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Questioner
Is there a significance between Harmony and Discord being musical terms? And would they be considered different Investiture tones?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes and no. So what's going on here is that... it is significant, I chose those two terms very specifically. Not gonna tell you a lot about Discord or things like that, but the idea is that idea of Harmony is in... the sounds are in harmony, they are working together. In Discord they are not. I wouldn't call them Investiture tones, more the way the two tones are responding to each other.
Cheyenne Sedai
The epigraph that mentions Discord in The Final Empire is the same chapter where Sazed is introduced. Was that intentional and meant as a way of foreshadowing?
Brandon Sanderson
I want to say yes, but the truth is, I did what I always do, which is I wrote the epigraphs in one long thing after I finished the book, and then I spaced them out. Now, it's been almost twenty years. Maybe I'm like, "Oh, I should make sure of this and that for things that are happening here." But the honest truth is that I can't say that I did that on purpose. That would have been really a clever thing to do! But serendipity.
Again, I write the epigraphs, almost always, as a big section, and then I slice them up and I try to make sure they look good at the start. They're written, oftentimes, as a big paragraph that I'm then slicing up and then revising to make sure it works in its own little thing. And sometimes I'm taking pieces of one and moving it forward.
So the answer to that is, pretend I'm that smart, but I don't think I actually was.
Questioner
Last time you said that his name, if it wasn’t Harmony, it would be something else. Is it Discord?
Brandon Sanderson
This is relevant.
Questioner
It is relevant?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Shallan's Ward
While Sazed holds Preservation and Ruin, could his intent change from Harmony to Discord?
Brandon Sanderson
It is possible.
