tipbruley Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Reposting in the Stormlight Archive section The letter was Addressed to HOID Here is what could have happened The person who wrote the letter killed Rayse and became Odium. After thousands of years Odium has corrupted the writter of the letter, and he now is as bad as Rayse was. Hoid is now here to stop his friend. The 17th shard are members that seek to protect shardbearers from being destroyed (or something similiar) and now hunt Hoid. WHY I think this makes sense. The letter sounds like the events in Elantris had just happened, but we know Elantris was thousands of years before the events of the WoK. The letter is written by someone determined to stop Rayse, but from what we see of Hoid he seems like someone who doesn't like interfering with things. I need to look up the quote later but he tells Kaladin that he is here to "See an Old Friend, but has been putting it off". From the letter, the writer said he never liked Rayse, so I am not sure why he would reference Rayse as a friend, but it makes perfect sense for Hoid to reference the writer like that. There is also the question as to why the desolations stopped happening for so long of a time which is answered by this theory. Does anyone else agree with is?
Chaos he/him Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I believe General Theories is the proper place for this (there shouldn't be spoilers for, say, Elantris in SA forums), and that topics shouldn't be posted in multiple forums. Topic closed. Every can look at the topic here: Thank you.
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