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==Appearance & Personality==
  
==Appearance & Personality==
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As a Returned, Susebron looks much younger than he really is, which is around 50 years at the time of the events recorded in [[Warbreaker]].{{book ref|wb|36}} He is described as having dark hair, black eyes, and pale skin, though it is revealed later that he can learn to change his appearance at will.
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As a Returned, Susebron looks much younger than he really is, which is around 50 years at the time of the events recorded in [[Warbreaker]].{{book ref|wb|36}} He is described as having dark hair, black eyes, and pale skin, though it is revealed later that he can learn to change his appearance at will.{{book ref|wb|58}}
   
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He is naive, having grown up in a virtual prison imposed upon him by his priests. Still, he follows the morals in the stories of a book belonging to his [[Susebron's mother|mother]] and lives by them.{{book ref|wb|20}} Later, he begins to figure some things out for himself.
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He is naive, having grown up in a virtual prison imposed upon him by his priests. He is highly trustworthy of them, and refuses to believe that they may wish him harm.{{book ref|wb|29}} His main source of knowledge about morality is a book of stories that once belonged to his [[Susebron's mother|mother]], the morals of which he follows from memory.{{book ref|wb|24}} Later, he begins to figure some things out for himself, though he continues to hold to the book's rules, making him honest to a fault.{{book ref|wb|29}} He's highly devoted to the people he trusts, including [[Siri]] and the priests, and refuses to abandon either of them. Nonetheless, he can be realistic in his asessment of others.{{book ref|wb|36}}
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He's very fond of sweets, and justifies eating a lot of them by saying that as a Returned, he can't gain any weight.{{book ref|wb|44}}
   
 
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== History ==
  
== History ==
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He was an infant [[returned]] fifty years before the event of [[Warbreaker]]. When he returned, the last [[God King]] was unable to produce a child, so the infant Susebron was given [[Peacegiver's Treasure]] and become God King.{{annotation ref|wb|chapter=44}}
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Susebron was an infant [[Returned]] fifty years before the [[Pahn Kahl rebellion]]. At the time of his Return, the [[God King]] was unable to produce a child, and so the infant Susebron was given [[Peacegiver's Treasure]] and made the new God King after his predecessor's retirement.{{annotation ref|wb|chapter=44}} At some point either before or after his crowning, his tongue was removed so that he would be unable to use the wealth of Breaths that had been bestowed on him.{{book ref|wb|40}} He was separated from his mother, though he managed to retain a storybook she used to read him. He had heard the stories so many times and looked at it over the years that he had memorized each symbol, and the morals of the stories in the book were in part the code by which he lived.{{annotation ref|Warbreaker|chapter=24}}
   
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He resided, mostly alone, in the black palace that was given to the God Kings. Despite being the official ruler of Hallandren, he was kept away from its people and other Returned, only coming out briefly on special occasions. This was to hide that his tongue had been cut out by his priests when he first Returned, so he could not use his [[Peacegiver's Treasure|great wealth]] of Breaths with [[Command]]s{{book ref|wb|40}} (as he had not been taught to [[Awakening|Awaken]] with a thought). He has over fifty thousand Breaths; his inheritance from the first God King and those who followed.
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Throughout most of his life, Susebron resided mostly alone in the black palace of the God Kings in [[T'Telir]]. Despite being the official ruler of Hallandren, he was kept away from its people and other Returned, only coming out briefly on special occasions, to hide the fact that he was mute.{{book ref|wb|40}} At the time, he had not been taught to [[Awakening|Awaken]] with a thought.
   
