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Interview #977: Cosmere Q&A - 17th Shard, Entry #202

Arcanist

  1. And related to this last question: most of your heroes are true traditional “heroes”, because they want to be useful for the family/society/other, and they often lack selfish, “dirtier” motivations. Will we sometimes see characters, who are not villains but are rather egocentric?

Brandon Sanderson

Kelsier. :) Expanding that, however, I feel that in general, other people are telling stories about “dirtier” characters and doing it well. I don’t feel characters who are generally good characters are any less realistic, however–in fact, almost everyone I know is more like Vin or Dalinar. They want to be good people, they TRY to be good people. Fantasy has taken a very dark turn in many ways, and this is fine, but it is not the type of story or characters in which I am interested. That doesn’t mean I won’t ever do it. There are some far more borderline characters mixed into some of the series, but they are more the exception than the rule.

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