(split from another question) …And a question chosen vicariously for another friend: has the Creator been very intimately and directly connected to the story, or is he kind of like the absent god, where he set things in motion and left?
(split from another question) …And then, the question of the role of the Creator, by which you mean God, not the writer?
Yes, exactly. [laughter]
As you know, he said he didn’t believe writers who said, “I just work to a certain point and then the characters take it over.” He said, “I don’t believe that for a minute.” [laughter] Actually, what he said was, “ I am Old Testament god, and my fist is in the middle of my characters’ lives.” But the way he envisions the Light in these books is that they have a very immediate sense of the Creator, which is— they don’t need churches , because he’s right there for them. Not that they don’t believe; they believe so deeply that they live their lives in a sense of God, the Creator.
And the question is also, has the Creator been intimately connected to Rand’s journey? Did the Creator purposefully set Rand up to be the Dragon Reborn?
I think only in the sense that the Creator is perceived by the characters as being pretty intimately involved in all their lives.
Thank you. Tai’shar!
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