Wheels. What do they mean in KKC?
Wheels are referenced multiple times in explanations of energy transfer in sympathy, so it's possibly reasonable to assume that The Wheel (i.e. the eventual wheel we'll learn about that all these clues are referencing) might have something to do with sympathy.
The Tehlu-Encanis wheel is made of iron, which burns, bites, etc. Encanis, so presumably Encanis is fae. This story might also (?) have something to do with the origin of why iron is the bane of fae folks.
The Tehlu-Encanis wheel also has A Name. A Terrible Name that none could speak. What's the deal with this? (None could speak it like copper? or because something terrible happens if the name is spoken?)
The Chandrian rusted iron wheel is mentioned 2x. Do the Chandrian show up at some pivotal (ha, sorry) moment and rust out a wheel that someone is chained to?
The quick mention of a sintering wheel in the fishery as being as bad as bone tar is very curious. Sintering (definition below in quotes) is apparently derived from the same word as Cinder, which has to be more than coincidence... (see bone tar = Haliax, etc.) Here's a video on sintering (happens in fire, go figure). How would this be done with a wheel...?
The wheel and the draccus: not sure what to make of this, some weird blending of the Tehlu-Encanis and Drossen Tor stories. (And quick question: K says the church wheel is made of real iron and the draccus also has iron in its scales. He says he uses a 3 way binding to get the wheel to fall on the draccus. What were the bindings? (not sure why but for some reason this seems like it could be important...)
1) Loden stone (star iron) to wheel 2) Draccus scale to draccus 3) ?? to ??
Wheels in the underthing. Addressed in previous posts. :)
In WMF things get interesting. PR uses the expression "spike my/our wheel" three times. Why? It's such an odd expression. Is this foreshadowing?
There's a wheel on the cover of the book of the path. Thoughts on this below.
Vashet's name: hammer, clay, spinning wheel. “I am that which shapes and sharpens, or destroys.” How does a spinning wheel shape, sharpen or destroy? Possibly related to sintering...?
some crazy, crazy tinfoil follows next:
WHAT IF the great stone road has something to do with a very large iron wheel? The two references to "taller than a man" we know of are Encanis' wheel and the broken gears in the underthing. Trapis says Encanis' wheel weighs more than 40 men -- if something that heavy were actually mean to be rolled, it would need a big ole road to roll on. The great stone road starts at the University. Is it possible that the underthing gears were sympathetically bound to some giant wheel that was rolled along the great stone road?
and if yes, was this possibly related to the moon changing phase...?