Axis m'Troutilas
Gaidin
OMG
How do you know this?!
Maybe her death was a note from Jordan?
Because I watch what Sanderson is up to like a hawk.
Reference for you.
Interview: 2013
Twitter 2013 (WoT) (Verbatim)
Can (13 January 2013)
@Terez27 Do we know which character is dead by Harriet's choice?
Terez
Bela. @BrandSanderson told us twice that she would survive. But apparently Harriet later insisted she should die.
Brandon Sanderson (13 January 2013)
Yeah. Harriet felt that we had painted that character into a corner, and the story demanded that conclusion.
Daniel Shepard
Is that the GRRM moment? Or the character that was gonna recover from their injuries?
Brandon Sanderson
Character was going to recover.
Brandon Sanderson
She was right to make that call, but it does turn me into a liar. That's what I get for speaking too soon...
Werthead
That does seem slightly ludicrous. I think the fanbase turned Bela into a bit of a meme.
Brandon Sanderson
True, but I will note that Harriet personally has a special fondness for her.
Question
Any spoilers for A Memory of Light?
Brandon Sanderson
Let's see here. Harriet killed a character in the book that I did not intend to kill. So I wrote the entire book with a character living and she killed this character.
Question
Did she tell you right before you finished, or what?
Brandon Sanderson
She sent back the draft and said "This person dies."
Question
So did you have to change a lot?
Brandon Sanderson
So they succumb to their wounds. I intended them to live, so there is a character who died unexpectedly. So that's a slight spoiler. There is like a chapter that's over a hundred pages. It's a Super Chapter.
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