10 things we need to see in The Doors Of Stone, Kingkiller Book 3

7. Discovering what lies beyond the four-plate door

Deep within the bowels of the University’s vast library, Kvothe finds a mysterious door with seemingly no way to open it. Here’s a description from The Name of the Wind:

"It was made of a solid piece of grey stone the same color as the surrounding walls. Its frame was eight inches wide, also grey, and also one single seamless piece of stone. The door and frame fit together so tightly that a pin couldn’t slide into the crack. It had no hinges. No handle. No window or sliding panel. Its only features were four hard copper plates. They were set flush with the face of the door, which was flush with the front of the frame, which was flush with the wall surrounding it. You could run your hand from one side of the door to the next and hardly feel the lines of it at all."

The four-plate door is interesting, because it doesn’t quite line up with many of the theories about the titular doors of stone, which it’s been speculated are more likely related to standing stones that lead to the Faen realm. This door has copper plates, which is significant in the Kingkiller world because copper supposedly doesn’t have a True Name. As we mentioned before, names have power in this world, and the strongest forms of magic come when you possess something’s True Name and therefore have power over it. Thus, the door is insulated from those who possess enough arcane knowledge to use Naming magic.

Some speculate that the door is connected to the Amyr, the secret order whose purpose is to oppose the Chandrian. If that’s the case, then it would make a lot of sense for it to come into play in the third book.