Finally, we have Hrathen, a Fjordell priest whose mission is to convert the Arelish to Shu-Dereth. Raoden, the prince of Arelon, who is taken by the Shaod and becomes an Elantrian, and so is exiled to their city. We see action from three perspectives: Sarene, a tall, gangly lady of twenty-five who is, by the standards of her people, already safely on her way (if not already arrived at) spinsterhood.
Sanderson, as is his wont, builds an utterly intriguing world quite unlike our own, populates it with an assortment of mysteries, and then brings it all together into an avalanche of a conclusion. Many an infodump, many a paragraph and passage where I said " I could've written better." Past that it was much smoother and much more satisfying. I found the first hundred pages a rough read. Abraham's prose is silky-smooth, lyrical and beautiful, and Bakker's is intelligent and even philosophical. Many of the themes he's gone on to explore, many of the ideas about magic and world, appear in earlier form here.Īnd I do mean "primordial." Coming off of reading Bakker and Abraham, reading Sanderson's prose at the beginning of his career was a bit of a jolt to the system. I suspect that the way I came to this is not the ideal way for anyone to come to Elantris, because before reading this - long before reading this - I'd read the original Mistborn trilogy (which is sitting in my bookshelf) and all the presently-released books of The Stormlight Archive (the first two twice).Ĭoming into Elantris from his later, more famous, more polished works, it's basically "primordial Brandon Sanderson," from my perspective. In terms of profile, only Tolkien and Martin exceed him and of other fantasy writers today only Rothfuss can match him. Just last month, the ambitious multimedia Dark One project was announced, encompassing novels, graphic novels, a podcast, and a television series. In 2016, the entire Cosmere universe (encompassing most of his work, though not all of it) was licensed by DMG Entertainment.
In 2010, he published the first book of the planned ten-book Stormlight Archives series. Since then he's become one of the biggest fantasy writers in the world,: impressed with the first Mistborn, he was chosen by Robert Jordan's widow Harriet McDougal to finish The Wheel of Time series. A year and a half later, he submitted the manuscript of his sixth novel (by 2003 he had written twelve, all unpublished) and Elantris was published April 21st, 2005. Alas, eternity ended ten years ago.Īfter nearly a decade writing stories, Brandon Sanderson was contacted by Tor editer Moshe Feder: we want to buy one of your books. Elantris: home of gods who walked among men, worshiped for eternity.
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