# Brent Weeks on Reddit (u/BrentWeeks)

Part of Creators on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/creators-on-reddit/brent-weeks

Brent Weeks: Fantasy author, Night Angel and Lightbringer.

- Reddit account: [u/BrentWeeks](https://www.reddit.com/user/BrentWeeks/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [Their 2016 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/595vzx/i_am_epic_fantasy_author_brent_weeks_i_talk_to/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/Fantasy (768), r/books (117), r/Fantasy_Bookclub (50), r/fountainpens (7), r/scrivener (3), r/redrising (1)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2012 to 2026
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Weeks

## Moments

### u/BrentWeeks in r/Fantasy, Oct 15, 2019 · Funny

Replying to a redditor:

> 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?

> 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.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/di8ox8/comment/f3vqbx4/ · 373 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/BrentWeeks in r/Fantasy, Apr 20, 2023 · Cut idea

Replying to a redditor:

> 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…

> 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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Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/12t6dar/comment/jh1lvo3/ · 134 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/BrentWeeks in r/Fantasy, Apr 21, 2023 · Own mistake

Replying to a redditor:

> 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…

> 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. ;)

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/12t6dar/comment/jh300c0/ · 11 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/BrentWeeks in r/books, Oct 21, 2015 · Behind the scenes

Replying to a redditor:

> 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?

> 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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Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/3pjao2/comment/cw74nwr/ · 7 points as of Nov 7, 2026