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To forestall a war between [[Idris]] and Hallandren, Susebron was promised the hand of king [[Dedelin]]'s daughter, [[Vivenna]]. At the last moment, however, she was swapped for her sister, [[Sisirinah]], and Susebron ended up marrying Siri.{{book ref|wb|4}} For a long time, Susebron and Siri met only at night, as the priests wanted them to make a child, but neither acted, as Siri was awaiting Susebron's first move, while Susebron had no idea what was expected of him.{{book ref|wb|24}} Initially, he feared Siri, uncertain as to why she spent her nights waiting, naked, on his floor. After she began to perform her moaning and screaming routine for the priests, he approached her with a book, hoping to start some communication.{{book ref|wb|20}}
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During the events of Warbreaker, Susebron marries [[Siri]] in order to preserve the peace between Hallandren and [[Idris]]. At first he fears Siri, uncertain why she spends her nights waiting, naked, on his floor. When the two finally begin communicating (him writing on a board, her speaking), his innocence is revealed. Siri teaches Susebron to read using the story book of his mother{{book ref|wb|20}} that he had 'hidden' from his priests.{{annotation ref|Warbreaker|chapter=24}} He had heard the stories so many times and looked at it over the years that he had memorized each symbol, and the morals of the stories in the book were in part the code by which he lived. This meant he was honest and did not eat too many sweets. He and Siri eventually fall in love and she begins to plan how to reveal to the other gods that he has no tongue. She also teaches him other things, ideas such as sarcasm and mockery, and about other places such as Idris, and her own life. Susebron expresses an interest in meeting [[Austre]].{{book ref|wb|29}}
  
   
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Siri taught Susebron to read and write using his mother's storybook and they started to converse, him writing on a board, and her speaking. Siri taught Susebron to read using the story book of his mother.{{book ref|wb|20}} As he and Siri planned how to reveal to the other gods that had no tongue, the two began to fall in love. He would spend long hours with her, learning about things like sarcasm and mockery, and about places such as Idris, and Siri's life growing.{{book ref|wb|24}} During one of those conversations, Susebron expressed an interest in meeting [[Austre]].{{book ref|wb|29}} Eventually, he and Siri consummated their marriage.{{book ref|wb|44}}
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The [[Pahn Kahl]] [[Pahn Kahl rebellion|attack]] of the [[Court of the Gods]] sees him imprisoned in his own palace. His tongue was restored when [[Lightsong]] gives up his divine [[BioChromatic Breath|Breath]] to heal him.{{book ref|wb|57}} As Susebron has so many Breaths, he was able to Awaken instinctively now that he could speak. He frees his palace from the Pahn Kahl invaders and saves Siri.{{book ref|wb|58}}
  
   
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Shortly thereafter, Susebron decided to finally reveal his true function in the court to the other gods, with the plan for failure being to flee with Siri.{{book ref|wb|48}} However, before either could happen, Siri was taken away by the priests, under the guise of her pregnancy forcing her to stay in seclusion.{{book ref|wb|50}} Almost immediately afterwards, the [[Pahn Kahl]] attacked the [[Court of the Gods]], and imprisoned both Siri and Susebron.{{book ref|wb|55}}
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Susebron continues to reside in his palace with Siri after saving her homeland, Idris, from the [[Lifeless]] army using [[Kalad's Phantoms]].
  
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The latter found himself in a cell next to [[Lightsong]], who sacrificed his own divine [[BioChromatic Breath|Beath]] to heal him, restoring his tongue.{{book ref|wb|57}} Now able to speak, and armed with enough Breaths to let him instinctively Awaken, Susebron freed his palace from the Pahn Kahl invaders and saved Siri.{{book ref|wb|58}}
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Shortly after the rebellion is quenched, Susebron was approached by [[Vasher]], who gave him the command to the [[Kalad's Phantoms]] strewn about the city.{{book ref|wb|58}} He uses it to send them after the [[Lifeless]] bearing down on Idris. He himself remains in T'Telir along with Siri, now with far more influence on Hallandren politics.{{book ref|wb|epilogue}}
   
