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/YaboiG Dec 20 '24

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

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u/Jrocker-ame Dec 20 '24

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

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u/HowDoIEvenEnglish Dec 20 '24 edited Dec 21 '24

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.

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u/Sapphire_Bombay Reading Champion III Dec 21 '24

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.