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Brandon Sanderson / Re: ***SPOLIERS Official Hero of Ages Spoilers Thread. Includes Q&A w/Brandon****
« on: October 29, 2008, 08:04:02 AM »
And that would lead to hat tricks, and I'd be happy.
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I have one question, and it NEEDS to be answered. When did they discover the game of cricket?The characters don't speak English, so what we read is a translation into our language. Elend in his native language actually used an in-world equivalent metaphor, possibly one which involved a set of four rather than three.
Page 192 "Plus. you've managed --in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancee. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick" (Bolding is mine)
The term hat trick was invented for cricket, and adapted to other sports (notably hockey), first used in the 1880s. That one line took me out-of-world for a good five minutes.
Also, Elend can't count, because hat trick is 3, and she killed 4.
I do think it's a good idea to pay attention to anachronism when using metaphors and idoms, but that's also something that can be taken too far—for example, trying not to use any words with latinate roots because there was never a former empire of that type in the universe you're writing in. That would probably be impossible because English is what English is, and the book is written in English.
The Warbreaker story pretty much ends in the first book (everyone's character arc finishes), but it definitely needs a sequel. I'm not sure at what point Brandon decided this.Not everyone's arc finishes...its been a few months since I read it and completely forget character names, but "the dude with the talking sword" opened up a whole lot of potential follow up material at the end.