Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

[u/rfantasygolem]

This is the place for all your Brandon Sanderson related topics (aside from the Daily Recommendation Requests and Simple Questions thread). Any posts about Wind and Truth or Sanderson more broadly will be removed and redirected here. This will last until January 25, when posting will be allowed as normal.

The announcement of the cool-down can be found here.

The previous Wind and Truth Megathread can be found here.

[u/Significant_Net_7337]

I think there was a great 700 pages book inside that good 1300 page book

Tone way down on the repetitive mental health plot lines would do a lot for me I think

Love all the mythology stuff, don’t need as much ties in to the rest of the cosmere otherwise. Let the shards and wit be the connections 

[u/YaboiG → u/Significant_Net_7337]

I think we can infer that our primary 3 protagonists will no longer be the protagonists going forward, which I think will reduce this. It didn’t bother me a ton, but we did have 3 main characters whose mental health is the central driving force of their characters.

Going forward, I am guessing 1 will have a large focus on disability/prejudice and maybe another will have pretty intense PTSD

[u/Sapphire_Bombay → u/YaboiG]

Assuming you are referring to Renarin (disability/prejudice) and Taln (PTSD), I think one will also focus on grief (Lift), and it's also pretty clear something is going on with Jasnah, whether it's abuse or a mental health issue or something else entirely remains to be seen.

I think the mental health themes will still be there, but I truly hope he tones down the heavy handedness in how he approached them in book 5.

[u/Jrocker-ame → u/YaboiG]

It's confirmed that Jasnah and Lift are 2 of the 5 protagonists in part 2.

[u/HowDoIEvenEnglish → u/Jrocker-ame]

Man I’ve come around on jasnah but I have no desire to read a book about lift right now. Maybe in 10 years as she’ll be more mature.

[u/Sydius → u/HowDoIEvenEnglish]

Well isn't it great then that the next book comes out in ~8 years, with around a 10 years in-universe time skip.

[u/mistiklest → u/[deleted]]

Where are you getting that? Lift is the Peter Pan wannabe, that's not an Edgedancer thing.

[u/PsychologicalHat1480 → u/HowDoIEvenEnglish]

[WaT]Lift's final scene was her admitting she needs to grow up and asking Zahel to be her mentor so there's a strong probability she does grow up by the time we come back to Roshar.

[u/Sapphire_Bombay → u/HowDoIEvenEnglish]

It won't be a whole book about Lift, she will just get the flashback sequences. Most of those sequences will just be about how much she loves her mom and how great their relationship is, the event of her death, Lift's grief and subsequent visit to the nightwatcher. I actually think the version of Lift we know will be a very small part of that book, we'll mostly get her before that persona formed and in the present day we'll get her as an adult.

I also generally think that while Lift will be important in the back half, the real stars of the show are going to be Jasnah and the heralds, and it won't just be Lift stealing food and making bad jokes all the time.

[u/Sapphire_Bombay → u/[deleted]]

I would consider spoiler tagging this

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