 
== Attributes and Abilities ==
  
== Attributes and Abilities ==
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Throughout most of his life, Susebron was mute and illiterate.{{book ref|wb|20}} He eventually manages to learn how to read and write from [[Siri]], and has his tongue restored by [[Lightsong]], immediately gaining the ability to speak.{{book ref|wb|29}}{{book ref|wb|57}}
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He has been gifted with [[Peacegiver's Treasure]], a sum of approximately fifty thousand Breaths, granting him the Tenth [[Heightening]] and all the abilities of the Heightenings beneath it, including:{{book ref|wb|part=ars}}
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* Aura and Breath recognition - allows him to assess the number of Breaths a person possesses, as well as recognize Invested objects
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* Lifesense - allows him to sense people around him
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* Perfect Pitch and Perfect Color Recognition - lets him recognize individual tones and hues, and harmonizations thereof
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* Instinctive Awakening - allows him to know commands necessary for what he desires to do without learning them beforehand
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* Command Breaking - allows him to override commands of others
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* Agelesness - makes him effectively unaging
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* Greater Awakening - allows him to Awaken stone and steel objects
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Little is known about those who have achieved Tenth [[Heightening]], but it is known that those who possess this level of Breaths have Perfect Invocation, allowing the Awakener to draw more color from objects used, draining them to completely white, rather than merely grey. In addition, Susebron is theoretically capable of Awakening without speaking - the ability of Mental Command - although he has not been taught how to do so.{{book ref|wb|58}}
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A third effect of the 10th Heightening is Color Distortion. Wherever Susebron goes, white objects in his their vicinity break up their colors like a prism, creating further colors. To show this off, he's usually dressed in white for public functions, although he wears black in private, as it is a more powerful color from Awakening standpoint.{{annotation ref|Warbreaker|chapter=20}}
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The Peacegiver's Treasure makes Susebron effectively immortal, and even if he were to suddenly be cut off from his weekly supply, he could still live for over nine hundred years feeding off it.{{book ref|wb|48}} This amount of Breath might also make him immune to emotional allomancy.{{wob ref|11830}}
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Though little has been shown of Susebron's Awakening abilities, he is naturally extremely powerful by the virtue of the sheer number of Breaths he possesses. Shortly after regaining his tongue, he's capable of controlling hundreds of individual Awakened objects simultaneously.{{book ref|wb|58}}
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Though he is a king, it's uncertain how much in the way of political skill he has, as until very recently, he's been little more than a figurehead of the priesthood.{{book ref|wb|20}}
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== Development ==
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[[Siri]], [[Vivenna]] and Susebron were developed together. Originally, they were all characters from ''[[Mythwalker]]'', Brandon's ninth, unpublished novel.{{wob ref|7819}} Susebron was unnamed in Mythwalker, going only by the name of the Emperor, but was likewise going to marry Vivenna (Vvenna in ''Mythwalker'') before marrying Siri instead.{{bws ref|https://brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-prime-mythwalker-chapter-thirteen/|Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Thirteen|date=2011-08-15}}
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The Emperor in Mythwalker retains the same divine status Susebron has, but the details are slightly different: he's significantly younger, has been crowned at the age of ten rather than shortly after his birth, and wears black rather than white in court.{{bws ref|https://brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-prime-mythwalker-chapter-fourteen/|Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Fourteen|date=2011-08-15}} He's also not a [[Returned]], as [[Awakening]] did not yet exist in its current form.
   
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Though the Emperor is present for Siri's marriage to him (in contrast to Susebron), his early meetings with her go much the same as they do in ''[[Warbreaker]]''.{{bws ref| https://brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-prime-mythwalker-chapter-sixteen/|Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Sixteen|date=2011-08-15}} However, as the Siri in Mythwalker possesses powers that would allow her to regrow his tongue, the plot requires the two to remain in that initial state of non-communication for far longer than they do now.{{bws ref| https://brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-prime-mythwalker-chapter-eighteen/|Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Eighteen|date=2011-08-15}}
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Susebron has been gifted with [[Peacegiver's Treasure]]. It is a sum of approximately 50,000 Breaths, meaning he has achieved the 10th Heightening and granted a myriad of different abilities gained from the different [[Heightening]]s.
 
