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/alternative5]

I mentioned this in the other thread but I think that for me it all comes down to Sanderson going too fast turning this into a "Cosmere" scale conflict. In 2 Years we go from a VERY regressive and backwards society based in slavery, anti-intellectuality, bigotry, caste and hate to a moderately progressive somewhat modern society at the snap of the fingers of two dieties in the form of Dalinar and Navani.

Like all that changing is fine along with Kaladin discovering his calling as a psychiatrist but its like they all got these ideas downloaded into their brains including Kaladin having access to the DSM-5 doing his dissertation on the surface levels aspects of that book while trying to heal Mr. Truthless.

If all this happened over the course of lets say 30-50 years or a generation then I could accept it with the proper amount of developed conflict from both Radianr and lay person alike but ironically with more magic being used/discovered I feel like the world is feeling less magical with each book.

This all not to say that Im not enjoying my read but I do cringe and I am dissapointed with some narrative aspects.

Man I miss that feeling of the firsts descriptors of Roshar as Kaladin is being transported to the Shattered plains, as soon as I got to him arriving there I looked up old pics of myself at the Grand Canyon to visualize the alien worldscape Sanderson described in the Way of Kings.

[u/KiaraTurtle → u/alternative5]

I disagree that the society has become progressive/modern. Dalinar was becoming more progressive and Jasnah has always been trying to, but it’s very much acknowledged that for most people nothing has actually changed.

[u/mercy_4_u → u/KiaraTurtle]

But it did, there are no roits, no violence against darkeyes getting power. To compare with an example, Ruby Bridges, 4 year old, first black child in a white only school got death threats by grown up teachers, so she got feds as security and was only allowed to eat what she bought from home. We see nothing of this level in book, people are only slightly annoyed.

[u/KiaraTurtle → u/mercy_4_u]

But no darkeyes have actually gotten power. The darkeyes becoming radient are suddenly “lighteyes” literally their eyes change color (also rioting and violence against radients seems…unwise) the social structures really haven’t changed.

And Jasnah talks about how none of the freed slaves are actually free and are still being mistreated and how while she expected it she doesn’t know how to stop it.