Shardfan17

It was mid 2008. I was a Senior in high school and dating a boy who was really into fantasy. He introduced me to Mistborn. I started reading out of girlfriendlyness obligation. I mosied through it VERY slowly; took months before I finished the first one. I am SO glad I finished it a month before we broke up, or I may have never gotten sucked into the Cosmere fandom. My now ex and I had pretty much every class together for the rest of the year. I think it annoyed him that I was now part of this tiny little following and I would read WoA during several of our classes together. It bugged him. I think I finished that book because I loved to see how irritated he got. Then I read HoA. I have never had my mind blown by a book before. This was the most amazing piece of literature I'd ever experienced (and it was totally an experience). However, I was too nervous to delve into the Cosmere at that point for fear that my love of the series might be tainted by anything less amazing than what I had previously read. My freshman year of college I got married to my husband and we attended a university dinner together. It was an awards ceremony for students who were being featured in the university publication of creative works. They gave out prizes and I won a copy of Elantris. I was unemployed and had no internet so, despite my previous feelings of wanting that first experience to remained untouched, I read Elantris. It was good. But I wasn't sold on the Cosmere as a whole yet. Flash forward to 2012, I borrowed my sister's copy of AoL, finally ready to delve into a new Mistborn adventure. If I remember right it took me 2 months and 3 tries to make it through the first 20 pages until you reach the hook. Aaah! Once I finished that first chapter, I could not pit it down. My husband saw how much I LOVED Alloy so he bought me WoK. He handed it to me with excitement and my face fell. I was really scared about trying to read this book. I'd never read anything this ambitious or large. I had a 10 month old at the time and didn't feel capable of doing it. I read it in less than a month. Since then I have been totally and fully invested in the Cosmere. It took awhile to be convinced of the Cosmere as a whole, but his individual stories were what got me to finally commit.

Okay just throwing in my two cents and stating first that it has been years since I've read Elantris or Mistborn so I'm just incredibly ignorant BUT when Rock met "someone" coming out of one of the pools of water I really don't think it was Hoid. Hoid was described in Shallan's memory as having dark hair and the man who came from the water had white hair like an Elantrian. Could it have been Galladon? I think it's someone from Elantris. PS I didn't read all the comments either so if someone already said this just ignore me.