The Slow Regard of Silent Things is set at The University where the brightest minds work to
unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences such as artificing and alchemy. Auri a former
student (and a secondary but influential character from Rothfuss's earlier novels) now lives
alone beneath the sprawling campus in a maze of ancient and abandoned passageways.There in The
Underthing she feels her powers and learns to see the truths that science - and her former
classmates -have overlooked
