Southpaw89 Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Any theories on where Brandon is taking Wit/Hoid in this series? At times he acts like he's just there for the ride, telling Kaladin stories to help him get through his struggles, but then at other times he seems incredibly calculating. Any theories on where Brandon is taking Wit in the later books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Do you know about Hoid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonedshaman Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Do you even hoid bro? 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Invested Beard Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Do you even hoid bro? Heh. Upvote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpaw89 Posted January 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 eh?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 Okay. How many (and which) Brandon's books have you read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoidhunter Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) So..."Wit" may be the single most important and mysterious character in the cosmere...more or less... Edited January 23, 2016 by hoidhunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Invested Beard Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 I don't know the future of wit, but I do know that the soul of wit is brevity. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 I don't think Hoid is going to become a major character in Stormlight, personally. It will probably turn out that his meddling set up some really major things (already, he encouraged Shallan when she was young and despondent, told Kaladin stories at pivotal times, did something when maybe-Taln showed up, and was waiting when Jasnah popped out of Shadesmar), but I don't think he'll play a very direct role in anything. On the other hand, while I would bet money on that being the case for SA 1-5, I wouldn't want to gamble on the back 5. I can see him persisting as an occasional cameo-type character, even then, but we know he's got to become very active eventually. It all depends on how the pacing turns out for the entire Cosmere mega-epic. I suspect that Hoid won't start showing up as a major player in stories' climaxes before people are showing up on alien Shardworlds in magic spaceships, but it would be cool if it doesn't take that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstSelector Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) Let's not forget that Hoid and Jasnah are going for a long walk as of the end of WoR. I personally think that Brandon is setting up Jasnah to be a big-time worldhopper following the end of the Stormlight Archive, and she wasn't overly flustered by Hoid revealing that he knew Tanavast, so I think that there's the possibility that he reveals some really important stuff to Jasnah. Also, there is some evidence to suggest that the end of the Stormlight Archive is contained in the two stories Hoid tells Kaladin. He also realizes that his "need to be" power brought him to Shallan, so I can only imagine that he's taking a more direct behind-the-scenes role than other books - in as much as that phrase makes sense. What does this mean? Well, I think Hoid probably knows how the whole "champion of Honor" mechanism works, and how to use it to back Odium into a corner. I think he also knows the whole history of Roshar, which is going to be really important. Given that Odium is taking a direct hand and that the protagonists are very far behind in the information game means that he'll have to start directly revealing what he knows. He's done this quite a bit already, and I think Brandon is setting him up so that despite knowing all of this stuff, he isn't the deus ex machina. He also is probably aware of all of the other cosmere-aware groups on Roshar for the same reason he is - this is likely the most important event in the cosmere right now. Important people from every other book are showing up on Roshar, presumably to either stop Odium or profit from his success. So, we'll probably see him dealing with Mraize and the Seventeenth Shard and everyone else who is there manipulating things. Edited January 26, 2016 by FirstSelector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeMarshall Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 I predict that hoid will play a sort-of important role in stormlight (he has played a more active role in it than he has in any other series). Not sure if he will become a major character in this series however. I am convinced that there will be a series with him as the main character though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstSelector Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 There is - Hoid is one of the main characters in Dragonsteel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamEternal Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 And on the Mistborn Space Age books, he will be a main character too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 And on the Mistborn Space Age books, he will be a main character too. Do we know that for sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruxer Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 Do we know that for sure? Confirmed: We have WOB on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 Sweet. I figured as much, since that's going to be pretty late in the super-series. Nice to know it's definitely happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottwo Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I think that Hoid wants to splinter Odium and kill Rayse. We don't know what he has against him, but Rayse didn't sound like a very savory person prior to becoming a Vessel. Again, that's from Hoid's perspective, however. I don't know how he'll do it, probably with the help of the KR and any other groups he can get to help him, but I think we'll see Odium splintered and Rayse dead at the end of Book X. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Please review this: http://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/bands-of-mourning-release-spoiler-policies-mi-r247 Only discuss Secret History in Secret History forum until February 9th. Relevant posts have been hidden and welcome to the moderation queue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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