Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns, and one day someone from that society saw a brown eyed person and had no idea whether to categorise them as blee/bler or glee/gler
That sounds a bit like Aryan fantasy but I’m not jumping to conclusions.
Really I’m not. Interesting concept but the pigmentation of the iris is like skin colour. It ultimately reveals a blue iris if removed.
If it were a glorification of that concept, then sure, but it’s not. Most of the time spent on that particular bit of world building it to point out what a stupid system it is.
Interesting, the series sounds like it’s really worth checking out.
It’s very good if you’re into high fantasy. It’s a time investment, though. 6500 pages and counting.
It’s worth the investment, though. So are his other series.
It’s funny. My introduction to his work was the ending to Wheel Of Time, which I found pretty disappointing. So I avoided his books for a long time. I finally broke down and read Mistborn, and now I’ve been reading Sanderson stuff almost exclusively for a couple years.
I’ve read the series, and it’s not. The characters struggle with the (often nonsensical) established caste system and their role in it, and it’s intended as a mirror to real world caste systems and racial divisions rather than as a celebration of them.
Edit: from what I remember. It’s been a year or two since I read the Stormlight archives.