Demoux and the Hunt for Hoid

[Ralph Elorim]

It appears that somewhere along the way I missed that one of the men searching for Hoid in the Purelake is actually Demoux. Can someone tell me how he became a Worldhopper and ended up on Roshar?

[Kidpen he/him]

Believe me, we would also all like to know. Presumable something after the Catacendre, but we have about as much knowledge as you do.

https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?tags=demoux

That is everything we know. A couple are more relevant than the rest. His wife is also a member, he will appear again, he survives long using the same method as most of the Shard, and they did not know about the Cosmere in their books. 

Edited April 27, 2018 by Kidpen

[StanLemon]

I have a personal hypothesis that after Kelsier was revived he brought Demoux into the fold and eventually Demoux joined the 17Shard

[Calderis he/him]

Because of this WoB, 

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In The Hero of Ages, Demoux gets together with a woman named Aslydin. He's then seen on Roshar in The Way of Kings. Knowing how loyal Demoux is, he wouldn't just leave Aslydin behind like that. Is she connected to his reasons for becoming a member of the Seventeenth Shard?

Brandon Sanderson

Aslydin is in the Seventeeth Shard, and had her own work to be about. I've given subtle clues about her before, but the ethnicity of the name should strike you.

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I've always thought that she's the reason he joined. 

If there is something striking about the ethnicity of the name, then it's most likely not a Terris name. So I think her parents were somewhat Cosmere aware, and possibly worldhoppers themselves. 

[+robardin he/him]

1 hour ago, Calderis said:

Because of this WoB, 

I've always thought that she's the reason he joined. 

If there is something striking about the ethnicity of the name, then it's most likely not a Terris name. So I think her parents were somewhat Cosmere aware, and possibly worldhoppers themselves. 

I dunno. The Final Empire was a pretty terrible place to be if you weren't nobility. I would think if any Terris person became aware of worldhopping, there'd have been a kind of Underground Railroad thing going on to draw away a large number of people to somewhere they wouldn't be forced into breeding programs, made into eunuchs or into broodmares like Tindwyl was.

[king of nowhere]

Aslydin sounds pretty terris to me. Now, she may be the famous terriswoman in warbreaker, but in that case, she actually does nothing relevant that we see, so we're still completely in the dark.

[DeTess she/her]

On 27/04/2018 at 8:46 PM, king of nowhere said:

Aslydin sounds pretty terris to me. Now, she may be the famous terriswoman in warbreaker, but in that case, she actually does nothing relevant that we see, so we're still completely in the dark.

The name doesn't sound Terris to me at all. The -din suffix in particular suggests a Rosharan origin to the name. Terris names do use the 'in' sound in the end of the name at times, but in those cases it's usually something like -wyn, with the 'y' instead of the 'i'. The fact that Brandon even highlighted the fact that the ethnicity of the name is off suggests that it's probably offworld, with -din suggesting Rohsar.

Edited April 30, 2018 by randuir