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    Shardcast: Endowment

    Josh said during the podcast that Brandon does a good job keeping his LDS faith out of his writing. I'm just jumping in here with a comment that the whole system of how Radiants work is definitely inspired by the LDS endowment, whether consciously on Brandon's part or not. The endowment is a story about people making increasingly demanding promises to god about what kind of person they will be, going through a testing phase where they prove that they will keep those promises, then getting a reward for it, and making more promises. Sound similar to the Ideals of the Radiants? Yeah. Then there's the whole notion of humans becoming gods, and just the themes Brandon chooses to write about and the way that he writes them; it's pretty obvious to someone who grew up LDS that Brandon is a product of his culture. Not that that's a bad thing (we all are), just saying that there are plenty of influences of Brandon's LDS faith on his writing, if you know where to look.
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