I've mentioned a couple of times now that I have a theory about why some of the earlier chapters of
The Name of the Wind are the way they are. Now that we're out of the framing narrative, I think it's time to expound on that a little. Simply put, my theory is this: after the Prologue,
Chapter 7 was originally the first chapter of the book, and Chapters 1-6 did not exist (at least in their current state) until a long time after the rest of
The Name of the Wind was written.