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Interview #971: AMOL Signing Report - Terez, Entry #5

Terez

Then Kiley had a question. She’s very soft-spoken so I’m not sure I got it all down right.

Kiley Daniel

So how much, either consciously or unconsciously, do the diary entries from the Lord Ruler reflect the Rand-type characters?

Brandon Sanderson

That’s the pitch to myself for Mistborn, years ago: “What if Rand failed, and decided to take over the world instead?” basically. It’s more than that, though; it’s, you know” “What if Frodo kept the ring? What if the hero from the monomyth failed, and instead became the tyrant?” And so, I consciously evoked that.

Kiley Daniel

So did you ever see in that through the end, so that Rand didn’t go….like, this is really similar, ever?

Brandon Sanderson

Not specifically, but you know, I was basing the idea off of that, yeah.

Kiley Daniel

It was like, “This could be Rand’s diary,” you know.

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