Theoryland of the Wheel of Time

WOR Signing Report - Herowannabe (Verbatim)

When Sazed

You do know that I've got a character in one of the books named Bowen? [Clarification: My name is Bowen. He said this while personalizing our books]

Herowannabe

Really?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. He's actually been in the books so far, but not by name. He's one of the Worldhoppers. If you go look and talk to them they may have identified him, some people who have read.

Herowannabe

Thank you for naming a character after me!

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. I did it. He's from White Sand. I wrote the book in '98. Yeah, he's one of the Purelake guys.

Herowannabe

Is he Blunt?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, yeah. [...] (later) So yeah, Bowen, you'll have to see because when I redid the linguistics for the world, his name I think got changed. I think it's now Baon. But in the very first draft of the very first book I ever wrote his name was Bowen. And the reason I think I changed it - is because he's a bowman. And I'm like I can't name the bowman—the archer—Bowen. That's kinda dumb. But in my head he's still Bowen.

Herowannabe

Anyway, my question...

blunt, fan names in the books, crossover, worldhopping, white sand, stormlight archive, baon, unpublished works,

WOR-University Bookstore (Paraphrased)

I picked up the Easter Eggs for Mraize being a Worldhopper. It was actually the sand that did it, having been fortunate enough to read White Sand.

Now there's something odd about that sand. What color is the sand in WoR?

White Sand, unpublished works,

WOR-Omaha, NE

I have read White Sands and Aether of Night. Why aren't they published?

White Sands isn't published because I feel that Kenton doesn't have the depth of character that I like to have nowadays. He's more of an oldschool character of mine where he just isn't--personality wise doesn't have quite enough. Beyond that, I feel that White Sands is narrative. It meanders a little too much. I felt that if I cut 50k words and fix them, we would have a good book. Aether is not published because I feel that I wrote two different books and didn't blend them together very well. There's kind of the farcical Shakespearean switch-places-silliness and it's fun but it's like mistaken identity almost, sort of stuff, and the romance. Mixed with these dark things are coming out of the shardpools and destroying the world. And these two stories never meshed together well enough for me to want to publish it. White Sand one more revision, we're trying to go to graphic novel. I'm not sure what I could do with Aether of Night.

white sand, aether of night, unpublished works, brandon on writing,

JordanCon 6 - Cosmere questions

Did the original sixteen Shardholders all know each other?

Yes they at least-- Yes, I would say that they did.

shardholders, yolen, unpublished works,

Harold Washington Library Center-AU Tour (Paraphrased)

Are the Shards from Aether not canon?

Aether of Night is not intended to be canon anymore. The thing is, I’m trying to work it back into the Cosmere, so when it’s done there are going to be dramatic changes.

Aether of Night, unpublished works, canon,