How do you keep track of all those characters?
Lots of use of online resources. Also, Maria and Alan are invaluable assets for that. Brandon told a funny story about trying to figure out who was with Perrin, and Maria pulled out some notes from Robert Jordan that had a list of every single person from the Two Rivers that came with Perrin! Brandon also said he thinks there are more than 2800 named characters throughout the entire series.
Brandon has told the story of the “with Perrin” file a numer of times before; in this example from 2009 , the person he said that he queried was Alan. Other times, he has just cited “RJ’s assistants”.
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