Nohadon

oh, ok. so, how would large groups of people worldhop? i'm assuming that they just all take a perpendicularity in one group and just stay together till they get to whatever planet they choose to, but what would you think about theory (A) ? where the 17th shard can use devices that imitate a perpendicularity.

Wait, really? i'm not really familiar with worldhoppers so i read about it on the coppermind and it seemed to be a form of investiture akin to teleportation, i may have misinterpreted the article though. here's the link: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Worldhopping ( the first line says: "Worldhopping is an ability which is used to move from place to place in the Physical Realm instantaneously")

So it's commonly assumed that all the characters who cameo from other shardworlds are worldhoppers, yes? as we don't know where this power comes from, or how alot of it works, not every character we see cameoing in other books (Demoux, Gallod, Mraize, etc, etc) should be worldhoppers. What i think is actually happening is that only some of them are actual worldhoppers (hoid, nightblood and other important characters) but the others use either (A) a device that allows them to enter the cognitive or spiritual realm, as distance is different there, allowing them to go to different shardworlds (similar to how Jasnah's transportation surge works) or (B) that a worldhopper can take multiple people they are linked with (eg: touching them, or someone else who is touching them) and they only have a couple worldhoppers. if it does happen to be option (A) , that would explain why and how the 17th Shard can get to other shardworlds easily. Additionally, i think that worldhopping is orginally a yolen-based magic, although we see non-yolen's using it.

oh ok, if he is using feruchemy, he's probably using it for compounding, or he's using a (nicrosil? i think its nicrosil...) metalmind to store uncanny amounts of investiture. (as a random thought, if hoid had feruchemy all along, him compounding atium would explain how he ages slowly) outside influence? i know thats probs a WoB but what is that meant to mean? do you mean he is using the metalminds that can be used by anyone? that could be possible, like how anyone could use the bands of mourning.

the main focus of this theory is that hoid gained feruchemical powers without being born with them, yes? it's been shown in Wax & Wayne books (i think it was Shadows Of Self?) that hemalurgy can steal feruchemy, hoid could've spiked himself, allthough for complete feruchemy that would be 16 spikes, and by then hoid would easily be on Harmony's control (oh wait, its hoid) and when is it even shown that hoid is a feruchemist? we know he's a lerasium mistborn but we don't know about him ever using feruchemy...