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The short fiction is collected in the anthology Arcanum Unbounded, btw.
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How characters are described vs how the appear in your head.
MasterGhandalf replied to ChetLee's topic in Cosmere Discussion
A couple from me (mostly about characters' hair, for some reason): I've always pictured Straff as having a short beard from his earliest appearances in Final Empire, despite the text stating he'd only grown his beard recently in WoA and that they are, in fact, unfashionable for aristocratic men ("I set the fashion now, boy!"). In a similar vein, I can't help but picture Marsh as bald even before he has to shave his head to impersonate an obligator. Hrathen I've always imagined as an older man with mostly grey hair, even though per Elantris he's only in his early forties and his hair is still a pretty solid black. I also tend to picture the dakhor as having more extensive body modifications, including bony armored plates and talons, than the book or Word of Brandon indicates they have. Susebron I always want to picture as bald, even though he's supposed to be dark-haired. And when I first read Mistborn I kept wanting to picture the Inquisitors as sort of steampunky-cyborgs, with more elaborate mechanical prosthetics besides just spikes (I think the fact that I'd just recently watched Avatar the Last Airbender for the first time and was getting my wires crossed with Combustion Man*, who's a bit like an Inquisitor in that he's a creepy, physically imposing powerhouse who pursues the heroes to kill them on behalf of an evil empire, may have been the problem). Fortunately, reading Hero of Ages and getting a good idea of how hemalurgy actually works cured me of this one. *In a similar vein, my mental image of the Lord Ruler looks very similar to Avatar's big bad, Fire Lord Ozai, except clean shaven and in different clothes. Of course, Ozai already looks fairly close to how TLR is described - they're both tall, powerfully built, relatively youthful-looking evil overlords with pale skin and long black hair - so in this case it's less of an issue. -
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Who in the Cosmere so far is the Most Evil?
MasterGhandalf replied to Xaladin's topic in General Brandon Discussion
There are evil characters in the Cosmere who have greater raw malice (Dilaf), have bigger ambitions that have hurt/likely will hurt more people (pretty much any hostile Shard, Taravangian, probably the Ghostbloods) or have incurred more fandom wrath by personally wronging one of the heroes (Amaram, Sadeas, Moash), but in terms of just plain being a thoroughly repulsive human being - Straff. It's got to be Straff. If he'd been going off a checklist of "how can I be the most appalling person I can be in every aspect of my life?" I don't think he could have been much worse than he actually was. I mean, even Sadeas had (very few) redeeming qualities, like genuinely loving Ialai, and he understood higher ideals at least enough to pay lip service to them; Straff's got zilch.
