Point of View Shifts and Pacing in Sanderson's Elantris

Elantris, the first novel of Brandon Sanderson, is an epic fantasy that employs multiple points of view in telling the story. The novel opens from the perspective of Prince Raoden who has just been transformed by the Shaod and is promptly thrown into the fallen city of Elantris. The second point of view follows Sarene, Raoden’s unsuspecting fiancée as s…