Hiç de saklamaz aslında. 2 yıl Mormon misyoneri olarak Güney Kore’de çalışmış. Kitaplarda bazı ilham aldığı şeyler vardı hatta.
Questioner
Where did you get the idea of the Elantris magic system?
Brandon Sanderson
The drawing glyphs is based on Korean and Chinese writing systems. I’m Mormon, I served a mission in Korea for two years, loved the writing system and the language. It was part of what inspired me to do that.(devam ediyor)
Questioner
I know you went on mission in Korea, as did I, did anything come from that?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, quite a number of things have been influenced by it. I’d say the biggest influence is Elantris, the writing system is based on the idea of Korean and Chinese mixed together. But Asian philosophy, like the kami and things like that are also common in Korea, that belief that everything has a soul. So yeah it’s had a huge influence on me, just the way I worldbuild-- I mean just the fact, I don’t know if you’ve read The Way of Kings … I don’t know if you know but everyone’s Asian, right? Like Szeth, the white dude, is the one that looks weird them. And that’s just because-- It was partially influenced by that.
Nathan Morris
Your books don’t have overtly Mormon characters in them, but they do contain many recognizable Mormon elements—especially in book three of the Mistborn trilogy, The Hero of Ages . How do you feel that your faith has influenced your writing?
Brandon Sanderson
Being an author, the story is what is most important to me. Theme and message are really secondary. I don’t go into a book saying, “I’m going to write a book about this.” In other words, I don’t want to preach with my books. What I want to do is have compelling, realistic characters who care about different things. Some care about religion, others don’t. By writing compelling characters who care about issues, I realize that what the characters care about tends to be influenced by what I care about. As for my faith, it is what primarily influences me because it makes me interested in certain topics. For instance, religion does tend to be a theme in my books. Yet if you read Elantris , my first published work, the religious figure was the primary antagonist. People have asked me, “Brandon, you’re religious—why are you painting religion so poorly in this book?” And my answer for them is that I’m not painting religion poorly. The misuse of religion is one of the things that scares me the most in life. Someone who is taking faith and twisting it and manipulating it is doing one of the most purely evil things that someone can do, in my opinion.(devam ediyor)