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Interview #533: Stomping on Yeti: Interview with Brandon Sanderson, Entry #8

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Will The Stormlight Archives have prolonged mystery to rival that of Asmodean’s murder?

Brandon Sanderson

You know, that’s really going to depend on the fans and what they latch on to. I think the first book has plenty of mysteries. But what makes Asmodean different is that everyone latched on to it and fell in love with it. As I’ve said, Robert Jordan was a genius at foreshadowing and subtlety. I’m not going to sit down and say, “I’m going to put in something like Asmodean.” I don’t think that’s something I could set out to put in. I just have to set out to write the best story I can, with plenty of mysteries and what’s going on behind the scenes. The whole Hoid thing is something that hopefully people will be curious about, because it’s supposed to be interesting. But I don’t think you can set out to write something to parallel Asmodean.

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