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Interview #1101: Mistborn: The Well of Ascension Annotations, Entry #55

Brandon Sanderson

Straff is generally everyone’s least favorite character—though that’s kind of what I expected. He’s not insane; he’s just a terrible person. Those do, unfortunately, exist—given his power and upbringing, he’s not all that surprising in his bullyness.

I wanted to provide a range of villains for this series. The Lord Ruler was one type of villain—the untouchable god, distant and mysterious. Straff is another: the downright, simple bully with too much power and not enough wisdom. Zane is our third villain—sympathetic, edgy, and possibly more dangerous than either of the two.

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