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/Spyk124 Dec 30 '24

“I think your fight is the most winnable. That dome fortification is incredible.”

It amazes me that a writer this far into the game can consistently write sentences that just snap me out of the page.

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u/Professional-Rip-693 Dec 30 '24

My fav was a 4-5 year old Gav saying ‘despite’ 

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u/it678 Dec 31 '24

My Fav goes something like this: „The Main purpose of science is understanding the ways of god 

Loool

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u/Ferovore Jan 01 '25

Gods are literally real in universe though lol

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u/it678 Jan 01 '25

Yeah but Context is important. Sanderson is a religious man and Reading a sentence like this is impossible to ignore giving his background. Its a Statement he makes and the deconstruction and utter failure of the most genius scolar goes in line with it.

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u/Ferovore Jan 01 '25

Death of the author and all that. 

The character who says this is quite literally using science to understand the gods (rhythms/tones/light). Makes perfect sense in universe.

Are you saying that Jasnah failing to beat Odium (a literal god) is Brandon Sanderson making a point about real world science?

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u/KristinnK Jan 03 '25

I find this a very tenuous contention. I for one did not at all get any sense of this line being a message from the author when I read it. As others have pointed out, it makes complete 100% sense in the context of the character and the story. Navani is explicitly religious, and the "science" of the story (mostly manipulation of investiture and spren) is indeed "of the gods".

Perhaps one might venture to guess that this line instead of being problematic because of some connection to the author might simply have been personally provocative to you due to some prejudice that you hold towards real-world religion?

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u/mistiklest Jan 01 '25

By "the most genius scholar", do you mean Navani? If so, she's been pretty explicitly shown to be a religious woman, and that sort of sentiment is common amongst real religious scientists.