Item from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
An ancient Adem sword given to Kvothe by Shehyn when he earned the right to leave Ademre. It has a long history of named owners and is called Saicere in the Adem tongue — meaning 'to break, to catch, to fly.'
Caesura is not just a weapon — it is a lineage. The Adem keep a record called the Atas for each of their named swords, listing every owner stretching back centuries. Kvothe renamed it Caesura, a poetic term meaning a break in a line of verse, because Kvothe cannot help but name things. The Adem call this a deep discourtesy. The sword has survived longer than most nations and has been carried by warriors whose stories fill volumes. In Kvothe's hands, it has tasted blood in the Eld and wherever else his story took him. That it now sits unnamed on the wall of a quiet inn — if Folly is indeed Caesura — is either the saddest part of the story or the most ominous.
A slender, elegant sword with a blade that holds an edge beyond what ordinary steel should allow. The metal has a faint grey sheen, and the hilt is wrapped in worn leather darkened by centuries of hands. It is lighter than it looks and balanced with an almost musical precision.
Also known as: Caesura, Saicere, Kvothe's sword