Mason Wheeler Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 (edited) In chapter 55 of Words of Radiance, when Kaladin gets fed up enough with Wit to snark back at him, Hoid laughs and says, "so you do have some spark of wit in you." The next paragraph says it came from Kaladin's mother, that she had been the witty one in the family, but never quite as snarky as he was being right now, and he thinks that that being around Wit is corrupting him. What if this is literal? Theory: Kaladin has "some spark of Wit" in him, and it came from his mother, because she is a direct descendant of Hoid. He's certainly been around long enough to have been one of her ancestors at some point. (Heck, with the way he keeps hopping in and out of different worlds throughout the ages, he almost certainly had the opportunity to have been more than one of her ancestors!) Has this theory been suggested before? Edited February 28, 2016 by Mason Wheeler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King's Twit he/him Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 (edited) That would mean that Kaladin would have some latent Feruchemy and probably Allomancy in his sDNA, which has some exciting implications, but I think Hoid is too much of an anomaly, too far gone from being a normal human at this point, for there to not be something obviously distinguishing about his descendents. Unless its super far back, but then the Hoid-DNA would probably be so diluted that there wouldn't really be anything particularly special about being his descendent. Edited February 28, 2016 by King's Twit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Star Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Confirmed: Hoid is the Genghis Khan of the cosmere. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndigoAjah he/him Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Hoid implies that he is not interested in Shallan based on age and notes only one woman (Cultivation's holder) is his age on Roshar. Though the theory and implications are interesting, I can't see Hoid having a mayfly romance with a human Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mason Wheeler Posted February 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 Hoid implies that he is not interested in Shallan based on age ...while in character as Wit, a court jester who snarks caustically about anything and everything. So it's difficult to say for sure if this is true, or just him saying so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vander Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 ...while in character as Wit, a court jester who snarks caustically about anything and everything. So it's difficult to say for sure if this is true, or just him saying so. In all truth, I feel like he's not really "masking" there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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