Theoryland of the Wheel of Time

Chicago

How do you think about reddit or the 17th shard and the Coppermind-- All the different theories going around? Do you ever find one that hits your plot line or something?

Oh yes. I don’t change it. I’m just like “There’s a smart person.” But what I learned in Wheel of Time fandom was that you can’t-- There is madness that lies in trying to change things once someone figures it out. Like particularly with the way that I do my plots, there’s foreshadowing so there’s someone who’s going to be able to figure it out. If they /can’t/ figure it out I haven’t put in the foreshadowing properly. So almost everything that I’ve put into the books, /somebody/ knows. Some of them are really obvious and everybody’s got it, and I’m okay with that because the people who don’t read the forums, a few of them will be surprised, but mostly it will be like “Yeah of course we know this Brandon. Of course we know yada yada yada” I don’t--I don’t *mutters* I think you’ve figured it out-- But there are things like that. But there are other little things that there are a dozen theories on, and one of them’s right.

Brandon on writing, fandom theories,

Calamity-Seattle

Was Adonalsium the one who created the cosmere universe as a whole?

That is widely assumed to be the case.

Brandon on fandom theories,

Bands of Mourning Release Party

Do you ever go on the 17th Shard just to see what randomness we do there?

Not often, but yes.

Brandon on fandom theories,