Hoed
The Hoed are a group of post-Reod Elantrians that have accumulated so many injuries that they become effectively comatose from the pain.[1]
After the Reod, the Elantrian people stopped self-healing and so any injuries, however minor, never stopped causing them pain. Since the Elantrians stayed immortal, some sank beneath the weight of the their pain, losing their minds, staying mostly at the same place and a lot of them always mumbled their own mantra.[1]
Raoden collects the hoed together in a building in New Elantris, which they called the Hall of the Fallen,[2] where they are cared for.[3] Raoden, too, is not immune to it.
“"Failed..." Raoden whispered. "Failed my love..." The mantra of the fallen; Raoden had joined the Hoed.”
—[4]
The Hoed can be relieved from their pain by being taken to Aonas Shardpool which vaporizes their bodies.[2][4]
It is not stated what happens to them when the Aon is remade.
The word "hoed" is based off the Aon "Oed".[5]
Notes
- ↑ a b Elantris chapter 4#
- ↑ a b Elantris chapter 25#
- ↑ Elantris chapter 19#
- ↑ a b Elantris chapter 60#
- ↑ Broken reference - Missing date declaration: Is the word Hoed based off an Aon and if so which one?
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