King Lopen Confusion

[KalaDANG he/him]

I'm just really confused about where this came from. I know he was technically king for a little bit, and that he asks to get added to the list of Alethi Kings. What happened that made him technically king? I'm really confused.

Edited July 27, 2018 by KalaDANG

[Calderis he/him]

He wasn't really, at least not in a way that anyone other than him and his family would recognize. 

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Brandon Sanderson

For instance, Lopen did become king of Alethkar. For a short time. Because he and his family hid King Elhokar and, at least in his perception, convinced the king to abdicate for a short time so they could not lie when they said "We don't have King Elhokar with us." This is canon, okay. And, so, Lopen became... In his mind, at least, they got the king to agree for a fifteen-minute "Lopen is king of Alethkar" abdication, so that they wouldn't have to lie (because it was very important to them), so they could get him out of danger when some people were looking for him. That story, some day I might write it, I don't know if I'll ever be able to. But when he says (I think he references that at some point in one of the later books) "I was king," he really was!

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