Moderator
So the question I asked, at the beginning of this session, is: You used the definite article…
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Moderator
Who’s the Rithmatist?
Brandon Sanderson
Who’s the Rithmatist? So I imagined the Rithmatist more being a, um, a book like, let’s see if I can find an example of it. It’s not defining a person, um, it is, uh…
Moderator
The role of the Rithmatist.
Brandon Sanderson
...trying to. Yeah, yeah. Like I’m trying to find… There’s books that are like this, where it’s just like, uh, it’s almost like you could call a series The Rithmatist, The Archive, the this, that sort of idea where the title is… Look, it was originally called Scribbler, um, and Tor suggested changing the title to something that highlighted the magic a little bit more and was a better fit, and I liked The Rithmatist as that, but it’s particularly because the future books could be The Aztlanian and The Nebraskan.
Moderator
And they’ll fit, they’ll be right next to one another--no they won’t. Cause the doesn’t get catalogued.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, exactly, but it felt like it was going to, uh, it just worked. But The Rithmatist more is like, you know, it’s not specifically any individual. I know there are other books that have this feel. But yeah, all right. What do you guys want to know from me? Go ahead.