With it mainly being a standalone novel, it is a great jumping-off point for those looking to explore his body of work, especially with his longer series like Mistborn. Truly, Elantris is just a taste of what Sanderson has done for the fantasy genre as a whole.
Hrathen and Gaston represent the status quo and the seething anger and malice it takes to keep such a tight knit community from being unravelled. But both Hrathen and Ganon do a good job at being conniving zealots, though.Īs for the parallels with 1991’s Beauty and the Beast theatrical film, both Raoden and Sarene represent the outsiders, both looking to just exist and be accepted by the world, just like Belle and Prince Adam. What flips the script is how Raoden is the meek magic user while Sarene is more of the sword-wielding hero. When it comes to The Legend of Zelda comparison, it’s clear to see that Link and Raoden, Zelda and Sarene, and Ganon and Hrathen, share more than a few similarities. Like Noctis and Lunafreya, this is a cursed engagement from the start, and the arrival of a third, overzealous party like Ardyn in Final Fantasy XV and Hrathen in Elantris, only keeps the couple apart for most of the story. Just like Final Fantasy XV, Elantris begins with the promise of an engagement, a political but amiable marriage between Prince Raoden and Princess Sarene. The three that come to mind are Final Fantasy XV, The Legend of Zelda games, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. With the story centering around three points of view, one can also see many similarities of Elantris’s character dynamics to other well-known stories. What it does better than Dragon Age 2, however, is the high stakes affecting the city and the threat of destruction from every corner. In many ways, Elantris’s story is a lot like Dragon Age 2, where we see a singular city evolve and change over the course of the story, all affected by the actions of our protagonists. The story primarily takes place in Elantris and various locales in the country of Arelon, where merchants from all over the world come to trade, nobles gather for politically-charged parties, and the cursed city of Elantris is a reminder of the country’s past glories. With each chapter bouncing off these three characters’ points of views, readers will get to experience the trials and tribulations of different walks of life. The story has three protagonists: the cursed Prince Raoden, the widowed Princess Sarene, and the evangelical Gyorn Hrathen. Those affected by the Shaod are thrown within the walls of Elantris, cut off from the outside world. Elantris tells the story of the titular city, a once a bustling home of godlike magic users that has fallen into disarray as a ravaging plague turns the city upside down.
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