Sorry I should have said Fanboy or something maybe? The people I know who are obsessed with his shit are the same people who are like dude you gotta listen to this band, they're called tool. And I'm like yeah they're cool. Only to find out I apparently just didn't get it.

(Don't get me wrong, tool is great. But they didn't invent math rock or anything. That's just an example.)

Bruh they've been connected since the beginning. He wrote like 15 books before one actually got published. One of his unpublished books (which is available for free on his site) has the beginning of it.

Are you sure it's just it wasn't as edge-lord dark after Mistborn?

I think I read the first half of the mistborn series and just gave up.

Oh that sounds like a nightmare to make it work and not limit the creation of most new works. This is the first time I've heard about that.

Shit people like Patrick Rothfuss wrote himself into a corner in only a couple books, attaching series is asking for stumps. Just let works be free and seperate