What is a GotMism?

Simply, a term used by fans for the little things that differ between GotM and the rest of the series.

GotM was written in the early 1990's, many years before it was published and the other works were written. There are several inconsistencies between this first book and the others.

The following discussion involves very minor spoilers for MoI.

Notable GotMisms include:

- Orfantal is female in GotM, male in MoI (corrected in later editions).

- Tool's mysterious ability to deaden magic in a hundred-mile radius about his person using Tellann, a power never seen or mentioned again by any character. This could be explained away as some kind of special attribute of the First Sword, but even so Tool never uses it again.

- The disconnect between Tattersail's account of the Enfilade at Pale, and Tayschrenn's interpretation given in MoI. The two versions totally disagree, but for storyline reasons the later revisionist version has to be adopted by the reader. This means Tattersail's account has to be considered plain wrong in some respects - most significantly, Tattersail describes Nightchill dying before A'Karonys. Tayschrenn claims that Nightchill killed A'Karonys. So, we must consider Tattersail's account a GotMism. For further discussion of this controversial point, see here.

This is not an exhaustive list, and there are many conflicting pieces of information in the series that could either be GotMisms, ambiguity on the author's part, or due to the confused reader (and there is a lot to get confused about).

For more errors throughout the series, see Series Inconsistancies.

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