Is Fort from Tress a Kolos Blooded?

[Epicdaf]

Like the title suggests, could Fort, our loving quartermaster be a Kolos Blooded desendant from a Scadrian Worldhopper?
There seems to be hints on the text that he might, as he is described as being huge. I don't have the direct quotes though. 

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[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

1 hour ago, Epicdaf said:

Like the title suggests, could Fort, our loving quartermaster be a Kolos Blooded desendant from a Scadrian Worldhopper?
There seems to be hints on the text that he might, as he is described as being huge. I don't have the direct quotes though. 

From chapter 40:
 

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He was so big, Tress couldn’t help wondering if he was fully human—which was understandable, but all joking aside, Fort was a hundred percent human. Plus at least twenty percent of something else I haven’t been able to determine.

Hoid would definitely know if he was koloss blooded, so I'd say it's a confirmed no. He's just a big guy

[Treamayne]

22 hours ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

From chapter 40:
 

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He was so big, Tress couldn’t help wondering if he was fully human—which was understandable, but all joking aside, Fort was a hundred percent human. Plus at least twenty percent of something else I haven’t been able to determine.

Hoid would definitely know if he was koloss blooded, so I'd say it's a confirmed no. He's just a big guy

With the possible exception that this is a Hoid Misdirection TM
HoA Epigraph to Ch 40:

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Originally, we assumed that a koloss was a combination of two people into one. That was wrong. Koloss are not the melding of two people, but five, as evidenced by the four spikes needed to make them. Not five bodies, of course, but five souls.

So, his "+20%" could be an oblique reference to either Koloss Blooded or a similar phenomenon where he would have extra genetic traits due to lineage. The lack of altered skin hue (blueish or grayish) makes it unlikely to be Koloss Blooded specifically (or, at least, not First Generation such) - but that does not rule out <something>. 

[Belandrius Ohhmar He/Him]

I did not even think about that it would be cool but he would be a little more on the human side.

[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

1 hour ago, Treamayne said:

So, his "+20%" could be an oblique reference to either Koloss Blooded or a similar phenomenon where he would have extra genetic traits due to lineage. The lack of altered skin hue (blueish or grayish) makes it unlikely to be Koloss Blooded specifically (or, at least, not First Generation such) - but that does not rule out <something>.

I suppose that's possible, though from the tone I think Hoid's being serious about him being human, since he says "all joking aside". 

[Treamayne]

7 minutes ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

I suppose that's possible, though from the tone I think Hoid's being serious about him being human, since he says "all joking aside". 

Exactly my point - it was "not a joke" that Fort is 100% Human plus 20% (likely human as well, disguised as joke but actually qualified under "this is not a joke.")
It's not definitive, but it is possible - pending WoB or more data.

Since a Koloss was (roughly) 200% human (twisted through hemalurgy - 100% human plus four 25% human soul spikes) - if Fort were descended from Koloss Blooded heritage, then the full Koloss ancestor would have to be at least 3 generations back. Or it could be something else entirely. 

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

1 hour ago, Treamayne said:

Exactly my point - it was "not a joke" that Fort is 100% Human plus 20% (likely human as well, disguised as joke but actually qualified under "this is not a joke.")
It's not definitive, but it is possible - pending WoB or more data.

Since a Koloss was (roughly) 200% human (twisted through hemalurgy - 100% human plus four 25% human soul spikes) - if Fort were descended from Koloss Blooded heritage, then the full Koloss ancestor would have to be at least 3 generations back. Or it could be something else entirely. 

It is possible but I don't know why Hoid would misdirect us. Whether or not Fort is koloss-blooded doesn't seem like a big enough secret for Hoid to conceal.

[Treamayne]

27 minutes ago, SpartanBrigade said:

It is possible but I don't know why Hoid would misdirect us. Whether or not Fort is koloss-blooded doesn't seem like a big enough secret for Hoid to conceal.

It does not have to be about concealing anything - it can simply be that he was (most likely) telling the story to people on First of the Sun (minor Shardworld for Sixth of the Dusk*) - and it's unlikely the information would mean anything to them, so too much detail is confusing. From an author's perspective, Sanderson probably wanted the question open for theories and provided just enough detail for Realmatic fans to quirk and eyebrow while keeping the book as "stand alone" as possible (so readers do not require having read Mistborn before Tress).

*Implied by Tress Ch 24:

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I can understand why you would want tales of people like Linji, who tried to sail around the world with no Aviar.

Referencing a local myth implies the audience is from First of the Sun.