greyFlint

Well I don't have a quote for this, but I remember that Odium was trapped on Roshar and could not flee. His righteous wrath that comes with the shard pushes him to destroy the other shards, as we have seen on Sel and Roshar. This wrath old then drive him to the other systems of the Cosmere. However, what if as a means to an end, he also wanted to invest himself in the hole, which is what you brought up. The investing into a black hole could be a secondary goal that he has.

I'm pretty sure they only change once right?

@Rob Lucci that could be one of the reasons that Odium so desperately wants to escape from Roshar (other that the obvious conclusion that he has it out for the other shards), and it is one that I didn't think about.

Thanks @Extesian and @Pattern ! @Shqueeves you are right that there is only a three hundered year difference between the eras, that was my mistake. On the note that you have to be very close to the black hole, I believe that it is not so. However, all of you are right in that it might be a little too overcomplicated for the cosmere..... but who knows!

Hey, first post, but I generally have had many discussions about the Cosmere before, and this is one of the more complicated possibilities that I have been working on. This is about the timeline of the books the difference in time between the first and second Mistborn era and an explanation for how Worldhoppers appear in different worlds that are hundereds of years apart. Before Mistborn era one, we have no real concise time slot for which each novel is separated by (with the exceition of the knowledge that it is probably thousands of years between white sands and Stormlight), either because they are consisting of only one or two books, or bc it isnt that important to the story. However, starting with the final empire a timeline is given, in that between the ascension of Sazed and the beginning of the Wax and Wayne era, about 1000 years have passed. In this period, the current Stormlight Archive and Warbreaker series fit. Knowing this, we can say that Hoid definitely lives longer than a normal human, but those humans that are now a part of the 17th shard, I find it hard to fathom that they are also near immortal as well that they can live for 1000s of years. Therefore it is possible that the time experienced by each system is different, which can be explained by the existence of a black hole near in the dwarf galaxy that each planetary system is in. The Theory of Relativity states that objects containing more mass cause greater distortions in spacetime, which causes the time experienced near the object to move slower that time farther away from the object. By having the Scadrial system be further out from the black hole, many thousands of years can pass for them, while only 40 or other small number of years would have passed. Not only that, but if we place our point of reference (earth POV) from a position that is less affected by the gravity of a supermassive object, then the canonized time that will probably be thousands of years long will be correct from an unwarped spacetime point of view. This reasoning can explain why Hoid so conveniently appears in every story appearing near the heart of the action. If he had been so close to action in the Scadrial system in the 1000 years between era one and two, a book or short story would have been made at least detailing his involvement. However, it appears that he had little involvement in any of the significant events that happened up until the Wax and Wayne novels, so maybe it was a thousand years for the Scadrial system but it was somewhere along the lines of 100 years instead. This theory is still very incomplete, so tell me if I missed something, thanks!