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Title: Inspiration for Vin?
Post by: JLVin on June 02, 2009, 03:45:29 AM

Hi Brandon:

Where/who was the inspiration behind Vin? My professor says that he recommended your books to me because Vin reminded him a lot of me, and so I was curious...

Best, Ellie

Title: Re: Inspiration for Vin?
Post by: Bastille on June 02, 2009, 10:54:21 AM

Um, JLVin, Brandon doesn't really come on here allot because of his hard work as an author. His last visit was like last year and with WoT and WAY OF KINGS going he has allot of work to do. Maybe you would get a better (and quicker) response is you emiled him.  ;)

Title: Re: Inspiration for Vin?
Post by: IngtarWhoStoleChristmas on June 02, 2009, 02:27:42 PM

http://brandonsanderson.com/contact

Best place to do it. :-)

Title: Re: Inspiration for Vin?
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on June 02, 2009, 06:15:48 PM

The basic answer though is that there was not any person who inspired Vin. If you read through the annotations on the website you can see where he got various ideas for aspects of the characters. Very few of them are based on actual people.