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Your search for the tag 'Brandon on naming' yielded 9 results
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Interview: Jan 24th, 2015
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Have you thought of titles for the rest of the Stormlight Archive? Are they names of books in-world?Brandon Sanderson
No, I only named the first five when I was doing my outline. They were Stones Unhallowed, Oathbringer, and I don’t like the other name so I’m not going to mention it. Yes, they are all names in-world.Tags
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Interview: Jan 24th, 2015
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Do you consider Kaladin a paladin?Brandon Sanderson
You know, that is partially why I came up with the name. He was named something else in the original draft and it just didn’t work. So I’m like “I need a new...” Yeah.Tags
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Interview: Feb 20th, 2015
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How do you come up with the ideas for the powers and the names of the Epics?Brandon Sanderson
The names are actually really hard because comic book heroes, there are so many names they’ve already used. And so I have to a lot of searching and thinking and it’s usually my fifth choice. Lots of looking in the thesaurus for “alright was a word that is like this one that has been used way too often”. The powers I’m look for usually something cool that somebody has done in a movie or a book or a comic book that I don’t think they extrapolated far enough. I’m like “No that’s not how it would really work. This is how I think it would really work” and kind of taking my own spin on it.Tags
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Interview: Oct 12th, 2015
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Is there a particular reason behind the spelling, or is it just coincidence that Kelsier and Kaladin are both K-names?Brandon Sanderson
Just coincidence. Kaladin's original name was Merin, and it was a weak name that didn't work for me, so I changed it. It took me forever to find a good name for him. It comes from "paladin". Not the inworld origin, but that was the word that inspired it. It was more that I was searching for sounds, and I realized it sounded a bit like paladin, but I was okay with that. Just like Elantris sounds a little bit like Atlantis. It's not like I was purposely choosing it. I just liked the sound of it.Tags
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Interview: Oct 12th, 2015
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Why did you call it Shadows for Self?Brandon Sanderson
There are two answers to this. One is the kandra are kind of doing different versions of themselves. The other is that Wax is trying to decide which person he is, through this. The term "shadows of self" is actually a phrase that one of the kandra use in the first trilogy talking about this idea of changing who they are and things like that, so the phrase had import to me in-world.Tags
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Interview: Oct 9th, 2015
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Do you have a name for the veil, or the division, between realms?Brandon Sanderson
I’ve had like three of four different names, but I haven’t settled on one yet.Tags
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Interview: Feb 22nd, 2016
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Is it significant that Paalm’s name does not follow the standard kandra naming convention?Brandon Sanderson
It does [follow the convention]. It’s not always written that way, but it is. Good question.Tags
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Interview: Apr 8th, 2016
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Is Yolen named after Jane Yolen?Brandon Sanderson
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Yes, ok. I've always wondered.Brandon Sanderson
One of the early fantasy books I read was Dragon's Blood, and so I named it after her.Tags
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Interview: Feb 20th, 2016
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How do you build names?Brandon Sanderson
Third of the time, makes up linguistics, third of the time steals a convention from something in Earth, a third of the time is like Reckoners where he just comes up with it.Tags