Which Shardworld Has The Most WorldHoppers Born on it?

[MightyLemur]

Out of all the known worldhoppers, which shardworld have the majority of them been born on. My first thought turns to Nalthis, but I feel like I'm missing something.

[Honorless he/him]

Probably Yolen

[Quantus he/him]

Roshar has a history of Elscalling, so they probably have the easiest access to Shadesmar, but by the same virtue they will struggle a lot more to actually leave and worldhop.

Nalthis has an established trade route, but we dont actually know how CR access works (if it's a Breath Command or still a shardpool, etc) to know how easy/common it actually is.

Sel is my vote of the ones we've seen.  Theoretically every member of the Ire was born on Sel, and thats the largest group of worldhoppers with a single origin we know of.  

6 hours ago, Honorless said:

Probably Yolen

I think we have a winner, unless we are asking about current worldhoppers.  Im curious how the Yolen population fares these dates.

[Chasmgoat he/him]

does Silverlight count?

I think most people there are worldhoppers...

[Frustration he/him]

2 hours ago, Chasmgoat said:

does Silverlight count?

I think most people there are worldhoppers...

Considering it's literally in the cognitive realm then yes they are.

Of the ones we've seen Sel, which is ironic given how difficult it is to get off Sel, in total, probably Nalthis. 

[Weltall]

A quick and dirty calculation of worldhoppers by planet.

Sel: Lots. We know the expedition sent out with the Connection orb numbered twenty (five Ire and fifteen soldiers) and the total number is considerably greater than that. We also have Riino (another Ire member) and Galladon who's in the Seventeenth Shard. So call that 22+.

Scadrial: 3 known (Demoux, Aslydin and Felt) and 1 questionable (Lemex's nurse in Warbreaker is confirmed to be a Terriswoman who may or may not be Aslydin)

Nalthis: 5 known (Vasher, Shashara, Denth, Vivenna and Nightblood) and 2 questionable (we don't know whether Arsteel and Yesteel ever left Nalthis but they would at least be aware other worlds exist from the other three Scholars)

Roshar: 1 known (Mraize)

Threnody: 1 known (Nazh)

Taldain: 2 known (Khriss and Baon)

Silverlight: 1 known (Iyatil, who was born there even though she can trace her ancestry to Scadrial)

Yolen: 17 known (the sixteen Vessels plus Hoid) and an unknown number of others including shapeshifted dragons.

There are also unknown numbers of people who are at least aware of other worlds but who may or may not have actually visited them, since we know interplanetary commerce flowed through Scadrial (Felt was aware of it during the events of MB1 for example) and Nalthis has Cosmere Customs that you can go through, so whoever runs that knows more of the big picture even if they've never left Nalthis' Cognitive region themselves. We also have the Ones Above but we can't definitively place them right now.

So in terms of known worldhoppers numerically, Sel is on top right now by virtue of the Ire being a large enough group to beat out everyone else by a considerable margin. Nalthis is worldhopper-friendly and might boast a larger number than we know of but it kind of sounds more like somewhere you go for a nice vacation  I included Iyatil because we know of her but I'm discounting Silverlight since it's not a shardworld per se and while they all know about other worlds because the population is diverse we also know that people can be born there, live their entire lives and die without ever traveling to other worlds. So I'm giving the nod to Sel right now, with the caveat that if we include it there are possibly more people from Silverlight (who do worldhop) in total but we can't quantify that right now.

Edited November 6, 2020 by Weltall

[Toaster Retribution he/him]

Presumably one of them. 

No, but seriously, if we go by Worldhoppers we know the names and identities of, probably Scadrial. We have Demoux, Felt, Aslydin, WalDo the Worldhopping Kandra, and, by cultural heritage, Iyatil. There are also a couple suspected worldhoppers who could be Scadrian.

Edit: Storms, how could I forget Nalthis???

Edited November 6, 2020 by Toaster Retribution

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

Yolen.

Followed by Ashyn, depending on what we mean by worldhopping. 

Spoiler

As a good chunk of the population emigrated to Roshar.

Next is Sel, as the Ire have quite a few members.

Scadrial, based on what we know: Demoux, Felt, two people based on the 17th Shard, at least two different Terris people, Iyatil’s ancestors, at least one Kandra, and possibly Kell. So... a lot.

Nalthis: we know of six worldhoppers. The five scholars and 

Spoiler

Vivenna.

Roshar. We actually don’t know of many Roshar-born worldhoppers. If you’re LOOKING for worldhoppers though...