hoid's plan

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

has brandon given any clues as to what hoid's plan in the end will be?

[alder24]

6 hours ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

has brandon given any clues as to what hoid's plan in the end will be?

No, that's a big RAFO. We know he regrets something he has done in the past, he will be a main character in Mistborn Era 4 and in Dragonsteel and that's probably most that we know of. His current main goal is to keep Odium imprisoned, but judging by his actions in all books, he interferes a lot in all worlds when very important stuff is happening - like on Scadrial. I doubt he's just there to witness a story worth telling or get some new powers. 

Spoiler

The Chaos Geek

Is there a plan for a book focusing on Hoid or will he always remain an enigma?

Brandon Sanderson

The final Mistborn sequence will have him as a main character, as will the Dragonsteel prequel novels.

#SandersonChat Twitter Q&A with Audible.com (Feb. 4, 2016)

 

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Questioner

...Is there anything in [Hoid]'s past that he regrets that he did? An action that he made that he, like, regrets.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

Oathbringer release party (Nov. 13, 2017)

 

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

It doesn't seem like we're gonna get a whole lot. We know that when Brandon writes Hoid's story, he's going to be writing his backstory, and not something happening in space age Cosmere. Like Alder said, he will appear in later books, but there's no way to know what he'll be doing.

We do know from SP4 and Dawnshard

Spoiler

Apparently he saves the Cosmere at some point after SA4 through means involving the dawnshard Nomad held, but we know nothing at all about what happened.

I think the most info we'll get for a while will be with the release of SA5

[+Lewis Nethur He/Him]

Well, let's list what we know about him and try to speculate based on observation thus far:

1.  He declined to take up a Shard even though it's more or less confirmed he could have taken one for himself. I take this to mean he values personal liberty above all else. This implies that the creation and preservation of life, as well as dominion over others, are likely not his goal.

2.  He seems to go where needed when he's needed to prevent massive conquering of planets by "corrupt" investiture. This implies to me that the thing he regrets is failing to do that once in the past.

3.  He can travel anywhere and leverage almost any magic system. This implies to me that he is, though it pains me to say, likely obsessed to some degree with increasing his own power and resilience.

 

So, I would opine that Hoid's plan, if it can be so called, is to prevent eruptions of corrupt investiture by reactively responding to uprisings of red-eyed beings throughout the cosmere while sampling and incorporating any and all magic that won't damage or weaken his soul that he can, most likely because of how Yolen will be revealed to have been destroyed, infected, conquered, or irreparably changed before he fled it. Maybe he wants to find a way to heal the damage too...