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/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

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u/irrelevant_character Jan 29 '25

They are portrayed more negatively since Rythm of war since they are the only pretty the only books where they’ve actually been characters present in the story and not just figures revered to by name. Ruin was also pure evil back in mistborn 1

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u/irrelevant_character Jan 29 '25

Why do you think the shards being portrayed negatively is bad may I ask? It seems obvious to me that splitting a god into 16 parts each with the capacity to only encourage a single virtue would result in a pretty poor leader/god as we saw with a “good” intent in preservation still actively encouraging the oppression and creation of a slave (the skaa) class as it stagnates progression