Help!

[Windrunner he/him]

I'm in the process of working on the Hoid article but there's a certain fact that I can't find in its original form. At one point we heard from Brandon that Hoid has "metal that he shouldn’t have". Needless to say that this has some pretty big implications, and a citation for it would be really nice. But I can't find the quote anywhere! I've heard that it's something Brandon said directly or maybe wrote in a book, but I'm trying to figure out where precisely we got this news from. Anyone who could give me a bit of help here would receive my eternal gratitude.

[Joe ST he/him]

the extra bead

other than that, google cant find anything interesting...

[FlashWrogan he/him]

So, Brandon. Hoid. I remember you saying at the I.F. signing last year that he was in WoA. We, your dedicated fans who like scouring books searching for obscure characters who have any possibility of being the mysterious Hoid, have yet to find him. Peter sent us on a hunt for him (Hoid, not Peter...) in the deleted scenes, and we found his boot-print.

Now, I think he broke the pottery there too--the one holding the larasium--and since there's broken pottery in the actual version, I think he may have snuck into the cavern and broken it as well. If so, is this Hoid's part in WoA? This trace of him? I commend you if it is. It is clever, making us think it was a person, when in fact it's just something he did.

You are on the right track, but wrong on one point. Hoid does appear in the book.

I had originally toyed with making his touch on the novel more obscure, but decided that I wanted to be consistent with the other novels by actually having him appear. Once I realized I’d probably cut the scene with the footprint, I decided I needed this actual appearance even more badly.

Fortunately, I knew what Hoid had been up to all this time, and had placed him in a position where several characters could run into him. In WoA, Hoid believed (as Vin did) that the Well was in the North, even though it was not. He spent much of the book pursuing this idea.

Through events, however, he discovered he was wrong. He made the realization after Vin did, but only because of a chance meeting. (This is recorded in the books. Let’s just say he was listening in when someone implied that the Well was in Luthadel.)

He hurried to Luthadel, and was in the town, skulking about in the last parts of the novel. He isn’t seen here, though he does still infiltrate the Well. (Hoid is quite proficient at manipulating Shadesmar for his own ends.)

Source

This is the only thing I could find relating to the issue aside from what Joe ST found, but the two combined suggest that Hoid took the bead of Lerasium, as he is the only one who had access to the Well aside from the Lord Ruler before the bead could have been discovered.

[Windrunner he/him]

Thanks Flash, I've seen that before and I understand what the two imply. I'm looking for that specific quote however. Joe tweeted at Peter who says it sounds right, so I think we're probably good. At least until we either find the original source or get confirmation one way or the other from Peter.