Difference between revisions of "Hoid"

Hoid has a home base somewhere in the cosmere,{{ref|17s ref|2383|post|42472|He has a home base.}} and he has a bead of [[lerasium]].{{ref|?|897|21|Well, he has a bead of Lerasium}}

Hoid is not the author of the Ars Arcanums, nor of the back-of-book blurb for [[Words of Radiance]].{{cite}} He occasionally will show up somewhere, stand around for a while, realize there isn't a novel-worthy plot going on, and leave.{{ref|17s ref|6439|post|104720|Hoid appears on planets where nothing happens}}

This blade is not [[Nightblood]].{{ref|17s ref|4156|post|65432|Is Hoid's sword in WoK Nightblood?}}

* Worldhopping - Hoid is very good at manipulating Shadesmar.{{ref|?|428|102|Hoid is quite proficient at manipulating Shadesmar for his own ends.}} He can travel to any world he likes, and can even use this ability to move swiftly around a single planet and to get to otherwise inaccessible areas, like the Well of Ascension.{{ref|17s ref|2383|post|42244|Well, by this point Hoid had been to the Well--getting there just before Vin--and had retrieved something from it.}}

* Dust{{bwsannotation ref|pre=Brandon says in the |Annotation-Warbreaker-Chapter-Thirty-Twowb|chapter=32|text=Warbreaker Chapter 32 annotation|post= that Hoid was using one of his favorite pseudonyms in the original draft, which was {{17s|1597|post=27862|Dust}}|.}}

In the epigraphs in Part 2 of The Way of Kings, there is the text of a [[letters|letter]]. Both its author and recipient are unknown. This letter refers to all the original Shardholders by their names and begs the recipient for aid in the struggle against [[Rayse]], holder of the Shard [[Odium]]. If Hoid wrote this letter, it offers valuable insights into his personality and goals. The author of the Letter is being hunted by the Seventeenth Shard and has set a false trail for them to follow. This provides strong evidence that the author of the Letter is Hoid, as he is being hunted in an area far from where he really is by three men who are probably from the Seventeenth Shard. It is confirmed that we "may have read that Hoid has specific beef with Rayse." As for only the Letter tells about Hoid having a grudge against Rayse this can be seen as an acknowledgement that Hoid wrote the Letter.{{ref|17s ref|3099|post|50695|text=Hoid has a specific beef against Rayse.}}

The names of the [[Worldsingers]], a group of storytellers on Roshar, and the Conclave of [[Worldbringers]], the leading body of the original [[Terris]] religion, are strikingly similar. Brandon has stated that this is not a coincidence.{{ref|17s ref|1308|post|22043|Mi'ch was telling me that Brandon said that their similarity in names wasn't a coincidence.}} Some believe that Hoid is a common root to both of these organizations, one of which, the Worldbringers, was very [[Realmatic Theory|Realmatically]] aware.{{ref|17s ref|2383|post|42471|Realmatic theory was part of the ancient Terris religion.}}

We know that aside from the beads of [[lerasium]] burned by the original nine [[Allomancy|Allomancers]] and [[Elend]] there is at least one more other bead somewhere in the cosmere.{{ref|?|732|1|And at least one more.}} We know that Hoid was at the well prior to [[Vin]] and Elend arriving there.{{ref|17s ref|2383|post|42244|Well, by this point Hoid had been to the Well--getting there just before Vin--and had retrieved something from it.}} Also, Hoid has "metal he isn't supposed to have".{{ref|17s ref|1389|post|24231|Hoid has metal he isn't supposed to have}} Hoid has also been confirmed to have retrieved something from the Well.{{ref|17s ref|2383|post|42244}} Combining all these facts heavily hint that Hoid is in possession of a bead of lerasium.

* The character of Hoid existed before the concept of Adonalsium was developed. He first appeared in a short story Brandon wrote long ago. He was on a planet trying to figure out how the magical system of the area worked.{{ref|17s ref|2383|post|42219|Hoid has been around forever, long before Adonalsium became the central plot of his story.}}

*Brandon may eventually write a parallel novel to the Mistborn series that chronicles what Hoid was up to behind the scenes.{{ref|17s ref|2383|post|42244}}