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Interview #1094: Salt Lake City Comic-Con 2014, Entry #18

Question

I do have one question, A Memory of Light couldn’t be better, except for the Padan Fain thing.

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, the Padan Fain thing is that I have a little bit of regret on that one. That’s the one thing– You see he didn’t leave anything about Fain at all. Just completely blank. That was worrisome to me. The only thing he said was “Padan Fain cannot be Gollum” actually, he wrote that in the notes. So I was left with trying to figure out what to do and in the end I feel it just ended up feeling tacked on because there were so many other things I was interested in doing and Padan Fain I had never really enjoyed as a character that much. You are seeing my biases come through on that. Looking back at it I’m like “I really should have done something more with him”. That’s the big one that I feel I would change, if I could change something.

Question

Cause it’s kind of a threat that goes away…

Brandon Sanderson

The other one is I would’ve liked for the viewpoint chapters from Demandred to be in the book instead of separated out and put in that charity anthology, but I didn’t have any say in that one.

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