Sanderson is a really big fan of magic that sounds fun but then is secretly hella dark and probably has to do with killing souls.
Hey look this magic lets you see pretty colors and hear music better and animate corpses. How'd you get that magic? Oh I ate someone's soul. Don't worry they're fine, they just can't experience beauty anymore.
Look Look eat the metal and you can do cool stuff like yeet yourself in the air or run super fast. Eat the metal and you can become superman.
Or alternatively, you could STAB someone with the metal and STEAL THEIR SOUL! They will be very dead and it will be very messy. But look you have magical powers plus cool new jewelry
Here on Roshar you get magical powers, a built-in best friend/therapist, and a kick ass sword. But if you fuck up at all that new friend of yours will die and you will personally be responsible for killing a tiny part of god. Have fun!
So, in Tress, Hoid has lost his senses to the point where he's running around in socks and sandals. In Yumi, he's a coatrack and Design lovingly painted him. Then in The Sunlit Man, Sigzil told him to fuck off and never apologized afterwards.
People in the cosmere really do get what they deserve.
One of the many things I love about Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is that Brandon Sanderson gives us BOTH “chosen by the spirits due to chance” and “chosen by the spirits on merit”
He said yeah sure what you were born as is important to who you are but whats more important is what you do with the opportunities given
hey tumblies, I finished all the brandon sanderson secret project books and was thinking about donating them to my local library because they aren't available for purchase until like january: is that a good idea ? any reason not to ?
The people of Canticle adopting Sigzil and naming him Zellion and forging a Connection with him and oh my gosh oh my gosh that was so beautiful it's like found family to the max
Maybe the prompt doesn’t fit a hundred percent, but I’ve been itching to elaborate on that thumbnail sketch since I’ve made it after reading the Sp4 preview earlier this year.