wotwiki

Interview #979: Reddit AMA 2013, Entry #87

Asmor ()

I don’t really have a question, I just want to say that the twist at the end of Well of Ascension absolutely blew my mind.

I specifically remember when Sazed noticed the Holy First Witness in the prophecy, I was surprised I hadn’t made that connection myself since I remember the prophecy so well. Then I get to the end where we learn about Ruin altering text, and thought that was an amazing plot twist, and I started wondering if you’d been altering the text in the passages at the beginning of chapters, since some of them were repeated a few times. THEN I suddenly remembered that the text originally referred to the Announcer, not the Holy First Witness, and . . . my mind was blown. That was one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced in any fiction I’ve read.

Brandon Sanderson

Thanks! I worked quite a lot on that one. Glad to see it worked for you.

Contributing

If you are viewing this on github.io, you can see that this site is open source. Please do not try to improve this page. It is auto-generated by a python script. If you have suggestions for improvements, please start a discussion on the github repo or the Discord.