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And with the Lord Ruler—Sanderson’s Sauron—dead, his once cohesive empire has splintered into factions warring to carve out new kingdoms.  \nDid the Lord Ruler actually try to make the world a better place, messed up and caused ash to fall instead, and he is trying to protect the world from an even worse fate? And finally, the whole\"Lord Ruler saved the world from a great evil\" propaganda may, it turns out, have been right. And with the Lord Ruler gone, that evil may be back.  \n“One of the pleasures of Ascension is that it picks up where most fantasy novels end. Ding dong, the Dark Lord is Dead. What's left to tell? Turns out plenty. First of all, the rebels start to learn that it's easy to carp from the sidelines but when it's your turn to actually rule, things aren't so simple. They also face the rule of \"unintended consequences\". Sure, the tyrannical Dark Lord is dead. But all that tyranny had a plus side--people were too scared to fight among themselves. Now civil war has broken out and young, bookish Elend Venture, the new king of Luthadel, faces three besieging armies, all trying to take his city and the rumored stockpile of treasure amassed by the Lord Ruler.”  \nIf you've read the first one in this series, you'll know ... that there's just too many elements in these books to properly review and give thought to each of them. Honestly, there are just so many ideas, themes, concepts, and goldmines presented to be able to remember them all or comment on them all. All you can do is read and have your mind blown by it all, and then reread to experience it all over again. Bravo, Brandon Sanderson. You are a literary God!  \nMore interesting was what The Well of Ascension does with one of the tiredest tropes in fantasy: prophecy. Mistborn hinted at how the foretellings ofold had been betrayed two thousand years earlier by the Lord Ruler, when he killed the Hero of Ages and usurped the legendary figure’s  \nrightful power. In the second book, Sazed, one of Vin’s companions, investigates the prophecies and discovers how they’ve been altered to suit various purposes. It’s a nice repackaging of the“Chosen One” motif: we’re not sure what’s already been fulfilled, what’s still to come, and  \nwhat’s even real.","cbCair9rcoLJflpb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair9rcoLJflpb","pdf",118747,"English","# Story setup and aftermath\n## Death of the Lord Ruler and fractured empire\n## Threats: ash, mists, and killing\n# Political conflict and Elend Venture\n## Civil war and besieging armies\n## Treasure rumors and shifting power\n# Themes and narrative approach\n## Unintended consequences\n## Prophecy and the altered Chosen One motif","[{\"question\":\"What changes occur after the Lord Ruler dies in The Well of Ascension?\",\"answer\":\"His once cohesive empire splinters into factions and civil war breaks out. 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