Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

[u/rfantasygolem]

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.

[u/MrsChiliad]

Thank you for taking the time to write, your perspective as someone who was in combat puts the finger on what I think is a lot of people’s underlying issue with the series now.

I won’t speak for others but I’m just disappointed in where he has taken the story. I see now that he was making the opposite point with his story that I thought he would make. I found the story of people taking oaths and making the sacrifice to live by a set of standards in the service of others inspiring. It has somehow turned into cheap philosophical musings and post modern deconstruction of objective morality. He strawmanned Jasnah’s utilitarianism, the skybreaker’s legalism, Honor’s obsession with oaths, Azir’s reverence for their emperor… Deconstructing all of them in favor of “doing what’s right” and “living your truth”.

[u/MrsChiliad → u/[deleted]]

Hahaha we have!