   
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Though Brandon never finished ''Mythwalker'', the buddying relationship between Siri and the Emperor was one of his favourite parts of the story, which is why he revisited it in ''Warbreaker''.{{wob ref|7360}} Though their plot was re-written significantly to improve the pacing, the Emperor's personality did not change when he became Susebron.{{wob ref|7819}}
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Little is known about those who have achieved this level of [[Heightening]], but it is known that those who possess this level of Breaths have Perfect Invocation, allowing the Awakener to draw more color from objects used, draining them to completely white, rather than merely grey, as well as Mental Command, allowing them to Awaken without voicing them. A third effect of the 10th Heightening is Color Distortion, which causes white objects in their vicinity to break up their colors like a prism, creating further color.
  
   
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== Trivia ==
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Susebron most noticeably displayed these skills during the [[Pahn Kahl rebellion]], using them to free Siri from those who wished to harm her.{{cite}}
  
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* Several people emailed Brandon saying that lacking a tongue, Susebron shouldn't have the sense of taste. However, this is a misconception born out of a common urban legend that the taste buds are segregated by taste on a person's tongue, while in reality, a the roof of the mouth also has them.{{wob ref|7290}}
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* Though Susebron believes that he has hidden his book of stories from the priests, they are aware of it, though they decided to let him keep it as a memento.{{wob ref|6947}}
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* According to Brandon, Susebron might not make a good God-King, but he will certainly make an earnest one. It's possible that [[Llarimar]] will become his high priest.{{wob ref|3022}}
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* Though Susebron might appear in ''[[Nightblood (book)|Nightblood]]'', he will not be the focus of the story.{{wob ref|8535}}
   
 
== Notes ==
  
== Notes ==

Revision as of 18:40, 28 July 2019

Susebron
God King.jpg
by Shuravf
Family
Spouse Sisirinah
Parents Mother
Abilities Returned, Awakener, Cognitive Shadow
Titles God King of Hallandren, Susebron the Grand, Immortal Majesty[1], His Excellent Grace
Nationality Hallandren
Homeworld Nalthis
Universe Cosmere

Susebron is the God King of Hallandren on Nalthis[2] around 300 years after the Manywar. He is a Returned and is given two or more Breaths every week by his subjects in order to keep him alive.[3] He is the fifth God King in the three hundred years since the Manywar.[4]

Appearance & Personality

As a Returned, Susebron looks much younger than he really is, which is around 50 years at the time of the events recorded in Warbreaker.[5] He is described as having dark hair, black eyes, and pale skin, though it is revealed later that he can learn to change his appearance at will.[6]

He is naive, having grown up in a virtual prison imposed upon him by his priests. He is highly trustworthy of them, and refuses to believe that they may wish him harm.[3] His main source of knowledge about morality is a book of stories that once belonged to his mother, the morals of which he follows from memory.[7] Later, he begins to figure some things out for himself, though he continues to hold to the book's rules, making him honest to a fault.[3] He's highly devoted to the people he trusts, including Siri and the priests, and refuses to abandon either of them. Nonetheless, he can be realistic in his asessment of others.[5]

He's very fond of sweets, and justifies eating a lot of them by saying that as a Returned, he can't gain any weight.[8]

History

Susebron was an infant Returned fifty years before the Pahn Kahl rebellion. At the time of his Return, the God King was unable to produce a child, and so the infant Susebron was given Peacegiver's Treasure and made the new God King after his predecessor's retirement.Template:Annotation ref At some point either before or after his crowning, his tongue was removed so that he would be unable to use the wealth of Breaths that had been bestowed on him.[9] He was separated from his mother, though he managed to retain a storybook she used to read him. He had heard the stories so many times and looked at it over the years that he had memorized each symbol, and the morals of the stories in the book were in part the code by which he lived.Template:Annotation ref

Throughout most of his life, Susebron resided mostly alone in the black palace of the God Kings in T'Telir. Despite being the official ruler of Hallandren, he was kept away from its people and other Returned, only coming out briefly on special occasions, to hide the fact that he was mute.[9] At the time, he had not been taught to Awaken with a thought.

