The Kandra were my favorite part of the Mistborn series. What was your inspiration for them? What was your inspiration for the style you used for their names?
Additionally, where do you look to for inspiration for character names?
I’ve answered above about character names, though there is a lot of variety to the ways I can answer that–since there’s no one place I get name inspiration.
For the kandra, I started with the idea that a thieving crew would need a good “inside man” type, who could do costumes. None of the powers fit this, but I knew I also wanted to foreshadow Hemalurgy. From there, developing them was an organic process digging deeply into the history and worldbuilding I was doing.
The idea of the wolfhound kandra appealed to me a great deal before even starting the first book, and was where I targeted my plotting after it struck me.
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