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Hoid appears again later on in the book at the very same time as [[Taln]], a [[Herald]], who breaks through the gates of [[Kholinar]] and falls unconscious after declaring that the [[True Desolation]] is imminent.{{ref|b|twok|epilogue}}
In the first Interlude, Ishikk, a man from the Purelake, spends six months being paid by three men to ask around the area after Hoid. These three men are [[Galladon]], [[Demoux]], and a third man from a book that has not been published, referred to as Vao or Blunt. These men are confirmed to be members of the Seventeenth Shard.
Also in a flashback 5 and a half years ago from Shallan, Shallan meets Wit, who is disguised as a
==Appearance & Personality==
* Feruchemy - Hoid also has access to at least one of the Three Metallic Arts native to Scadrial.{{ref|?|895|2|How does Hoid know where to go?}}
* Limited foresight - Hoid knows where he needs to go and when he needs to be there.{{ref|?|689|4|How does Hoid know where to go when?}} Feruchemy is somehow involved in this ability.{{ref|?|895|2|How does Hoid know where to go?}}
* Extremely long life and time dilation{{ref|?|622|106|Can Hoid jump through time?}} - Hoid is far older then any human could really live
*Awakening - Hoid likely has a [[Breath]], something that a scene in Words of Radiance seems to confirm, as he mentions how playing an instrument was easier now with 'perfect pitch' - something granted to those with the Second Heightening.{{ref|?|949|11|It seems quite likely that he would.}}
{{quote|Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them—yet wholly unlike them at the same time?
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“I wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian [[Aimian]]. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.|Hoid to Dalinar (after namedropping Adonalsium){{ref|b|twok|c|54}}}}
{{quote|I’ve abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I’ll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice—or if you must, you may call me Hoid.|Hoid to Dalinar{{ref|b|twok|c|54}}}}
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