To forestall a war between Idris and Hallandren, Susebron was promised the hand of king Dedelin's daughter, Vivenna. At the last moment, however, she was swapped for her sister, Sisirinah, and Susebron ended up marrying Siri.[1] For a long time, Susebron and Siri met only at night, as the priests wanted them to make a child, but neither acted, as Siri was awaiting Susebron's first move, while Susebron had no idea what was expected of him.[7] Initially, he feared Siri, uncertain as to why she spent her nights waiting, naked, on his floor. After she began to perform her moaning and screaming routine for the priests, he approached her with a book, hoping to start some communication.[10]

Siri taught Susebron to read and write using his mother's storybook and they started to converse, him writing on a board, and her speaking. Siri taught Susebron to read using the story book of his mother.[10] As he and Siri planned how to reveal to the other gods that had no tongue, the two began to fall in love. He would spend long hours with her, learning about things like sarcasm and mockery, and about places such as Idris, and Siri's life growing.[7] During one of those conversations, Susebron expressed an interest in meeting Austre.[3] Eventually, he and Siri consummated their marriage.[8]

Shortly thereafter, Susebron decided to finally reveal his true function in the court to the other gods, with the plan for failure being to flee with Siri.[11] However, before either could happen, Siri was taken away by the priests, under the guise of her pregnancy forcing her to stay in seclusion.[12] Almost immediately afterwards, the Pahn Kahl attacked the Court of the Gods, and imprisoned both Siri and Susebron.[13]

The latter found himself in a cell next to Lightsong, who sacrificed his own divine Beath to heal him, restoring his tongue.[14] Now able to speak, and armed with enough Breaths to let him instinctively Awaken, Susebron freed his palace from the Pahn Kahl invaders and saved Siri.[6]

Shortly after the rebellion is quenched, Susebron was approached by Vasher, who gave him the command to the Kalad's Phantoms strewn about the city.[6] He uses it to send them after the Lifeless bearing down on Idris. He himself remains in T'Telir along with Siri, now with far more influence on Hallandren politics.[15]

Attributes and Abilities

Throughout most of his life, Susebron was mute and illiterate.[10] He eventually manages to learn how to read and write from Siri, and has his tongue restored by Lightsong, immediately gaining the ability to speak.[3][14]

He has been gifted with Peacegiver's Treasure, a sum of approximately fifty thousand Breaths, granting him the Tenth Heightening and all the abilities of the Heightenings beneath it, including:[16]

  • Aura and Breath recognition - allows him to assess the number of Breaths a person possesses, as well as recognize Invested objects
  • Lifesense - allows him to sense people around him
  • Perfect Pitch and Perfect Color Recognition - lets him recognize individual tones and hues, and harmonizations thereof
  • Instinctive Awakening - allows him to know commands necessary for what he desires to do without learning them beforehand
  • Command Breaking - allows him to override commands of others
  • Agelesness - makes him effectively unaging
  • Greater Awakening - allows him to Awaken stone and steel objects

Little is known about those who have achieved Tenth Heightening, but it is known that those who possess this level of Breaths have Perfect Invocation, allowing the Awakener to draw more color from objects used, draining them to completely white, rather than merely grey. In addition, Susebron is theoretically capable of Awakening without speaking - the ability of Mental Command - although he has not been taught how to do so.[6]

A third effect of the 10th Heightening is Color Distortion. Wherever Susebron goes, white objects in his their vicinity break up their colors like a prism, creating further colors. To show this off, he's usually dressed in white for public functions, although he wears black in private, as it is a more powerful color from Awakening standpoint.Template:Annotation ref

The Peacegiver's Treasure makes Susebron effectively immortal, and even if he were to suddenly be cut off from his weekly supply, he could still live for over nine hundred years feeding off it.[11] This amount of Breath might also make him immune to emotional allomancy.[17]

