Which which eye did Gaz lose? Left eye Which arm did Lopen Lose? Left Arm What did Lopen do to get on Bridge Four? Someone just thought he was annoying. Lopen is the only person in Bridge Four who’s not a criminal. It’s just like, “Oh, that stupid Herdazian. Send…

For those of you who don’t know, the character’s original name was Merin. The change was a very hard decision because the history of Way of Kings goes back so far. I started writing about and working on Merin as a character in the year 2000, so he’d been around…

Kaladin’s entire sequence, with the flashbacks and things, was decided on early on, but remember I’d written this book once before. At the end of his flashback sequences, he makes a decision. Where this book deviates from the original I wrote in 2003 is that in the old version he…

One of the aspects of writing characters like them is that if we’re not going to get viewpoints from them, their personality has to be strong enough to manifest externally. Which tends to have an effect, if it’s not done well–or sometimes even if it is done well–of making them…

The character who became Dalinar actually began life back in the very first novel I started writing when I was a teenager. He’s the aging warlord, the man who was a bloodthirsty berserker in his youth but is now beginning to question his society’s concept that war is an end…

I wrote the parts by viewpoint. Meaning that for Part One, I wrote Kaladin straight through and then Shallan straight through. And then I switched for Part Two and wrote Dalinar and Kaladin, and then I switched back. So I did write the storylines individually by viewpoint, but in sections…