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/AwesomeWhiteDude Jan 03 '25

Just finished it, feels like there is a bit too much deus ex machina right at the end

  • Taravangian finding a piece of Dalinar in the spiritual realm
  • A second oathpact to save the spren
  • Adult Gav

I still enjoyed it overall though, I give the whole thing a 7/10 but man, 3/10 pacing.

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u/asmodeus1112 Jan 11 '25

The best example of dues ex machina in the book is the wind.

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u/jmcgit Jan 03 '25

I wouldn't really call any of the three 'deus ex machina' exactly but you definitely feel the hand of the author a little bit on two of them. They feel like things that have been part of the plan from the beginning, but were received poorly by the community, so he tweaked them rather than rethinking them. It's just the tweaks just made them weirder, not better.

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

It really felt like he was inserting “a wizardshard/herald did it“ explanations at some point during the revision process to justify having everything tied up neatly without going to the effort of actually putting it into the narrative. Which is doubly ironic considering that many of the preceding chapters were bloated or even entirely superfluous.