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The true nature of the entity known as 'Hoid' is unclear, he personally still identifies as a human and originally was born one.{{book ref|sa2|67}}{{wob ref|6614}}{{wob ref|2610}} Since then however the nature of Hoid has changed, while many would still identify him as a human others would argue that it is more 'complicated' than that.{{wob ref|6614}} Two reasons for this oddity are known, the first is the fact that Hoid predates the Shattering, and thus the radical changes it caused throughout the cosmere, as a result of this many of the Invested Arts behavingbehave oddly when interacting with him.{{wob ref|3212}} The second is the dramatic change to his [[spiritweb]] that holding a [[dawnshard]] caused in him,{{wob ref|14300}} this change is rare enough that no unified term exists to describe the changes that is caused within him, the transformation is also more extreme than what [[savant]]s and [[Steel Inquisitors]] undergo, though his changes bare similarities with the latter.{{wob ref|2669}}{{wob ref|2615}} While it is difficult to define what Hoid is it is well known what he is not. He is not a [[Herald]]{{wob ref|7190}}, [[Shard]],{{wob ref|6650}} nor a Vessel,{{wob ref|8843}}{{wob ref|10555}} he is not [[Adonalsium]], nor the weapon that killed them.{{wob ref|10826}} He is not a [[Sliver]],{{wob ref|4712}} a [[dragon]],{{wob ref|5096}} a founder of the [[Five Scholars]],{{wob ref|3622}} nor the oldest being in the Cosmere.{{wob ref|3083}} He is also not a group of people pretending to be one man,{{wob ref|2609}}{{wob ref|7250}} nor a mass delusion.{{wob ref|13223}} Whatever Hoid currently is, some consider it to make him one of the most powerful and dangerous non-Shard entities in the cosmere.{{wob ref|7323}}{{wob ref|2940}}{{wob ref|156}}

Prior to his usage of 'Hoid' as an alias 'Cephandius' was the most popular identity that Hoid worked under, while not his true name it is only a few decades off and closer to his 'real' self.{{wob ref|3985}}{{wob ref|10313}} This is one of his oldest and, atlongest therunning timeidentities, wasnotably hisit longest running identity beingis the one that the original vessels knew him under.{{wob ref|3985}}{{msh ref|2|1}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|33}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|42}}{{book ref|sa4|112}} Prior to his adoption of this identity however was that of 'Topaz.'{{wob ref|6065}} and with it the title of 'Bearer of the First Gem.'{{wob ref|13128}}{{wob ref|5301}}{{wob ref|14355}} Those involved in the Shattering also were aware of this term but use it infrequently, it was a nickname based of the Dawnshard that Hoid used to wield, for reasons unknown this Dawnshard was connected in some way to topaz and this granted Hoid the title 'Bearer of the First Gem.'{{wob ref|13128}}{{wob ref|5301}}{{wob ref|14355}} Despite this however Topaz is also not his true name.{{wob ref|10313}} An old colleague of Hoids who was involved in the Shattering, [[Frost]], mentions in a letter that he used to use the name of his old master as an alias, it is unknown if Frost was referring to the name 'Hoid,' 'Cephandius,' 'Topaz' or yet another identity when making this statement.{{epigraph ref|sa2|60}}