Closer to Earth: The Adem believe that women are morally superior to men and that only women can teach the Lethani because they understand it better and are better fighters because of it. What Happened to the Mouse?: Skarpi has yet to reappear, and we haven't heard anything about his fate.

Blue-and-Orange Morality: Felurian. Kvothe specifically notes that she's not evil, it's just her nature. The Fae overall seem to play by a different set of rules. Bast seems to understand basic human morality, though he occasionally chooses not to follow it. Magic Music: It's implied that the "true names" of faeries sound like musical notes. The Adem, who consider singing indecent, mention "songs of power" in one very old story. Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: When Kvothe gets drugged with a poison that completely removes his ability to judge morality, he can't figure out which is worse, killing a man or stealing a pie. But when it's suggested he might ravage Fela if he saw her naked, he just says, "I could never do that. Just like I couldn't eat a stone or walk through a wall." Tossing aside the cloth, Bast made his way through the empty tables and chairs to the wide windows of the inn. He stood there for a long moment, looking at the dirt road running through the center of the town. Mastrangeli, Tony (2019-05-24). "Greater Than Games has acquired Cheapass Games". Board Game Quest . Retrieved 2021-11-04.Oh perfect, a musician on top of everything else." The Adem, part of whose hat is being The Stoic, consider musicians equivalent with prostitutes because they express their emotions. To whole rooms. For money. Again and again.

The Casanova: Subverted — Kvothe discovers that, as much as the ladies might be interested in him, their idea of what constitutes a working relationship involves more emotional commitment than he can offer.The Stoic: The Adem believe that showing emotion in public is unseemly. They're so committed to maintaining stoic expressions that they instead use hand signals to express emotion and add subtext to their words.