Though little has been shown of Susebron's Awakening abilities, he is naturally extremely powerful by the virtue of the sheer number of Breaths he possesses. Shortly after regaining his tongue, he's capable of controlling hundreds of individual Awakened objects simultaneously.[6]

Though he is a king, it's uncertain how much in the way of political skill he has, as until very recently, he's been little more than a figurehead of the priesthood.[10]

Development

Siri, Vivenna and Susebron were developed together. Originally, they were all characters from Mythwalker, Brandon's ninth, unpublished novel.[18] Susebron was unnamed in Mythwalker, going only by the name of the Emperor, but was likewise going to marry Vivenna (Vvenna in Mythwalker) before marrying Siri instead.[19]

The Emperor in Mythwalker retains the same divine status Susebron has, but the details are slightly different: he's significantly younger, has been crowned at the age of ten rather than shortly after his birth, and wears black rather than white in court.[20] He's also not a Returned, as Awakening did not yet exist in its current form.

Though the Emperor is present for Siri's marriage to him (in contrast to Susebron), his early meetings with her go much the same as they do in Warbreaker.[21] However, as the Siri in Mythwalker possesses powers that would allow her to regrow his tongue, the plot requires the two to remain in that initial state of non-communication for far longer than they do now.[22]

Though Brandon never finished Mythwalker, the buddying relationship between Siri and the Emperor was one of his favourite parts of the story, which is why he revisited it in Warbreaker.[23] Though their plot was re-written significantly to improve the pacing, the Emperor's personality did not change when he became Susebron.[18]

Trivia

  • Several people emailed Brandon saying that lacking a tongue, Susebron shouldn't have the sense of taste. However, this is a misconception born out of a common urban legend that the taste buds are segregated by taste on a person's tongue, while in reality, a the roof of the mouth also has them.[24]
  • Though Susebron believes that he has hidden his book of stories from the priests, they are aware of it, though they decided to let him keep it as a memento.[25]
  • According to Brandon, Susebron might not make a good God-King, but he will certainly make an earnest one. It's possible that Llarimar will become his high priest.[26]
  • Though Susebron might appear in Nightblood, he will not be the focus of the story.[27]

Notes

  1. ↑ a b Warbreaker chapter 4#
  2. ↑ Warbreaker chapter 2#
  3. ↑ a b c d e Warbreaker chapter 29#
  4. ↑ Warbreaker chapter 32#
  5. ↑ a b Warbreaker chapter 36#
  6. ↑ a b c d e Warbreaker chapter 58#
  7. ↑ a b c Warbreaker chapter 24#
  8. ↑ a b Warbreaker chapter 44#
  9. ↑ a b Warbreaker chapter 40#
  10. ↑ a b c d Warbreaker chapter 20#
  11. ↑ a b Warbreaker chapter 48#
  12. ↑ Warbreaker chapter 50#
  13. ↑ Warbreaker chapter 55#
  14. ↑ a b Warbreaker chapter 57#
  15. ↑ Warbreaker epilogue#
  16. ↑ Warbreaker Ars Arcanum#
  17. ↑ Skyward release party
    — Arcanum - 2018-11-06#
  18. ↑ a b TWG Posts
    — Arcanum - 2006-06-21#
  19. ↑ Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Thirteen
    — Brandon's website - 2011-08-15#
  20. ↑ Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Fourteen
    — Brandon's website - 2011-08-15#
  21. ↑ Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Sixteen
    — Brandon's website - 2011-08-15#
  22. ↑ Warbreaker Prime: Mythwalker Chapter Eighteen
    — Brandon's website - 2011-08-15#
  23. ↑ Warbreaker Annotations
    — Arcanum - 2011-03-28#
  24. ↑ Warbreaker Annotations
    — Arcanum - 2011-01-03#
  25. ↑ Warbreaker Annotations
    — Arcanum - 2010-11-02#
  26. ↑ Steelheart Chicago signing
    — Arcanum - 2013-10-05#
  27. ↑ Oathbringer Portland signing
    — Arcanum - 2017-11-16#
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