Who is the smartest scholar?

[Ookla the Invariably Tired]

This could be from anywhere in the cosmere, and I use scholar very loosely here, though some characters feel obviously, so maybe I should separate it into categories. 

I guess the various categories would be shards, non ascended immortals/extremely long lived individuals (I think this would include Heralds and returned though I may be using the term ascended incorrectly), and then mortals with normal life spans.

Why do you guys think? Who is the most intelligent in each category?

[Treamayne]

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4 hours ago, Thalydon said:

This could be from anywhere in the cosmere, and I use scholar very loosely here, though some characters feel obviously, so maybe I should separate it into categories. 

I guess the various categories would be shards, non ascended immortals/extremely long lived individuals (I think this would include Heralds and returned though I may be using the term ascended incorrectly), and then mortals with normal life spans.

Why do you guys think? Who is the most intelligent in each category?

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That said, this very much depends on the definition of Scholar being used. Hoid probably knows the most of any non-Shard Vessel, by sheer breadth of time and experience (Though Frost and Xisis/Foil would be in the same category - age-wise). Foil is actually a Cosmere scholar - and may be above Hoid in theis respect. Khrissalla writes the in-world Ars Arcanums for each series/book and also knows quite a bit. We don't have names for many of the Ire Scholars from Sel, but in M:SH they "know things" they refuse to share with Khriss at that time. We also have Vasher, one of the Nalthian Five Scholars on the lower end of the curve in age and experience (but still well above non-worldhopping scholars).

The trouble with comparisons is that many of these in the list are not directly comparable to each other - and many likely know at least something that the others do not.

Hope that helps.