Goodreads member Joyshumaker says, “Many of Mr. Sanderson’s original books are very theologically based. I enjoy the complexities of the religions he creates but wonder what drives him to write literature that is so deeply theological, even if those theologies exist solely in these fictional worlds.”
I am a religious person, and so I am fascinated by religion and all of its aspects. I am fascinated by why people believe, why people don’t believe. I am fascinated by the motivations behind this, and I am fascinated by what happens when religion goes bad. I am fascinated by what happens when religion goes well. So what I am interested in ends up in my books.
Beyond that, it pops up time and time again because [my books] are all connected: I hid some recurring characters in Elantris and the Mistborn trilogy, and [readers] started to pick it up by the time Warbreaker came out. There is an underlying theme behind them all and an underlying deeper story that is going on behind the scenes with some big theological components. It’s within the thematic nature of the complete series—one that will eventually be told, assuming I live long enough. And if not, I’ll leave good notes, so someone else can finish it! Turnabout is fair play.
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