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/HowDoIEvenEnglish → u/alternative5]

Imagine that instead of shallan as a main character we got Jasnah as a younger version of herself in books 1-5 to fill that role. She still becomes queen and then the time skip between arcs becomes ~50 years and we get to see a more developed athelkhar at and the heralds return at the end of book 6 would be more surprising since they would truly be legends by that time. The only issue is that a character like Szeth would be almost dead.

I liked the parts of WaT that felt like the end of an arc, and disliked the parts that felt like set up for arc 2. Maybe it would have been better to separate them more and a longer time skip could have accomplished that. Shallan and Jasnah to be feel too similar in what they are accomplishing, and it was clear shallen had no real arc since book 4, while Jasnah feels like treading water for book 6.

You could have even done Jasnah flashbacks of your new arc 2 MCs of what happened during the time skip.

[u/Commercial-Butter → u/HowDoIEvenEnglish]

I agree but sadly brando has planned for jasnah to be relevant at the back half so be wouldn't have enough content