Point number three was that, as I am now working on The Wheel of Time, having a character whose name sounded a lot like Perrin started to be problem to me. So, point number two was that I started to feel he's changed so much as a person I can no longer think of him as the same character. It's like an alternate world version of the book you're reading. And so it's going to be a very interesting process when I eventually let people read Way of Kings Prime, which I won't right now because it has spoilers for the rest of the series, but you can see how all the characters go in different directions from that moment and they also change slightly. There's a big decision that comes to him and it's almost like these two books are branching paths from that moment in a lot of ways. In Way of Kings Prime he makes a decision very early in the book, and in The Way of Kings I wanted to have him make the opposite decision. One of the concepts for the new Way of Kings is Kaladin's arc as a character. Tolkien in one of his appendices said, "I english-ized them to make them sound more more masculine for the 'translation' of the Lord of the Rings books, but they would actually call themselves Bilba and Froda." So, anyway, Merin sounded a little bit feminine, but still I dug in my heels. Those are their actual names that's what they say in-world and in the appendices. I've recently discovered that Bilbo and Frodo's actual names are "Bilba" and "Froda". I had been doggedly attached to it, despite the fact that all of my alpha readers on the original Way of Kings, Way of Kings Prime we'll call it now, said, "This sounds like a girl's name." I'm like, "Well…you know, sometimes in different cultures names sound like girls' names. Number one, I'd never really been pleased with the name. You know, I started writing about and working on Merin as a character in the year 2000, so he'd been around for almost a decade in my head as who he was.Ī couple of things sparked the change. The change was a very hard decision because the history of Way of Kings goes back so far. For those of you who don't know, the character's original name was Merin. I see you're stealing all of my annotation questions that I would ask myself. Why did you change the main character's name to "Kaladin" in the final draft?Įxcellent question.
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