This is very natural for us as writers, particularly in a big epic fantasy, and I felt that when I approached Stormlight there are a couple of things I did. It's very easy for the books to start blending into one another, and it's also very easy to let side characters take over books. One was that the further an epic fantasy series goes, the more important it is that you have a structure to the series. So when I sat down to build the Stormlight Archive, there were a couple of things that I learned from Wheel of Time. Half the ideas for the version of The Way of Kings you read came from that and half the ideas came from the original Stormlight Archive. Which is another book I wrote, which is where Dalinar started too. Bridge 4 isn't in that version of the book, Bridge 4 is actually in Dragonsteel. I'll someday release that book and you can read it and be horrified about this book where really really different things happen, and the characters half feel like themselves and half don't. Shallan and Kaladin are the people that I basically pulled out and replaced with new characters, because neither of them were working. ![]() Adolin and Renarin basically as the people that they ended up being. ![]() The young peasant boy trains to be a knight, that sort of thing and was just too familiar, I was playing the tropes and hitting the nails on the head, but in a way that was not interesting. Adolin was actually in that book, and so the first Kaladin didn't even become Adolin, like the first Kaladin was like, you've read this book before probably.
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