Aluminum Spikes w/ Hoid

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

I think this should be in the mistborn section, but who knows. It has hoid.

So: If you spiked Hoid with aluminum (however it works, that's a discussion for a different thread. lets just say you have an aluminum spike that blocks ALL powers and abilities) and then killed him, would he regen? Could he regen? Would that body specifically beb blocked? If you had 2 hoid bodies (both aliveish and fresh) and spiked the living one (also bigger one) and then killed it, would he regen in the other one? Would it not work? If you spiked all his bodies, would that actually kill him? What if a year later, you unspike them? Would he come back to life? Would he be a cognitive shadow in the meantime? So many questions.

[Duxredux he/him]

Good call on putting this in the general discussion. As you said, it's about Hoid.

Hoid in many respects is an anomaly and doesn't play nicely with the rules. It's well worth noting his response to Jasnah pointing a Shardblade at him. 

"I'd be surprised if that little knife of yours poses me any real threat, Kholin. You can keep waviing about you if you want, though. Perhaps it makes you feel more important."

Apparently even a weapon capable of cutting on all three Realms is trivial to Hoid - despite Nomad's note when equipping Elegy with Aux in TSM that "Cuts from weapons like that are storming tough to heal." Another former Dawnshard that held the same power as Hoid still doesn't like getting hit with a Shardblade.

 

So... was Hoid bluffing? Does he have abilities beyond what we saw? He's one of the most realmatically aware people we know, yet he doesn't seem particularly worried around aluminum, even being willing to drive one of the vehicles for Marasi's sting operation against the Set in TLM who have both Aluminum and have at least a working knowledge of Hemalurgy. In TotES, Ulaam notes that even in Wit's cursed state that the Sorceress would be unable to kill Hoid, and she certainly has access to Aluminum, Silver, and AonDor.

All in all... I'm guessing that Aluminum spikes won't particularly inconvenience Hoid. Now I don't know if that is because he already has contingencies in place or if he's simply that resilient, but either way I suspect that the majority of the Cosmere would have a hard time testing any of your questions.