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What all abilities does Hoid have?


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Hello everyone, I'm wondering if we have a consolidated list of Hoid's abilities we have seen till now. The only ones I can think of are

1. Allomancy: Stealing the Lerasium (WoA), Interacting with Shallan (WoR)
2. Feruchemy: WoB 
3. Lightweaving: Stormlight Archive (during narrating story to Kaladin)

Do we have evidence of him having or using any other abilities like Breath or Dor?

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One thing that just came up so it isn't reflected in the article yet is that there's now some uncertainty over how Hoid's plot-detection sense works. Early on he said it was an 'unknown application of Feruchemy' which we assume to mean chromium (storing 'Fortune') but Brandon recently said that Hoid could be using something with the same underlying principle without it actually being Feruchemy that he's using, so that one's now a question mark and could be a Yolish antecedent or some other magic system.

Hoid also obtained the Moon Scepter during the events of The Emperor's Soul, which Brandon has described as the 'Selish Investiture Rosetta Stone', letting you translate the different symbols from one system of magic on that world into the equivalent from another system and understand what they mean. We don't know exactly how that works but it makes it clear that Hoid is still interested in Selish magic even after trying and failing to become an Elantrian. Brandon also implied that the Scepter would make it slightly easier to use Selish magic offworld though it apparently isn't a magic wand to solve all the associated problems by itself. He's leaving the rest as an exercise for us and/or the Elantris sequels.

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