Concept

So, I just got to read the story now, and I just wondered about the last bit, there are Daggon and Earnest sitting and drinking at the end and talking and then there's this bit: Am I supposed to know who this is? Is that just some kind of atmosphere-building-sentence without meaning? Because if it's the latter, it seems somehow ... absolutely irrelevant for the whole scene?

Ah, thanks for the help. I just read it with the wrong meaning. Happens sometimes, english isn't my first and not my best language and with Brandon, translating can be tricky sometimes

So I'm sorry for necromancing this thread, but there's something I wanted to ask and didn't want to make a new one in case it's a stupid question ... Everyone here seems to be saying Hoid got his tooth punched out to have a better costume. He made his hair fall out by sickness and supressing his healing abilities to truly look like a beggar, to have the truth in the lie of being a beggar. However, after the punching scene, there's also this line in the epiloque: So, he gets his tooth punched out. There's not a single line in the epiloque saying why. I just assumed, reading the epiloque and also reading here, that he did it for the costume. After all, even the little girl before "compliments" him on his strange teeth. It seems quite plausible he just did it for the costume. But why, if he could made his hair fall out by himself, couldn't he just do the same to his teeth? Make them rot and fall out like his hair? I could accept an answer like "Just Hoid being Hoid" or something. But if he did all of this for his costume, for a convincing lie to slip by the Fused and to take the Cryptic - why did he get his tooth punched out if no one is able to see it after all? "(...) exposed his teeth - but not the one that was missing, for that was impossible." Why is it impossible to expose the missing teeth? Because it's one at the back of the mouth which you wouldn't see unless you look directly into his mouth? Then, if it's impossible to expose that anyway, why having it punched out in the first place? I'm sure I'm reading to much into it and in the end, it's just Hoid being Hoid being serious but also silly most of the times, but maybe someone has an answer for that?