Adonalsium'sSpren Posted March 30, 2020 Report Share Posted March 30, 2020 Hi! i would like to know the history origin and goals of hoid. Thank You! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 Honorless he/him Posted March 30, 2020 Report Share Posted March 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Adonalsium'sSpren said: Hi! i would like to know the history origin and goals of hoid. Thank You! We don't know much about Hoid. He's from Yolen. He knew the Vessels of the Shards of Adonalsium and was involved in the plot to kill Adonalsium alongside them. He has a form of immortality, as well as time dilation, and various pre-Shattering magic including a form of Lightweaving. He has access to Fortune, he can tell if he's going to be needed somewhere sometime. He goes around traveling the various Shardworlds, collecting magics. Hoid isn't his real name. He has many names like Cephandrius, Topaz, Lunu'anaki, Midius, etc You might want to check out his Coppermind page here: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Hoid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 Weltall Posted March 30, 2020 Report Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Karger said: He was also offered a shard at one point but turned it down. We don't know which one. To add to this, we don't know which one he was offered but it's one that we didn't know about as of the beginning of 2015. Quote The Only Joe (paraphrased) Was Hoid offered one of the Shards we know about? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) You know, I can't remember which Shards I've shown you, Wait, no I haven't shown you that one. Firefight Portland signing (Jan. 16, 2015) The only two that we've had confirmed since that WOB are Autonomy and Ambition, which makes it rather more likely than not that the Shard he was offered is one of the six that we haven't seen. Ambition/Uli Da doesn't sound like a last-minute swap (per Edgli, she seemed to get exactly the Shard that fit her) and I don't see Hoid and Autonomy fitting all that well. There's also room to argue whether or not Brandon had 'shown' us those Shards since we'd already gotten Shadows for Silence (and thus seen a bit of Ambition's influence) and Brandon had told us about Taldain and Bavadin even if we didn't know the name of her Shard. So it's a reasonably safe bet Hoid's offered Shard is one of the Secretive Six. Edited March 30, 2020 by Weltall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 Karger he/him Posted March 30, 2020 Report Share Posted March 30, 2020 He was also offered a shard at one point but turned it down. We don't know which one. The coppermind has a list of all confirmed appearances by him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Thomas_H he/him Posted March 31, 2020 Report Share Posted March 31, 2020 Dragonsteel prime has a bit about Hoid’s backstory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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