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Brandon Sanderson's Use of Horror

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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The Pursuit of a Dark Fantasy Setting

The world of eraan could have easily been a dark fantasy setting. The only thing that gets in the way is just how brandon frames it, right? And i thinkbrandon has said in interviews and stuff, how he's not interested, and the character types that interest him are the people who of rise above their circumstances. He likes heroes. Brandon likes heroes. Even when he's playing with these dark phantasy elements, ultimately his protagonists are going to follow a more heroic path,. i thinkili as we said in the beginning, this is an episode talking about horror, but it's still brandon.

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