

That said, some of the notes contradicted each other, so not everything could come in. “Everything that Jim wrote, I put in the book in some way.” When writing the final three books in The Wheel of Time series, Sanderson worked off notes provided by Robert Jordan before his death, and he was careful to honor them. “I don’t think there are any scraps or fragments ,” he said. Robert Jordan’s “twist” on the ending for The Wheel of Time It has thorns!’ It just did not work…It did not fit thematically…It had to go for the strength of the opening narrative. And then you jump back and the girls were like, ‘I like this branch that I’m weaving into the bridal wreath.


Once in a while you get something that sticks out like a sore thumb and this was one because it was opposite the Talmanes scenes – going into Camelyn – and the dramatic scenes of people getting stabbed by Mydraal and nearly dying and all of this…It was more powerful…it was really nice tense stuff. “I wanted to get Rand engaged, have the bridal wreath, and have all three of them weave it together and use Aiel tradition…It was a really great scene. “It was actually really cool,” Sanderson said. According to Sanderson, it was sort of “silly” and didn’t mesh well with the brutal, ongoing attack on Caemlyn. It focused on protagonist Rand al’Thor getting engaged and involved Aviendha, Elayne and Min putting together bridal wreaths according to Aiel custom. Sanderson reveals that there was an unreleased chapter from towards the start of A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and final book in the series, and the third that he wrote after Jordan’s death.

The Wheel of Time series ended in 2013, but that doesn’t mean fans have read everything.
