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Brent Weeks

Fantasy author, Night Angel and Lightbringer

How we know it's theirs

Their 2016 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 16 posts and 935 comments from u/BrentWeeks, dated 2012 to 2026, most often in r/Fantasy, r/books and r/Fantasy_Bookclub.

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A redditor wrote in r/Fantasy

On “I have finally finished my five-volume epic fantasy trilogy, The Lightbringer Series. I'm Brent Weeks. Ask Me Anything!”

Why do you think Joe Abercrombie's books are so much better than yours, Brent? Is it the British sense of humour or just far superior intellect on his part?

u/BrentWeeks replied

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I hate to admit it, but I think it's the grasp of regional dialect that sets you apart. I mean, I'm a Montana native, and when I read Red Country, I just had to set it down, flabbergasted. This man, I thought, writes a fantasy Western like a man with deep, deep roots. In the South. Of England.

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A redditor wrote in r/Fantasy

On “I am Brent Weeks, writer of BFF (Big Fat Fantasy novels) including the Night Angel trilogy and The Lightbringer Series, now returning after 14 years to my first love with NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS. AMA!”

So many questions, but it is an AMA, so let's go with this one. The Black kakari can speak, Ezra "uses" it as a template for 6 more lesser kakari. Ezra calls himself the good guy, Durzo is trying to foul Ezra's plans. Durzo refused his part, and actively hinders bringing Jorsin…

u/BrentWeeks replied

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Before I wrote the Night Angel trilogy, I wrote another book set in Midcyru, 20 years later. The book was ... a good first effort. I liked the worldbuilding and some of the characters who showed up. I decided to trunk it, though. But I decided to save my effort by having what I'd written be the actual future of the world. I knew where things were headed twenty years after the NAT, so I could foreshadow it.

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A redditor wrote in r/Fantasy

Hi Brent! I'm a huge fan of (amongst other things) the wordplay in your books. Just now for instance I realized I had never even wondered before at the possibility of an intentional connection in Lightbringer between "The White" in relation to balancing the power usage of the…

u/BrentWeeks replied

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Oh man, the White and wights are probably the worst thing I ever did to my audiobook listeners. I was thinking of the medieval "wight" which just means a person, a guy, but obviously has archaic-feeling connotations to us, and even, through Tolkien's barrow-wights, a feeling of bad guys. Originally, like the word "knight", you would have pronounced every letter. But I have it just rhyme with white. Knowing how much it messed up audiobook listeners, if I could do it today, I would change it. (But... audiobooks exploded only AFTER I was a couple years into Lightbringer, so it wasn't something I thought about.) As for deep connections.... um, YEAH! TOTALLY!

No. I'm lying there. I think it might have occurred to me at some point, but I never really made anything of it. Darn. ;)

A redditor wrote in r/books

On “I am Brent Weeks. Best-selling epic fantasy author of Night Angel & Lightbringer. I don't have a movie deal. AMA!”

What is the biggest moment of inspiration you recall while writing? That moment when an idea comes through so strong you know it's killer and has to be built upon?

u/BrentWeeks replied

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Two, when I finished The Way of Shadows, re-read it for surely the 40th time, and thought, "Why do Durzo and Momma K hang out? Why do they not just kill each other? This MAKES NO GODDAM SENSE!" And then I realized they'd been in love with each other for years. I thought I'd have to go back and change so, so much. I changed two lines, and it fell into place.

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