for "first night" is Keth-Selhan and so he gives him the particular name feeling that it would suit his character but later he comes to know that Keth-Selhan actually means "one sock"
Kvothe with Keth-Selhan rides at least sixty miles crossing farms and streams to a cross road at the bottom of a valley where he meets a tinker who tells him that Kaerva had fooled him by selling him a dyed horse. Kvothe too notices that the horse was not all black, the solvents of the stream which they had just crossed had washed off the colour of his left hind foot and revealed it as white in colour.
Later, Kvothe sells Keth-Selhan with his tack and saddle to the needy Tinker in exchange with a Loden Stone, a blanket, a shirt, a bottle of brand and three jots.
Speculations[]
- It is interesting to note that Kvothe unknowingly and unintentionally gives Keth-Selhan the very proper name of 'one sock' which says the real character of Keth-Selhan as having one white sock instead of black. So, it can be assumed that may be Kvothe holds a power similar to Selitos where he can know the inner names of others, but at the moment he is himself not aware of the fact.
References[]
- ↑ The Name of the Wind, Chapter 71: "Strange Attraction"