Is there a chance that any dead protagonists will miraculously come back (IE Vin, Elend, Lightsong) to help fight later battles? You have shown Kelsier having influence after he died, and Sazed makes a statement about keeping in touch with Vin and Elend.
I don’t want to be unsympathetic to people’s love for these characters, but I feel that as a writer I must resist the urge to bring back characters in this manner. I feel it would undermine my storytelling. I never want to get to the point where people read and the tension of a character being in danger is ruined by the thought, “Well, even if they die, they’ll probably just be brought back in the future.”
I’m not saying I won’t ever do it, but I want to be very sparing. I like how Robert Jordan did it with a certain character’s return in TofM. It was foreshadowed, built into the story itself, and relevant.
There are characters–in the 36-book-cosmere-superoutline–who return when thought dead. Some have not met their perceived end yet, while others have. So it’s going to happen, but I want it to be very rare.
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