The Liar of Partinel

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This page or section contains details from the unpublished work The Liar of Partinel!

This information has the potential to ruin plot elements of both published works and upcoming book releases for the reader. It should also be considered uncanonical and could completely change in the future.

The Liar of Partinel is an unpublished cosmere work that Brandon Sanderson wrote in 2007.

The story takes place on the world of Yolen and features a character called Midius, a Lightweaver who adopts the name of his master, Hoid. When it was written, this book was intended to serve as a prequel to the story arc of a rewritten Dragonsteel Prime, but would have been published as a standalone book to avoid confusion with the main Dragonsteel sequence.

It was Sanderson's first attempt at writing Hoid's origin story, which he wanted to be "epic and awesome," but it just wasn't working and "every chapter was a chore to write." He does not distribute this book because the personality of one character "never clicked," and he does not want it to color fans' predispositions towards that character. He still intends to write this story some day, probably after the Stormlight Archive is finished, though he will rewrite it from scratch. The Ars Arcanum of Words of Radiance claims that Roshar's Lightweaving is the most similar to the "original Yolish variant," suggesting that this portion of the magic will stay canon.

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