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I've been thinking that maybe all of the Teris are Hoid's descendants. He's old enough. There's the seeming connection between worldsingers and worldbringers. And, most compelling, he's a feruchemist. Of course, he could gain that power some other way, but I think there's at least a chance that he's the origin of that magic system on Scadrial. It's been confirmed that at least some Feruchemy involves a manipulation of the Higgs mechanism, which sent me down this rabbit trail thinking that maybe Feruchemists control bosons, while Allomancers control fermions (Fermions are responsible for the Pauli Exclusion which in turn is responsible for observable magnetism in metals). Photons are bosons, which means there's a good chance that Lightweaving involves some sort of manipulation of the Higgs field. So . . . I'm proposing that whatever genetic potential allowed lightweaving on Yolen either evolved or was somehow mastered to become Feruchemy on Scadrial. Any thoughts??

In the WoA novel this epigraph transpires. Now I've just noticed the bit about Anticipation and how it fits in the text, sounding somewhat like a shard, so I thought that it was some nonsense already discussed and debunked on some forums yet after some surfing i found nothing on the topic. If this was indeed a new shard then in my mind it was somehow connected to the worldbringers, wordsingers, etc. groups. I'm curious what the scholars on this forum now about this, if it's relevant in any way or if it has been disused. "As the one who found Alendi, however, I became someone important. Foremost amongst the Wordbringers. There was a place for me in the lore of the Anticipation—I thought myself the Holy Witness, the prophet foretold to discover the Hero of Ages. Renouncing Alendi then would have been to renounce my new position, my acceptance, by the others. "

A very kind 17th sharder (shout out to ParadoxSpren) exposed me to some really interesting information to my theory of Hoid causing the Shaod/Reod that has me thinking about Hoid's meddling in the cosmere. ParadoxSpren directed me to some WoB which give some interesting information about Hoid’s involvement on Sel from the following Words of Brandon: So, a group of storytellers went around Arelon telling everyone about the Elantrians and their magic. As time went on, they collected stories and histories of the people in the land and passed this information along through scholarship. It seems Hoid was involved on Sel long before the events of the book Elantris. Aon Ene represents “wit,” which is a name Hoid uses on Roshar. (as an aside, “Ene” is a palindrome, symmetrical and possibly even Vorin in nature). Following this clue to Roshar, we find that another group similar to the Enefels, known as the Worldsingers, which engaged in very similar behaviors, with whom Hoid has interacted: On Scadrial, the Worldbringers were spiritual leaders of the Terris people, using their copperminds to store information about the past including histories, philosophies, and religions. For some reason, the Lord Ruler felt it necessary to destroy this group – hunting down their successors the Keepers (see The Well of Ascension Chapter 4). An admin on 17th Shard said that the similarities between the names of Worldbringers and Worldsingers was not a coincidence, so we could assume Hoid had involvement on Scadrial prior to the events of the first Mistborn Trilogy too. On Nathlis, we see Hoid as a storyteller with information about the history of the nations of Idris and Hallandren (Warbreaker chapter 32), though whether or not he was the influence behind a guild of storytellers or not is not revealed. My point is this: Why would Hoid invest (pun intented) so much of his time and resources in making sure that humans on these shardworlds were aware of past histories and stories? Perhaps as a way to promote awareness of the shards' existence? I wonder if this was one of his first "intervention" strategies following the shattering. Perhaps this led to some of the chaos that the second letter references: It seems to me that Hoid was originally dedicated to encouraging humans on various planets to be aware of stories of the past, of histories, of the magic that existed. Perhaps this was his first attempt at intervening in the cosmere, but because it didn't accomplish what he wanted it to (or because of the chaos it caused), his plans have changed. Now, it seems like he's more directly involved in things, l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶h̶a̶o̶d̶/̶R̶a̶o̶d,or taking the bead of Lerasium, or involving himself with the Knights Radiant on Roshar. What are your thoughts?