Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Is there any chance we're ever going to get a conversation between Wayne and Lopen?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Maybe in a non-canon entry.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
What's your favorite Lopen moment?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Probably where he is on the ground talking to the sky. Probably that one.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Can Lopen's children inherit Alethkar, because he was king for just a brief minute?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
They'd have a claim. I don't think the Alethi would pay attention to it... But he was legitimately king for a brief moment.
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Questioner
I do have to know, how many cousins [does Lopen have]?
Brandon Sanderson
It depends on what your definition of cousin is. By Lopen's definition, there are a lot of cousins. He's counting like fifth cousins.
Questioner
Third cousin twice-removed?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, that's his cousin. Like [someone] dating his sister, or his mom's sister - that's a cousin.
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Questioner
Is Lopen, is he going to be one of the secondary [main characters for the back half of the Stormlight Archive]?
Brandon Sanderson
He is not. Good question.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
So now that Lopen has his arm, are there any good two-armed Herdazian jokes?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
He's working on them. In a scene, you will see him working on two-armed Herdazian jokes.
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Questioner
Lopen. Is he a squire, or does he actually have a spren?
Brandon Sanderson
He’s a squire. You’ll find out a lot more about what the squires are in the upcoming book. For most orders, squire were knights radiant potentially in training, so you can see what happens in the next book.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
The Lopen's cousins? Is there any significance to them, or are they just--
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
No, they're just, like, his cousins and his distant cousins. He just is somebody who knows everyone and is related to half the Herdazians around. There's no secret, they just really are.
Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
When they show up, ever time, I'm like, there's gotta be something with these guys.
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
They're a tight-knit group, those Herdazians.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
What did Lopen do to get on a bridge crew?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Lopen? Someone just thought he was annoying. Lopen, he's like the only person in Bridge Four who's, like, not a criminal. It's just like, "Oh, that stupid Herdazian, send him to a bridge crew, get him away." He's legitimately, like-- all of them have deep, dark, tragic pasts, but not The Lopen.
Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Is he one of your friends?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
No...
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
So is Lopen able to regrow his arm because he didn't identify as being a one-armed Herdazian, even though he made all those jokes?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Yeah.
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Questioner
How old is Lopen.
Brandon Sanderson
Lopen is early twenties.
#12
Questioner
Is Lopen still going to have one-armed jokes?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, he will always have one-armed jokes! He's probably going to have to come up with some two-armed jokes.
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Questioner
I asked about The Lopen, and it was a public Q&A, so I was trying not to be spoilery. But some of the things he said at the end of Words of Radiance, where he knew a lot about background processes. I asked if I should be suspicious of it, and you said, "Yes." Was that in reference to him becoming the king, that you revealed? Or is it because of something else that he knows about?
Brandon Sanderson
Background processes of...?
Questioner
It seemed he knew more about the squires, the process of being squires
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, Lopen. Lopen knowing more. No, that's not about being the king. You are supposed to be suspicious of it because Lopen has been paying a lot of attention. He didn't have foreknowledge. It was completely accidental he ended up in Bridge Four. But once he did, he decided, "I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna learn about it." And he has been the one actively pursuing becoming a full Knight Radiant. He's the only one of the team who's actively been doing that. That's why you are supposed to be suspicious. There's not an ulterior motive. He is proactive.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
In The Way of Kings, how did Lopen get in and out of the chasms with only one arm?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
So, he had a little help. And he can do it. Getting down and up-- I've actually seen people, looking online. You can climb a ladder. It's not easy. It's better if you have some help. But you can get up and down.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Does Lopen have a good story later? Because he's my favorite.
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Yes, he does. Lopen has lots of good stories coming up.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Is it a coincidence that, when Michael Kramer was reading... Stormlight Archive and Wax&Wayne, Wayne sounds curiously like Lopen.
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
It's a cute coincidence. Lopen would have a very different accent from Wayne.
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Questioner
In regards to the one-armed Lopen - which arm is missing?
Brandon Sanderson
*photo pause* I have always imagined it as his left, but I don't know if I ever said or canonized it.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
In Herdazian, is there no personal pronoun, and that's why Lopen always refers to himself as "The Lopen"?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
No, that is his personal thing. In Rock's language, most nouns are gendered, masculine, which is why you always see him flipping-- screwing that up. But Lopen, just his thing. Just his thing.
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KChan
Is Lopen a squire?
Brandon Sanderson
Lopen is a squire. Good question! That'll probably settle some debating on the website.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Lopen, from the end of The Wheel of Time; and Lopen, from Stormlight Archive. Do they have anything in common?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Lopen, is there a character in Wheel of Time called Lopen? ...Must just be a coincidence, then. *laughter* I didn't write any intentional Wheel of Time references to my books, or anything like that. The only cameo sort of thing there is in there for me is, the sword that Robert Jordan's cousin gave to me out of Robert Jordan's collection, I wrote into the book. Kind of in the same way Robert Jordan wrote himself into the books as a ter'angreal that had lots of stories in it, that they discovered was his cameo for himself. I wrote in my sword. So my sword, that they gave me, which has painted dragons on the scabbard that look a lot (in my mind) like the ones on Rand's arms. And I don't know if he got that from that katana that he was given, but it was the one they gave my out of the collection, so I wrote it in. But any other connections you think you run into are going to be just coincidences. I do have a fondness for certain types of names.
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Questioner
Did Lopen bond a spren or is he a squire?
Brandon Sanderson
As of right now, Lopen is a squire.
Questioner
Okay, as of right now. So it's a potential RAFO.
Brandon Sanderson
Uh, I answered your question exactly. *questioner laughs* That's not a RAFO, that's an exact answer to the question you asked.
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nike_dunks
Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized Lopens or 1 Lopen-sized duck?
Brandon Sanderson
One Lopen sized duck, assuming it's not a Surgebinder.
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Questioner
I was wondering if you have off the top of your head any one-armed Herdazian jokes to offer?
Brandon Sanderson
Only the obvious one.
Questioner
That being?
Brandon Sanderson
How do you get the one-armed Herdazian out of a tree?
Questioner
How's that?
Brandon Sanderson
You wave!
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WEEEEGEEW
What is in the future for the one armed Herdazian?
Brandon Sanderson
Greatness.
I mean, heck, he's already been King of Alethkar.
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