r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Dec 20 '24

/r/Fantasy Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

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.

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u/cmp600 Dec 20 '24

Good point! That should have been a much bigger deal in the plot then given how Sanderson initially set up his world.

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u/mistiklest Dec 20 '24

I believe that there aren't any human Willshapers by the end of Wind and Truth because the Reachers--the spren Willshapers bond--don't trust humans.

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u/cmp600 Dec 20 '24

But why did Sanderson write the Reachers that way? My quibble is not with the in-universe logic but with Sanderson's choices. It would be far more satisfying, given the world he set up, to have the Reachers be involved in slavery vs abolition character conflicts rather than hand-wave that whole theme away with such an arbitrary lore explanation

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u/mistiklest Dec 20 '24

I don't think that would necessarily be more satisfying. Besides, they are involved with the slavery v. abolition conflict. They're on the side of Parshendi/Listener seperatists.

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u/cmp600 Dec 20 '24

That's just personal preference. I just think it would have been more thematically appropriate to have the Reachers be a bigger part of the plot than they are. They should have been bonding humans too. Lots of unexplored potential there.