

The series is a secondary world fantasy the setting is named Temerant. The series is framed as the transcription of his three-day-long oral autobiography, where he "trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed." Present-day "interludes" concern his life as an innkeeper, with each present day depicted in a separate book. In the past, he was a wandering trouper and musician who grew to be a notorious arcanist (or wizard), known as the infamous "Kingkiller".


In the present day, Kvothe is a rural innkeeper, living under a pseudonym. The Kingkiller Chronicle tells the life story of a man named Kvothe.
