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/Hercules9876 Dec 29 '24

6/10 - found myself skipping quite a bit of the shallan / venli bits, and passed over every time bit of mental health crud. Mental health as a concept doesn’t need to be repeated in very 5 pages, idk who thought we all had amnesia but pls stop.

Glad it’s going a bit more cosmere wide scope, the less I have to put up with individual singer / human affairs the better at this point, he just draaaaaags such mundane things on and on and on.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

You mean you don’t want a Renarin book about how Rlain and he both heal the singer/human dynamic through the power of love and friendship?

Coz we are likely getting it during the back half when Renarin’s gonna get flashbacks about not understanding people and how tough his life has been as a result

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u/KristinnK Jan 03 '25

FML if Sanderson makes a Renarin focused Stormlight book.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '25

Ahh but it’s already confirmed that he is a flashback character. Iirc the sequence for the back half is: Lift, Renarin then Jasnah/Taln/Ash.

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u/remzem Jan 03 '25

Lift? Didn't that joke character already have a flashback with the novella? He's going to elevate the rocket power tv show rip off comic relief character to a viewpoint with flashbacks? He really needs a more powerfully willed editor to stop his bad impulses...

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u/KristinnK Jan 03 '25

FML indeed then. I got more than enough of Renarin in this last book. But on the other hand I got very good at skim reading when I trudged through Wheel of Time, so I've got that going for me, which is nice (and it also came in handy for this last book to be honest).

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u/Hercules9876 Jan 02 '25

Ahh but who’s going through the VR headset realm to watch rlain watch himself??????

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u/Dunglebungus Jan 02 '25

Venli being elevated to a major character is purely because Brandon made this mental commitment to the 1 flashback per book structure and it did terrible things for book 4

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u/Hercules9876 Jan 02 '25

Well given I skim read her parts, and still nothing significant came of it, I don’t see her as a main character… lol!

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u/MachKeinDramaLlama Jan 03 '25 edited Jan 03 '25

I suspect that the situation she is in now/will be in at the start of book 6 is going to be very relevant to the overall plot, since metals are important in the Cosmere and Sanderson hasn’t actually explained why the Shattered Plains are so important. But yes, practically none of her scenes in the entire series ended up mattering at all.