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While not a [[worldhopper]], he is still highly knowledgeable about the cosmere.{{wob ref|3679}} He is associated with the [[Seventeenth Shard]],{{epigraph ref|sa1|26}} a group that shares his nonintervention policy.{{wob ref|1735}} He is able to keep track of current events in the cosmere through the Seventeenth Shard, correspondence, or other means. Among other facts, he knows that Hoid possesses a bead of [[lerasium]] from [[Scadrial]],{{epigraph ref|sa1|14}}{{wob ref|5483}} that [[Odium]] is trapped in the [[Rosharan system]],{{epigraph ref|sa2|69}} and that a gemstone of Hoid's (presumably the [[First Gem]]) is "dead".{{epigraph ref|sa2|60}} Despite the existence of the [[Silverlight Mercantile]] interplanetary postal service, this was not the method Hoid and Frost used to exchange letters, meaning that they had some other means of contacting one another.{{wob ref|12626}}
== Immortality ==
Frost's current mortality status is ambiguous. As a dragon, he is naturally ageless; immortal in the weak sense that he could live forever absent outside intervention. However, Hoid says "as you are '''now''' essentially immortal"{{epigraph ref|sa1|22}} (emphasis added), he must be immortal in ''some'' sense stronger than that.<!--{{wob ref|15673}}, but there's no reason to cite for this, it's literally basic logic.--> But contravening that, we also know that he still can be killed.{{wob ref|3074}}. So Frost is both sufficiently difficult to kill that Hoid would consider him "essentially immortal", but still possible to kill. What this means is not clear; the only known canon phenomenon compatible with it is Shardhood. That has not been strictly ruled out, but we know that Hoid communicates, in one of the known letters, to someone his age who is not a Shardholder{{wob ref|1664}}, and Frost is the probable identity of that correspondent. Other theories are difficult to pose and even harder to support.
==History==
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