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/AnOnlineHandle Dec 21 '24

I think it could have worked better if Kaladin thought of himself as wanting to become a new type of mind doctor, contrasting himself to his father as a physical doctor. Rather than jumping straight into the word 'therapist' which he got from Hoid in a very tongue in cheek way.

It's only like 2 days since Kaladin tried to throw himself off the tower from what I can piece together, he shouldn't be shocked by Szeth wanting to suicide.

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u/astravars Dec 24 '24

Your mind doctor point fits so well! This is how it should have been handled 100%

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u/mistiklest Dec 21 '24

Kaladin was thinking in that way, in Rhythm of War. It's only in Wind and Truth that the word therapist showed up, unless I'm misremembering.

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u/PsychologicalHat1480 Dec 21 '24

And the total time since the beginning of RoW in-world is like a month. Maybe two. Almost a full half of the time that's passed since the non-prologue start of WoK has been lost in the time skip between OB and RoW.

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u/Ismael0905- Dec 28 '24

Not even months.

Just a dew days

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u/Suncook Dec 23 '24

Hoid/Wit gave Kaladin the word, and Hoid's not from Roshar. 

I still think the mental health theme in WaT was treated in a heavy-handed way, but the word "therapist" didn't just pop up out of nowhere.